Atheists Don't Have No Songs

Lots of NOFX songs in the last decade are anti-religion.

Best God of Show
You're Wrong
 
Rant of a former all boys catholic school boy.


This is more a casual disregard for the sanctity of a certain religion. It counts! You'll love it.



Google Tim Minchin on Youtube.
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Yessir!

Do I have to put every youtube video in the little youtube box? Well I will, just in case.


The Good Book


If you Open your Mind too Much...


This is a song about Anal Sex and God


The aforementioned Pope Song

 
The 'Real old time religion' filk is close. It's not explicitly athiest, but by being all-inclusive it dilutes any one religion to irrelevance.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Google Tim Minchin on Youtube.
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Indeed. Particularly '10 foot **** and a few hundred virgins' and 'White wine in the sun'


Eddie Dane said:
Some of the ideals expressed in that song are bit too lofty for me.

'Imagine there's no country'
'Imagine no possessions'

I imagine stricter border controls and a new flat screen TV.
John and I are not on the same page on these issues.
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John was not on the same page as John. Did you see the car he drove? As far as I can work out his 'no posessions' thing was just for other people.

(that song really, really annoys the crap out of me)
 
Motörhead: don`t need religion

Don't need no blind belief
Don't need no comic relief
Don't need to see the scars
Don't need Jesus Christ Superstar
Don't need no Sunday Television
Bet your life you don't need religion

Don't need no time for prayer
Don't save no knee-pads for me up there
If your head's alright, ya don't need binoculars to see the light
Ya don't need no miracle vision
Bet ya life etc.

I don't need no Santa Claus
Don't believe in fairies no more
Don't need to go to confession
I'm already trying to fight depression
Don't need no exorcism
Bet ya life etc.
 
halohms said:
Lots of NOFX songs in the last decade are anti-religion.

Best God of Show
You're Wrong
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Yes, Best God in Show is one of my favorite NOFX songs. Seeing Double at the Triple Rock is a great blasphemous song as well.

But for those who aren't punk fans, this is one of my favorite godless songs.

 
madurobob said:
Yes, so one definition of atheist literature would simply be "literature". Or, at least any literature that is not specifically religious. Ditto for music. So, at some level we could say that all literature and music that is not religious, is atheist. It is defined by what i isn't: religious.

But clearly there is another working definition of "atheist music". The atheists here, myself included, have posted many examples. All of them speak to common themes of atheism with regard to religion. This definition is more along the lines of "anti-religious" - or antitheist as opposed to atheist.

But, in practice, isn't that what we all do - equivocate antitheist and atheist?
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I don't. I am militantly apatheistic, which means that I support any absence of the contemplation of a deity's existence. This is not the same as discussing religions or churches, so it probably isn't relevant.

I am chastened, upon reflection, to realize that Tom Lehrer may have let us down in this critical area of musical exposition. It is the sort of thing which would have been right up his alley. I suppose that Vatican Rag might be considered a step in that direction, but it seems too narrowly targeted.
 
quadraginta said:
II am chastened, upon reflection, to realize that Tom Lehrer may have let us down in this critical area of musical exposition. It is the sort of thing which would have been right up his alley. I suppose that Vatican Rag might be considered a step in that direction, but it seems too narrowly targeted.
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:) My father taught at Yale in the early 60s and we had signed copies of his first three albums. Our whole family knew all the songs by heart. I hadn't thought about that in decades... thanks for the memory refresh!
 
Most people think
Great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
To stand up for your rights

I know Bob Marley isn't an atheist, but that song is 100% atheist philosophy.

Also, the atheist tabernacle choir is awesome.
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
Holy Smoke by Iron Maiden would seem pretty anti-religion as well - though not necessarily atheist.
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You can't mention "Holy Smoke" and not mention "Leper Messiah":

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will

[Chorus]
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
[End Chorus]

Bow to Leper Messiah

Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain, taken by his glamour
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see

[Chorus]

Bow to Leper Messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
set the trap, hypnotize
now you follow

[Chorus]

Lie.
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As for "Imagine"...I'd rather not be represented by The Communist Manifesto set to song, thankyouverymuch.
 
madurobob said:
This may belong more in forum community, but I think it fits here, too.

I give you Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers on Austin City Limits singing "Atheists Don't Have No Songs".



"... the he is always lower case" Hehe.

I did not know Steve Martin was an atheist sympathizer!
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If we don't have no songs, what are some of the songs we have?:confused:
 
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