Now I know… really?

It's been a long time since, as I was just entering adolescence, a song was released that literally "grabbed" me, both because of the guitar solo and the vocal duet featuring the almost guttural voice of Guilherme Isnard — from the band Zero — and the eternally "gasping and panting" Paulo Ricardo.
The song was "Now I Know," and this is what she said:

NOW I KNOW

I heard it said a long time ago.
That a man was coming to show us
That everyone is good.
And that nobody is that bad.

(CHORUS)
Time flies, and now I know.
They just wanted to deceive me.
There are good people who made me suffer.
There are good people who make me cry, make me cry.

Now I know and I can tell you, I can tell you
Don't believe it if you hear it too.
That someone loves you and you don't...
He can't live, he can't live

Those who live, lie.
Even without wanting to, even without wanting to
And it hurts the other person, not for pleasure.
But for obvious reasons, to survive

It's no longer possible to ignore it.
The one who loves me hurts me too much.
But it's still too early to know.
Whether this is bad or very good.

(CHORUS)

Who sees his face?
She only thinks about good things, she only thinks about good things.
What can you do for whom?
If I had the chance to possess you, to own you

He has no idea how sad it is to have, how sad it is to have
Too much love and nothing in return.
May it compensate for the pain it brings.
What pain this brings (3x)
For all the pain this brings (2x)

Freddy Haiat / Guilherme Isnard

I have no idea how many times I've heard and sung—in duets of voice and guitar with my brother—this rock ballad over the decades, but one day I really paid attention to those words and began to suspect that the man who came to show that "everyone is good" might be a reference to the Lord Jesus Christ and that, according to the song's lyrics, his mission was a complete failure…
Hey! We're in the age of technology: why not do a quick search in the digital archives?

ANALYZING THE CLIP

While walking through what we can interpret as a kind of "corridor of time," the composer and singer makes a point of highlighting—through facial expressions, gestures, and posture—his great contempt for Jesus Christ, who is represented in various ways in this video:

After admiring Hitler and some references to the atomic bomb in World War II, at 16 seconds a skull appears with a warning in German which, translated, means "Beware Jews," without punctuation, which does not allow for double interpretation: a threatening "Beware Jews!" or a preventive "Beware: Jews"... as if the threat came from the Israelis.

It's curious to note that the singer's movements and expressions are normal until the 26-second mark, when (an actor representing) Jesus Christ is introduced on a screen that rises: although the video is not in high definition, it can be seen that he raises an eyebrow in a disdainful expression, followed by an opening of his arms in the style of "what is this?" and, after interlacing his fingers, the image is replaced by an atomic explosion.

The following scenes show the band playing in a post-catastrophic setting, with wreckage and ragged people staggering around until, upon arriving at a night camp lit by campfires (and people sleeping inside a VW van!), at 1:38 Mr. Isnard finds a publication that, judging by its thickness in the first shot, appears to be just a magazine, but in the next scene it becomes two larger books: one with a brown cover and the other, black… could they be Bibles?

Everything suggests so, because after searching the surroundings with an indignant look — perhaps looking for the owner of the Bibles — the singer seems to lose his patience, become filled with fury, and throw them as if they were contaminated garbage.

Music videos don't need to make sense, and from one moment to the next, the lead singer of the band Zero is transported—tuxedo and all!—to a manger where a couple with no attitude whatsoever are observing a naked baby, whose genitalia, incidentally, is deliberately and unnecessarily exposed in an explicit way… again a representation of Christ, now at his birth, but in a condition of exponentially multiplied misery: faced with the parents' inertia, the singer demonstrates his magnificence by stepping forward to cover the baby with his own coat.

Suddenly, something remarkable happens outside, and upon going out to investigate, the author of "Now I Know" looks up and sees the star, discovering that he is so spectacularly gifted that, regardless of any divine intervention, he was even able to anticipate the magicians of... Matthew 2 To give as a gift to the boy!

SCARECROW

Religion is the opium of the people.
This maxim of Marx constitutes the cornerstone of the entire Marxist conception of the religious question.
Marxism always considers all modern religions and churches, each and every religious organization, to be organs of bourgeois reaction called upon to defend exploitation and brutalize the working class.

Vladimir Lenin, 1909

Upon reviewing this content now, in 2021, I was overcome with great regret and aversion to everything said and represented through this song. Given the undeniable facts presented above, I have no other understanding than that this work was meticulously planned to sow, since the 1980s, the seeds of Marxism—which goes hand in hand with Satanism—in the hearts and minds of society. If I, as a conscious Christian, took decades to realize the meticulous sordidness interwoven into every detail of this creation, inattentive people will continue passionately singing this true affront against the Lord Jesus Christ and, incidentally, even against the Jews!

