It's a bad religion
To be in love with someone
Who could never love you

from Frank Ocean – Bad Religion Lyrics on Rap Genius

This is a key line in the song as it explains its double entendre. The bad religion is his unrequited love— expressing his disappointment of his first love and taking a jab at the lack of LGBTQ tolerance in the religious communities. He’s basically saying that he worshiped his first lover in the same way he worshiped God— in a different, but very similar way. That’s also why he uses the phrase “one-man cult.” Cults have an excessive admiration for a particular person/thing. In both instances, he did not feel the love was returned.

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