History Main / GodIsLoveSongs

* ''SouthPark'' parodied this ruthlessly in an episode where Cartman creates a Christian rock group and achieves massive success replacing the word "baby" in popular songs with the word "Jesus". UnfortunateImplications abound as the songs he picks to adapt get more and more explicit.

* In one movie, which may or may not be ''Highway 61'', the main character (who's possibly a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Christ figure]]) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4auwDDPmOeY Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus]]".

* There's a movie (I unfortunately can't remember the title) where the main character (who's possibly a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Christ figure]]) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4auwDDPmOeY Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus]]".

* There's a movie (I unfortunately can't remember the title) where the main character (who's possibly a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Christ figure]]) has sex with his girlfriend in the graveyard outside a church, which is intercut with a choir inside the church belting "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4auwDDPmOeY Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus]]". I'm not making this up!

* Arguably Relient K's ''Must have Done Something Right'' is supposed to be this.

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

* OlderThanYouThink, given some of the imagery in John Donne's Holy Sonnets, particularly #14 ("Batter my heart, three-person'd God;"):

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* "All Around Me" by {{Flyleaf}}.

** Borderline, as the original version is somewhat less ambiguous. It's the [[CoveredUp more well known]] Mandy Moore version that causes the confusion.

* "Bargain" by TheWho is actually about the search for God/spiritual enlightenment. Similarly, the "you" in "Listening To You" and "Who Are You" is stated to be God.

* [[http://www.alittleleaven.com/ Chris Rosebrough]], of [[http://piratechristianradio.com/ Pirate Christian Radio fame]] [[TakeThat bashes this trope for all its worth]]. Other than the typical TGWTG-esque critique of such [[SoBadItsHorrible banal]] music, he goes into [[BerserkButton an unstoppable rage]] when said songs end up [[YouFailReligiousStudiesForever failing to correctly represent the Christian faith]]

-->''And so we sat and read various things like 'He Will Hold Me Fast...In Bed', 'Lord and Master of Us All...In Bed', 'When He Cometh...In Bed', 'Trust and Obey...In Bed', 'Come and Dine...In Bed' and giggled our heads off.''

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MNH7vZb8k&feature=related This]] Christian parody of the song "OMG" by Usher, which is unambiguously about sex/lust, practically just takes the original song and changes "baby" to "Jesus". And it's ''serious''.

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* ''TheSimpsons'' did a joke on this: First Ned hears a Christian folk singer sing about the man she loves and then being surprised when she sings Jesus. Later she reveals that her band dumped her to sing pop rock, which they achieved by just changing the word "Jesus" to "baby", with the implication that the reverse would be true as well.

* Although they might actually be romantic lyrics played straight, quite a few lines in songs by KillswitchEngage seem to imply this, what with how closely they mesh with the heavy spiritual ([[NotChristianRock Christian?]]) lyrics.

* Although they might actually be romantic lyrics played straight, quite a few lines in songs by Killswitch Engage seem to imply this, what with how closely they mesh with the heavy spiritual ([[NotChristianRock Christian?]]) lyrics.

-->'God is love, God is love'
-->'If you wanna find love'
-->'you gotta find God'
-->--[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonex Tonex's]] song 'God is Love'

** Pretty heavily YourMileageMayVary on that one. You could argue for undertones, but the first line is "You don't remember me, but I remember you", which...[[SoYeah yeah]]...

* The movie ''SisterAct'' inverts this by taking 1960s love songs and turning them into hymns.

** Pretty heavily YourMileageMayVary on that one. You could argue for undertones, but the first line is "You don't remember me, but I remember you."

These are songs that, at first hearing, seem to be ordinary love songs, but are actually allegories about the singer's relationship with God, often by artists who are trying to gain or keep a mainstream secular audience and feel that talking about God will put people off and exclude them. Can sometimes lead to UnfortunateImplications when a praise song sounds like IntercourseWithYou to people who aren't familiar with the context. ("Down on your knees before Jesus", indeed!).

For the result of what these songs tend to imply, see HalfHumanHybrid. Then again, RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal.

** Do they by any chance sing about erotic asphyxiation with Jesus? "Stryper" means "strangles" in Swedish.

* ToriAmos' "Icicle" parodies this trope, as she sings about teenage masturbation to fantasies of Jesus. While her pastor father leads prayer groups downstairs.

* [[http://www.myspace.com/FayBN FayBN's]] song "Your Angel"]], which is either a song about God, or a song about obsessive homosexual love with a religious motif. [[MakesSenseInContext In context]], of course, it's quite clear which is the intended meaning, but to unknowing listeners...