Arnold Schwarzenegger said
That seems kind of gay. The Carnival should be the devil. Then it would actually be cool.  

Make your own imaginary circus story up, peddle it for 10 years then you can end it however you want. The twist can be that it was the big scary devil all along.

God is great may you all one day find him last year he was in Afghanistan serving turkey to patriots on this very day.

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It wasn't always God..  from this MEC interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20031206004057/http://www.realjuggalos.com/kzoo/blue/Interviews/mec3.php

"I just heard "Homies" and "Thy Bridge" thats it....I'm not im going to front. It sounds like something my parents would have liked. It sounds like it could be Zug Izland or some Violent J solo stuff. There is more singing and guitar. .I'm not crazy about all that singin & shit on ICP records. It sounds religious."

So between 2001 when mike left and 2002 they adapted the carnival is God thing.. remember it was ment to be the dark carnival?

Noawareness said
I remember getting off a night shift and rushing home to sit on their website, refreshing the main page over and over for hours because they were releasing/leaking the first "single" from the Wraith, that day (when they used to say they'd do something and actually do it). 

Sat for hours man. I got so bored. Then it was there. Crossing Thy Bridge. Took me about 15 mins to download and I was fucking pissed. I can't even tell you how whack I thought that song was. Terrible choice for a first single/teaser. 

I quite like that song in the context of the album but back then I couldn't beleive what I was hearing. If I wasn't so deep into it, at that point, I would have been fully out.   

One of my favorite songs by them, ever. Anything where they question God and/or the people that claim to serve him, as in "Hellaleujah", is gold to me. However, I musically don't dig "Where's God?", despite approving it's intention. 

Anyways, I also have memories of those two singles. Downloading them when I still lived at my dad's house, sitting by the computer. I love the song, but I also felt a sort of system shock upon hearing it. It was a completely different vibe than just about anything they'd released.

It's just the way it was handled was bad, they've obviously had a running theme that the joker cards judge you when you die and send you to either heaven or hell but straight out saying the carnival is God when it was always billed as the place where you go to be judged? And I don't want to get into the "dark" carnival aspect again, it was much cooler when it was wicked.

I wonder if J had never smoked weed would we have gotten the dark carnival 6th

BZA said
It wasn't always God..  from this MEC interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20031206004057/http://www.realjuggalos.com/kzoo/blue/Interviews/mec3.php

"I just heard "Homies" and "Thy Bridge" thats it....I'm not im going to front. It sounds like something my parents would have liked. It sounds like it could be Zug Izland or some Violent J solo stuff. There is more singing and guitar. .I'm not crazy about all that singin & shit on ICP records. It sounds religious."

So between 2001 when mike left and 2002 they adapted the carnival is God thing.. remember it was ment to be the dark carnival?  

Awesome interview. Fucking realjuggalos, holy shit. Thanks for posting that. Maaan imagine that first lotus with mike e on it as well. Tales with Marz is a classic but still. Mike E creates atmosphere and energy.

Fuck the devil, fuck that shit, we believe in life legit. Can't remember the rest. I bought a tape player when I was a teenager just so I could play all their and Twiztids shit back.

Despite conflicting interviews on the subject, what I've come to realize is that the guys are simply spiritual and try their best to believe that there is something to being a good person. Trying your best. Religion isn't exactly the goal. The liner notes in Shangri-La tell it best. I loved reading those. 

I am an Agnostic Atheist. Basically no one knows the truth, and may never. I won't go into it, but I also try and be the best I can be to everyone I can. Just be decent, people.