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The inverse of God-Is-Love Songs, Love Is Like Religion is a trope commonly found in pop songs and other romantic works where religious imagery and terminology are used to talk about love as though it itself were a faith or as though the beloved were a celestial being. Romantic love and religious faith are often portrayed as very similar states of mind in fiction. Like Property of Love and Love Is a Drug, it's a common romantic desire to worship or be worshipped by one's beloved. (See the split etymology of "passion".) This interplay can be complicated, since many major religions now and historically have involved suppression of sexuality and supported power structures that make Marrying for Love almost impossible, especially for women and LGBT people. This means it may overlap with Protest Song, and using it may reflect a character's Crisis of Faith. It can also have a similar effect to Interplay of Sex and Violence. A common Motif. Subtrope of Blasphemous Praise; Sister Trope to the non-romantic Like a God to Me. Compare In Love with Love and Converting for Love. Common to characters and artists who are Culturally Religious. Expect lots of ritual-inspired Unusual Euphemism. Often incorporate Biblical Motifs such as Blood Oath, Forbidden Fruit, Garden of Eden, and Seven Deadly Sins. Compare Divine Date, where the object of affection is literally divine. Contrast Hot as Hell, where they're the opposite. Contrast Religion Rant Song. See also Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory. Note that this trope is about the motif where love is figuratively compared to religion, not actual religions based on love. |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "Heaven's Light / Hellfire" contrasts Quasimodo's crush on Esmeralda with Frollo's lust for her, where they compare each to the light of Heaven and the fires of Hell, respectively. | |
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Rick and Morty: In episode "Bethic Twinstinct", an exercise at couples' therapy shows that Beth's ideal version of her husband perceives her as a literal goddess. | |
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In the opening track of Red, "State of Grace", she compares the short time she spent with her lover to a state of grace, though she admits in the bridge that "you were never a saint / And I loved in shades of wrong". | |
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"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle, where she claims being with her lover makes...Heaven a place on Earth. | |
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Taken rather literally with Karen in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, who is such a rabid Kaguya/Shirogane shipper that she routinely compares their assumed love for each other to an act of god, even claiming that the idea of one of them going out with somebody else to be blasphemy. She goes so far as to directly quote the bible whenever she sees them engaged in a particularly romantic activity like holding hands during the fireworks festival or their First Kiss. | |
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Heathers: J.D. and Veronica sing a song called "Our Love Is God" about destroying what they've known and building everything new with the power of their love. | |
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From the unreleased Billie Eilish track, "6.18.18": | |
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Romeo and Juliet: Romeo begins his famous "But soft ... " speech comparing Juliet to the sun and moon, and ends by straight up calling her an angel: Later, when Romeo has been exiled, he laments that "Heaven is here, where Juliet lives!" Juliet during the balcony scene (Act II, scene 2): |
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In Sonnet 105, the poet protests that his devotion to his beloved should not be considered "idolatry" (worship of idols distracting from God), because his love is, like his faith, "To one, of one, still such, and ever so." | |
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Hozier: "Take Me to Church" is an intense ballad that uses religious imagery throughout as the singer expresses wanting to worship his beloved instead of the church that rejected their love, with a prechorus of repeated amens. In "Foreigner's God", the singer expresses his love for a woman who does not conform to his society's edicts as "Screaming the name of a foreigner's god". |
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"700 Club" by Nicole Dollanganger: | |
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Giovanni is in love with his sister Annabella. Near the beginning, he angstily monologues: | |
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is an Arthurian text from the late 1100s, and the first story to contain the affair between Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot. Lancelot's all-consuming love and devotion for his queen takes on some trappings of religion. Guinevere has been abducted and Lancelot is on a quest to find her. As he's tracking her, he comes upon an old campsite where Guinevere's comb has been left behind, with a strand of hair still caught in the tines. Lancelot picks up the Hair Memento and spontaneously decides it has magical panacea healing properties. This seems really random unless you know about holy relics, a part of the Catholic faith which were particularly big in the Middle Ages when this story was written. Holy relics are body parts (usually bones) of saints. They are treated with awe and reverence, and are often thought to have healing powers. Lancelot is treating Guinevere's hair like a holy relic, and thus implying he regards Guinevere herself as something akin to a saint. Lancelot and Guinevere have a single night of passion together. Afterwards, "When he leaves the room, he bows and acts precisely as if he were before a shrine." |
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"Wings Of Heaven" by Tiamat. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Twincest lovers Cersei Lannister and Jaime Lannister have built a quasi-religious personal mythology around their relationship. The central metaphysical belief is "We are one person in two bodies," "I am not whole without you," and "I need my other half. You are me, I am you." Jaime is convinced that "If I were a woman, I would be Cersei," and Cersei likewise thinks, "If I were a man, I'd be Jaime." Their little pseudo-religion even has a prophesy: that they'll die together just as they were born together. They invoke imagery from the local mainstream religion, the Faith of the Seven, casting themselves in the roles of the gods the Maiden and the Warrior respectively. | |
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The Bible: The book of Song of Songs can seemingly be read as a straightforward love poem, bordering on outright erotic in some places. Many prominent Jewish and Christian interpreters through history have understood it as metaphorical for God's love for His people. | |
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Alienby Comics: In the last few panels of "Trans Jesus", Riri states how finding queer and trans community has helped them to feel loved after moving away from religion, even stating that Jesus would show love for people that evangelicals dislike. | |
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In "False God" on Lover, Taylor pledges religious devotion to her paramour, even if it turns out to be a "false god". | |
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"Funeral" by Meg Myers is a twisted love song that says, "You came in like a God from above" and "Let me wear your halo on a Sunday." | |
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Sting's "Sacred Love": | |
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A Knight's Tale: William says of his love for Jocelyn: | |
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HIM: They have a Love Martyr song titled "The Face of God". In "The Sacrament", the narrator's religion is the relationship he has with his true love. |
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In one lyric from Sia's "Cellophane", she compares her lover to a saint: | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac are in an intense, all-consuming relationship, and both use the language of religion to talk about it. Lestat (a Hollywood Atheist) compares his Love Interest Louis to a saint. In "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...", he says: In "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self", Lestat addresses his boyfriend as "Saint Louis" as an Affectionate Nickname. During the honeymoon phase of their relationship, Louis (a lapsed Catholic) felt a religious-like reverence and adoration for his lover Lestat. |
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