{"id":17977,"date":"2013-10-03T12:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17977"},"modified":"2013-10-03T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:42:30","slug":"the-gnu-atheist-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/the-gnu-atheist-song.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gnu Atheist Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A commenter drew my attention to the existence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongarvey.co.uk\/gnu.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a parody song, \u201cThe New Gnu,\u201d<\/a> by musician Jon Garvey (based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cGVdCGxh1IY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe Gnu Song\u201d<\/a>), about the so-called \u201cGnu Atheists.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongarvey.co.uk\/gnu.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click through<\/a> to listen (just have your computer\u2019s sound on and it should play automatically, but there are controls at the very bottom of the page).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jongarvey.co.uk\/essays.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Garvey also has essays<\/a> related to Biblical studies and theology on his website, too!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Muppet rendition of the earlier song the one by Jon Garvey\u2019s is based on:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Muppet Show. British Chap - The Gnu Song (ep 519)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cGVdCGxh1IY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commenter drew my attention to the existence of a parody song, \u201cThe New Gnu,\u201d by musician Jon Garvey (based on \u201cThe Gnu Song\u201d), about the so-called \u201cGnu Atheists.\u201d Click through to listen (just have your computer\u2019s sound on and it should play automatically, but there are controls at the very bottom of the page). 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