By stating "Now I Know" and attacking Christianity with phrases and images of the deepest mockery, Guilherme Isnard resorted to... straw man fallacy, one of the favorite resources of the militants of red ideologies, where the person ignores the opponent's true position in the debate and replaces it with a distorted version that misrepresents that position.

A fallacy occurs through deliberate distortion, with the aim of making the argument more easily refutable, or even through accidental distortion—when the debater who produces it did not understand the argument they intend to refute—and the refutation is made against an argument created by the person attacking the original argument; it is not a refutation of the original argument itself.
For those unfamiliar with the original argument, the rebuttal may seem valid, as it refutes that argument.

I only know that I know nothing.

Perhaps, instead of getting angry and throwing the Bibles away, the composer could have had the humility to examine them before writing one of the most stupidly ignorant phrases I have ever seen used as a pretext for such intense rebellion against the Judeo-Christian faith as that shown in the video.
Read the sentence carefully again:“I heard a long time ago that a man was coming to show us. that everyone is good And that nobody is that bad…“

Who told him that? Where could he have come from to such an absurd statement, contrary to what Christ himself said?
Incidentally, the obvious and direct refutation of the composer's claim is still available to anyone who truly wants to know:

And behold, a young man came to him and said:
Good Teacher, what good deed must I do to inherit eternal life?
And he said to him:
Why do you call me good?
There is only one that is good., which is God.
If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.

(Matthew 19:16-17 – ACF)

I transcribed it adding capital letters, bold, and underlining, but, to emphasize the magnitude of the deception contained in the premise of this song, I will cite the same episode as it is referenced again in another passage:

Jesus replied:
“Why do you call me good?
Nobody is good, Except for one, which is God!

(Mark 10:18 – KJA)

Even if we try to replace the concept of being good (doing good) with the idea of being just (being balanced), we will still find the apostle Paul destroying that possibility:

As it is written:
There is no one righteous, not even one..

(Romans 3:10 – ACF)

Given this triple confirmation, it remains to be seen from whom Mr. Isnard "heard" the opposite... and I venture to say that it was probably from Satan himself who, not content with whispering this lie in his ear, also inspired him to undertake all this effort with the obvious intention of confronting and discrediting the plans of the Lord God for humanity.

SPECIAL PARTICIPATION

I found the exact same text shown in this image in several places online, but without a citation of the original source.

Paulo Ricardo was invited by Guilherme Isnard, vocalist and leader of Banda Zero, to participate in the group's first album.
Paulo then listened to the demo of the song "Now I Know"., He was amazed by the lyrics. and accepted the invitation.
The song became a hit on radio and TV!

Knowing that hatred of good and service to Satan generally bring success and money, we should not be surprised to learn that it was precisely the profane lyrics that caused such admiration that he wanted to take part in this evil hymn, even if through a band that was previously irrelevant.

There is no doubt that this song was the biggest hit for the band Zero precisely because it was boosted by the special participation of Paulo Ricardo, who at the time was one of the biggest Brazilian stars, having achieved such prominence through the band RPM, against whom he recently entered into a legal dispute and, in fact, ended up being dismissed. prohibited from performing his repertoire.

CONCLUSION

In recounting all the supposed suffering he went through — for having believed a lie — until he reached the enlightenment of a “superior knowledge” that allows him to present himself full of “revolutionary” poses and attitudes, categorically stating that “Now I Know”… the composer and singer only reveals the profound and real obscurity on which this song was based and, probably, he himself believed and even profited from throughout his life.

At the time this song was released, I was too innocent to comprehend such heresy, but time flies and now I know that millions were dragged into singing these profane words because of the—I can't deny—excellent soundtrack it's set to.

HOW A FECES CAKE
COVERED BY MOST BEAUTIFUL ICING,
THAT'S HOW SUGARY IS

IMAGINE

For me, as for any genuine Christian, all that remains is the arduous task of unloading this music from my mind as if it were the putrefying corpse of a criminal, never to see, hear, or remember it again with any affection or nostalgia.

In conclusion, dear brothers,
absolutely everything that is true,
anything that is honest,
whatever is fair,
everything that is pure,
everything that is lovely,
anything that is of good repute,
if there is anything excellent or worthy of praise,
Think about this.

(Philippians 4:8 – KJA)