I see this more as a anti-religious song simply stating that he will let wisdom not "fascist beliefs " control him. It brings this up several times trough out the song such as "I will not let my strength rotted out" " wise men can see the difference in compromise and laying down one's belief" you are simply picking one theme of the song and discarding the rest yes it does say " i will not let pride destroy me " but what is pride? I believe this song is refering to pride and religious as pride but its kinds foggy so I'm not sure (maybe pride in your belief in god? Idk). But regargless this song is awesomeness I love how the singer uses 3 different voices through out the song (i loved the deep one the best) It doest matter what hes singing about because he could be yellin' " I LOVE CAKE" over and over and I would still listen to the song simply because the rest of the song is great I loved the heavy drum and guitar was spot on all hail atr!