I feel he's just continuing in the footsteps of people like Malcolm X, who criticized Christianity for making people docile to oppression because they're so willing to forgive, and their willinginess to accept injustice on Earth because they're led to believe in the land of milk and honey in the afterlife and that all those who sinned against them in this world will be punished later.
Kendrick's kinda saying, instead of just loving everybody all the time - like the usual Christian message - if we recognize that God punishes the wicked, then we too shouldn't be as willing to accept the evil we see in daily life. Now, coming from Kendrick who also routinely voices a heavy political message, I feel this more has to do with calling out guys like Trump for their wickedness as opposed to people in this thread who are making it seem like Kendrick was speaking about homosexuals, abortion, etc. etc.
Kendrick constantly discusses socio-economic issues, and I think it would make more sense if he was making this religious point to talk about those in positions of wealth and power who exalt themselves highly, meanwhile the people in the streets are starving and killing one another. As opposed to making this about 'Kendrick wants us to not mix wool and cotton, stone homosexuals, and not work on the Sabbath'.
But I'm an atheist, so that's just coming from an outside perspective.
Kendrick obviously was brought up in a Christian household...this is him exploring that particular box/believe system...that's something that EVERYBODY is going to have to do, athiests included because while you may no have a "believe" you still have a belief system. You can't really find out who you are without really digging into your belief systems.
To me it sounds like Kendrick while still influenced by Christianity is explorting it from an angle of defiance almost...of course he's not going to throw it out he window especially since "god" has blessed him to be in this position. But I don't think it's going to stop/start at him becoming Kirk Franklin, he's going to use his rap as a vehicle for exploring his religious beliefs.
I think that's cool, I'm more on Ab-Souls wavelenght when it comes to that, more spritual than religious so I resonate with his album which dives into the belief system in great depth but he's allowed to work through this stuff in his music, you don't like it don't listen.
