I think that adding religion to the meaning to this song is wrong. Nothing about this song has an attention to god nor any religion. Its about life and how people get caught up in popularity and envy, but then come to relize the word isn't about that. Like in the fraze "never an honest word, but that was when i ruled the word" shows that when he was caught up in the popularity and stuff he wasnt living in an honest way and not being true to his self and others, because that what ends up happening. Theres alot of frazes in these lyrics to Viva La Vida that may be missed understood to a person according to the word "king" and some others. The song has a very deep meaning to it that reflects upon people in genaral. The song has no religion relation to it. So, if you thought the song was about anything about that kind its not. & that's all I wanted to say. Thank you. By the way, I'm only 12 years old, and its pretty sad that most of these people are wrong.