Steve Martin sings the atheist song:
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That was brilliant. Steve Martin still has it.
Incidentally, this is the second good piece of atheist music I’ve heard today. Slightly more serious, go to You Tube and look up “Your God, Not Mine” by Icehouse.
I’m not getting how Baptists have the rock of ages, though.
Rock of ages, cleft for me
let me hide myself in Thee.
OK, when I hear “rock of ages,” I think of a very different kind of music.
“It’s better to burn out … Than fade awaaaaay!”
Beautiful.
It had it’s slow points,
but Cheesus Crust that was great!
Yeah. Didn’t like that very much. Believe in Nothing by Nevermore is a bit better.
Nevermore is awesome, one of the most underrated bands IMO. Definite theme of non-beleif throughout.
Nevermore is my answer to the music Christians are “inspired” by. Believe in Nothing and the Heart Collector always inspire my atheism. I was never inspired by anything Christian when I was in theory Christian. I think I get what they love about the music that speaks to them finally because of Nevermore speaking to my ‘faith’.
Is that supposed to be FOR atheists, or a subtle jab at them?
I think if we make out with *just* the blues and rock’and’roll, I’d say we did pretty well.
Not sure we can claim either. There’s an awful lot of religious woo in both music forms.
Yeah, but if Steve Martin is good enough to give ‘em to us, who are we to say no?
I love both forms, and would love to claim them, but alas I don’t think we can.
But hey – Handels Messiah is no less beautiful because it was inspired by woo. The same can be said about George Harrison,
We might be able to claim the majority of metal out there. Even if it isn’t explicitly irreligious (though some of it is), relatively little of it is explicitly religious and a lot of the bands are all atheists.
Sure we could claim metal, but should we?
Plus, we have John Lennon’s Imagine. What more do we need.
Damn it, forgot a question mark.
I’d gladly claim metal, because it remains AWESOME! But too much of it that was allegedly “stananic” to qualify as atheist.
Oh, I know. I was just forwarding it as evidence that Steve Martin was laughing with Atheists rather than at them, as the commenter above suggested.
Exactly. Kiss could be wrong.
And we can watch football in our underpants. Doesn’t get much better than that.
Atheists could actually claim some of the hymn music sung in churches today. Vaughan Williams co-edited the 1906 English Hymnal and composed or arranged some of the more popular and enduring tunes. He was variously described as militantly atheist (Bertrand Russell who was at university with him) or cheerful agnostic (his second wife).
There are many good old tunes that are just so much worse made into Christian hymns. Compare for example “Greensleeves” with “What Child is This?”