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	<title>Friendly Atheist &#187; Fine Arts</title>
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		<title>Rapper Gripp Releases Atheism-Themed Album</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/07/rapper-gripp-releases-atheism-themed-album/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rapper by the name of Marshall &#8220;Gripp&#8221; Gillson (also a 2009 graduate of Morehouse College) is independently releasing (PDF) an album today called Head in the Cloud. Several of the singles from it have atheistic themes, including the song &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/02/07/rapper-gripp-releases-atheism-themed-album/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A rapper by the name of <strong>Marshall &#8220;Gripp&#8221; Gillson</strong> (also a 2009 graduate of Morehouse College) is <a href="http://www.glasseyeballs.com/press/Files/Digital_Distribution_Favors_Independent_Musicians.pdf">independently releasing</a> (PDF) an album today called <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076ABQRS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0076ABQRS">Head in the Cloud</a></em>.</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076ABQRS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0076ABQRS"><img alt="" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61vn2chMkqL._SS500_.jpg" class="alignnone" width="500" height="500" /></a></center></p>
<p>Several of the singles from it have atheistic themes, including the song &#8220;<a href="http://youtu.be/MTcBD7mz2vA">The Future Goes</a>&#8220;:</p>
<p><center><iframe width="560" height="410" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MTcBD7mz2vA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center> </p>
<p>An excerpt from the lyrics (at the 1:14 mark):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>So when we say that we’re better than you/ essentially that//<br />
is to say that we pay attention to facts//<br />
So come with us. We can teach you every attack//<br />
the pseudoscientific mindset sets in a trap//<br />
You will never go back/ Once you’re given the awe//<br />
it’s grander than any caricature religion could draw//<br />
I had a vision of all/ of us in a prison of straw men//<br />
My mission is to make sure they ain’t winning this war//<br />
So the battle lines are drawn in the sand/ ‘cos all that I am//<br />
is a man/ shaping his logical thoughts to a plan/ Damn//<br />
We need clear heads to get out of this mess//<br />
So tell religious leaders step aside; it’s probably best/ Yes//</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Who needs Gospel music when there&#8217;s Godless rapping to be spread?  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0076ABQRS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0076ABQRS">Buy the album</a> and keep this sort of thing going!<br />
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		<title>Toby Ganger Releases &#8216;Evolutionary&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/27/toby-ganger-releases-evolutionary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hip-hop singer Toby Ganger just released an EP called &#8220;Evolutionary&#8221; and the title track sounds pretty awesome: Evolutionary by Toby An excerpt from the lyrics: &#8230;the other side interested in scaring the rest of us here with a message of &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/27/toby-ganger-releases-evolutionary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hip-hop singer <strong>Toby Ganger</strong> just released an EP called &#8220;<a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/album/evolutionary-ep">Evolutionary</a>&#8221; and the <a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/track/evolutionary">title track</a> sounds pretty awesome:</p>
<p><center><a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/album/evolutionary-ep"><img src="http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/files/2012/01/408158_10150482163128705_144260263704_8714918_1285900268_n-550x550.jpg" alt="" title="408158_10150482163128705_144260263704_8714918_1285900268_n" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-51747" /></a></center></p>
<p><center><iframe width="400" height="100" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=421665573/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"><a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/track/evolutionary">Evolutionary by Toby</a></iframe></center></p>
<p>An excerpt from the <a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/track/evolutionary">lyrics</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;the other side interested in scaring<br />
the rest of us here with a message of fear<br />
so todays questions appear<br />
through the lens of yesterday&#8217;s perception of fair<br />
and the prejudice clear<br />
whenever they&#8217;re debating on who gets to be married<br />
always saying to protect the kids<br />
really they&#8217;re afraid we&#8217;ll reject their myths</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/album/evolutionary-ep">entire album</a> or just the <a href="http://tobymusic.bandcamp.com/track/evolutionary">single</a> can be found on his site.<br />
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		<title>Mischif&#8217;s Lie in the Sky</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/19/mischifs-lie-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian rapper Mischif wrote the following song. The lyrics are below so you can sing along. (Hey, I&#8217;m a poet and I don&#8217;t even know it!) Chorus 2X: Living a lie. Never given the time to even think but you &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/19/mischifs-lie-in-the-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Canadian rapper <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mischif/162182406154">Mischif</a></strong> wrote the following <a href="http://youtu.be/g2Mmm-9-n2w">song</a>.  The lyrics are below so you can sing along.  (Hey, I&#8217;m a poet and I don&#8217;t even know it!)</p>
