Everyone can experience Heaven right here on Earth if they choose to. Simply put, Heaven is what you make of it. In fact, according to him, the “momentary beam of light” that we encounter throughout our lives on Earth could be equivalent to Heaven itself. The narrator believes that Heaven is not just restricted to a place in the afterlife. Actually according to the Bible’s John 3:16, it states that God’s son was born on Earth for people to believe and have eternal life. In rubbishing this, the narrator uses the third verse to make a thought-provoking statement when he asks if life would even matter if you had the ability to live forever. However, during near-death experiences faced, the narrator has not seen nor heard what the Bible preaches. When death strikes, it is believed that those who believe will “ hear the voice of the Son of God” (John 5:25). What this simply means is that those who do not believe in God shall be sent to Hell in the afterlife. Being of a Christian background, I will be bringing references from the Bible in this article.Īs per Revelations 21:8, it says that upon dying, “ the faithless” will receive a second death by being cast into “the lake that burns with fire and sulfur”. The idea of Hell is present in many religions from as far back as the Roman and Greek mythology to Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and many others. In this case, “ beneath the earth” is presumably Hell. It can be assumed that throughout his life he has been faithless and vocal against religion, which made the religious people around him to predict that his “ end will be torture beneath the earth”. Growing up, the narrator probably had friends or acquaintances who were religious followers. “Sure it’s a calming notion, perpetual in motionįor I have seen the ending and there is no ascending rise” Hell and Heaven This implies that what religion offers is basically feeding off people’s fear of the unknown and telling religious followers what they would want to hear for comfort, which are nothing but lies. They agree religion is a “ calming notion” but they don’t “ need the comfort of any lies”. However, in this song, The Rare Occasions have a problem with that. The thought of knowing that there’s someone bigger, looking out for you and will answer your prayers if only you ask is bound to be a good thing.
Religion is known to offer people comfort especially in desperate times. With that said, “Notion” speaks about how religion is a lie and how restrictive it can make a person’s life.
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