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<blockquote><p><em><strong>Chorus 2X</strong>:<br />
Living a lie.<br />
Never given the time to even think but you were given a mind.<br />
Start to think and you&#8217;ll find the very truth that is hidden inside<br />
and stop believing in the lie the sky. (The lie in the sky.)</p>
<p><strong>Verse 1</strong>:<br />
Brainwashed since birth to believe so they&#8217;ll live in fear.<br />
Get them scared at a young age of a god that isn&#8217;t there.<br />
Train the youth to hate ya, for obeyin&#8217; human nature.<br />
Major religions taking young children to mutilate them.<br />
I wish there was a hell so the Pope could see the beast<br />
for covering up crimes of the pedophile priests.<br />
We don&#8217;t need religion to teach morals&#8230; ridiculous.<br />
Your backwards way of thinkin&#8217; is looking so hideous.<br />
Mother Teresa wasn&#8217;t special; it was a cover up.<br />
Witnesses of her so called miracles, they would shut them up.<br />
Magazines printing full stories that reeked of fabrication,<br />
while the sheep followed so blindly and gave her adulation.<br />
If we all come from a white Adam and Eve, some one<br />
tell me where all of the different colors of the world come from.<br />
There&#8217;s no evidence for a god, but there is for evolution.<br />
Let&#8217;s rebuild the mind that religion&#8217;s been polluting</p>
<p><strong>Chorus 2X</strong>:<br />
Living a lie.<br />
Never given the time to even think but you were given a mind.<br />
Start to think and you&#8217;ll find the very truth that is hidden inside<br />
and stop believing in the lie the sky. (The lie in the sky.)</p>
<p><strong>Verse 2</strong>:<br />
The church imprisoned Galileo for the birth of modern science<br />
&#8217;cause they don&#8217;t want us to learn. They want mankind&#8217;s compliance.<br />
Giving us facts, but religion had to take him out<br />
for teaching we went around the sun and not the other way around.<br />
Religion gave us the dark ages, the heartless<br />
thousand-year period of intellectual darkness.<br />
How can you believe that creation was instantaneous?<br />
Yet all the worlds genocides, god also gave to yas?<br />
Modern organisms from simple to complex<br />
only reflect an evolutionary process.<br />
When someone young dies, &#8220;god&#8217;s work&#8217;s a mystery.&#8221;<br />
Forget the millions killed in his name throughout history.<br />
Coincidences happen and some become spiritual<br />
and suddenly wanna label the incident a miracle.<br />
Mind control is just religions main obsession.<br />
Born with curiosity but you better suppress it.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>(Thanks to <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/schparrow">Mark</a></strong> for the link and lyrics!)<br />
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		<title>Band Promoting Humanism Will Donate CD Sales to Secular Student Alliance</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/17/band-promoting-humanism-will-donate-cd-sales-to-secular-student-alliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The band Words Such As Burn recently put out a new album and they&#8217;re donating all the proceeds from sales to the Secular Student Alliance! Lead singer Bruce Harris describes the humanist message in Flow, saying: Flow is about what &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/17/band-promoting-humanism-will-donate-cd-sales-to-secular-student-alliance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The band Words Such As Burn recently put out a new album and they&#8217;re <a href="https://www.secularstudents.org/node/4197">donating all the proceeds</a> from sales to the <a href="https://www.secularstudents.org/support">Secular Student Alliance</a>!</p>
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<blockquote><p><em>Lead singer Bruce Harris describes the humanist message in Flow, saying:</p>
<p>Flow is about what religion costs us, believers and unbelievers alike, in terms of lost love and wasted friendships. Most atheists I know have experienced the familiar story; Maybe a friend or relative who learns about our lack of faith, who then begins to treat us differently.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The single &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006UEZ1UY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006UEZ1UY">Flow</a>&#8221; costs $0.99 and about $0.70 will go to the SSA.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006UEZ1R2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006UEZ1R2">full album</a> costs $3.96 and a little more than half will go to the SSA.</p>
<p>Check them out!  It&#8217;s a generous offer from the band and a great way to spread their music.<br />
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		<title>A Rap Obituary for Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/12/17/a-rap-obituary-for-christopher-hitchens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Bull, who previously wrote a rap letter to the Pope, is back with an awesome, rhythmic homage to Hitch: You can download the MP3 of that song right here.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/douglby">Dan Bull</a></strong>, who previously wrote a <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2010/09/12/dear-benny/">rap letter to the Pope</a>, is back with an awesome, rhythmic <a href="http://youtu.be/VaXzi8zTPoM">homage to Hitch</a>:</p>
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<p>You can download the MP3 of that song <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?3sp79a7z6uxzops">right here</a>.<br />
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		<title>The Tug of War</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/26/the-tug-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader Dave made this image (click to enlarge): I&#8217;m not sure I agree with it. (Since when are Jews and Muslims on the same side for anything&#8230;?!) Want a more appropriate image? Have all those faiths pulling from all different &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/26/the-tug-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reader <strong>Dave</strong> made this image (click to enlarge):</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure I agree with it.  (Since when are Jews and Muslims on the same side for anything&#8230;?!) </p>
<p>Want a more appropriate image?  Have all those faiths pulling from all different directions with a couple nukes flying in for good measure.  </p>
<p>The atheists would be the ones furiously trying to push the halves of the Earth back together.<br />
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Pony&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/25/im-a-pony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought a Hemant pony would be brown&#8230; Nevertheless, I think it fits! You can see Johnny Kaje&#8216;s other atheist ponies here]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I always thought a Hemant pony would be brown&#8230; </p>
<p><center><a href="http://johnnykaje.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/skepticon-ponies-the-final-hour/"><img alt="" src="http://johnnykaje.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/hepintomehta.jpg?w=655&#038;h=512" class="alignnone" width="550" height="430" /></a></center> </p>
<p>Nevertheless, I think it fits!</p>
<p>You can see <strong>Johnny Kaje</strong>&#8216;s <a href="http://johnnykaje.wordpress.com/tag/skeptiponies/">other atheist ponies here</a> <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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		<title>Look Again at That Pale Blue Dot</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/25/look-again-at-that-pale-blue-dot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer Anthony David just released the video for his new song &#8220;#locationlocationlocation.&#8221; Listening to the lyrics, it&#8217;s clear how much of an influence Carl Sagan had on him. David writes in an email: It was inspired by Sagan&#8217;s &#8220;Pale Blue &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/25/look-again-at-that-pale-blue-dot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Singer <strong>Anthony David</strong> just released the video for his new song &#8220;<a href="http://youtu.be/V3PbB1VTzFI">#locationlocationlocation</a>.&#8221;   Listening to the lyrics, it&#8217;s clear how much of an influence <strong>Carl Sagan</strong> had on him.  </p>
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<p>David writes in an email:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It was inspired by Sagan&#8217;s &#8220;Pale Blue Dot&#8221; and the whole idea of the Goldilocks zone we inhabit. It goes from there to humanist values, punctuated by visuals of a recent trip I took to Kenya on a humanitarian mission. The video actually opens up in the Rift Valley. I dedicated it to the recently deceased Nobel Prize Winner, Wangari Maathai, who did much to forward Kenya&#8217;s progress with her tireless work towards conserving the resources of our planet.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to hear a church choir sing a rendition of this song&#8230;<br />
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		<title>Support Songs for Nonbelievers</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/20/support-songs-for-nonbelievers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Carle is a singer/songwriter who&#8217;s working on an album called Songs For Nonbelievers. (The title is pretty self-explanatory.) Cynthia needs some help, though, so she&#8217;s raising funds on Kickstarter. Need some motivation to donate? Listen to the lyrics in &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/11/20/support-songs-for-nonbelievers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.cynthiacarle.com/">Cynthia Carle</a></strong> is a singer/songwriter who&#8217;s working on an album called <em>Songs For Nonbelievers</em>.  (The title is pretty self-explanatory.) </p>
<p>Cynthia needs some help, though, so she&#8217;s <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cynthiacarle/cynthia-carles-new-album-songs-for-nonbelievers">raising funds on Kickstarter</a>.</p>
<p>Need some motivation to donate?  Listen to the lyrics in one of the album&#8217;s first tracks, <a href="http://youtu.be/yxR-aMefI-4">&#8220;Sunday in Reality&#8221;</a>:</p>
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<p>She has no invisible means of support so if you think her project is worthwhile, <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cynthiacarle/cynthia-carles-new-album-songs-for-nonbelievers">pitch in a few bucks</a>!  We could always use more atheist musicians <img src='http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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		<title>And This Is Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Be a Creationist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if you needed another reason to fight against Creationism, I bring you the Flizbins: If you can make it to the 1:16 mark, you get to hear Christian Rapping&#8230; If you make it to the end, you deserve a &#8230; <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/10/24/and-this-is-why-you-shouldnt-be-a-creationist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As if you needed another reason to fight against Creationism, I bring you the <a href="http://youtu.be/XK_CengSV3Q">Flizbins</a>:</p>
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<p>If you can make it to the 1:16 mark, you get to hear Christian Rapping&#8230; </p>
<p>If you make it to the end, you deserve a cookie.</p>
<p>By the way, that&#8217;s a real song from a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005R3SPCK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B005R3SPCK">real album</a> by a <a href="http://www.flizbins.com/">real group</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>And you thought Christians were incapable of being cool.</p>
<p>(via <a href="http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/11261062383/super-stiff-christians-dance-and-sing-about">Christian Nightmares</a>)<br />
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