I've been thinking about a couple of music videos I posted, such as "Who Wants to Live Forever" (Queen), in the Songs That Make You Cry thread, which I consider to have atheistic themes. So I was wondering what songs you guys consider to be "atheist anthems", or songs that promote a secular worldview. The most obvious answer is "Imagine" by John Lennon, so I'm leaving that one out. Here are my first three submissions. I also see that this thread has been attempted before, so try to make it last longer, this time! (THAT'S WHAT SHEEEE SAID!!)
Post as many/few as you like, but do highlight the lyrics or passage you think makes it an Atheist Anthem.
"The Idiots Are Taking Over" - NoFX
"...Darwin's rolling over in his coffin,
The fittest are surviving much less often,
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening!
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule,
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet,
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them,
Followers following fables,
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard ...
What are we left with?
A nation of God-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions,
How-to-get-ahead religions,
And prosperity via simpleton culture.
The idiots have taken over!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czx2p-GHBhk
"Judith" by A Perfect Circle
"You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I will never, ever choose to be!
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How the savior has abandoned you.
Fuck your God,
Your Lord and your Christ!
He did this,
Took all you had and
Left you this way.
Still you pray, you never stray,
Never taste of the fruit.
You never thought to question why...
Praise the one who left you
Broken down and paralyzed..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgKRCXybSM
"Crucify" by Tori Amos
Got a kick for a dog beggin' for love.
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross!
I know a cat named Easter,
He says, "Will you ever learn?
You're just an empty cage, girl,
If you kill the bird!"
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands,
Drive another nail in.
Got enough guilt to start my own religion.
Please be,
Save me, I cry.
Why do we
Crucify ourselves?
Every day
I crucify myself.
And nothing I do is good enough for you!
Crucify myself every day,
And my heart is sick of being in chains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipCKIxdHTs
Post as many/few as you like, but do highlight the lyrics or passage you think makes it an Atheist Anthem.
"The Idiots Are Taking Over" - NoFX
"...Darwin's rolling over in his coffin,
The fittest are surviving much less often,
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening!
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule,
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet,
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them,
Followers following fables,
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard ...
What are we left with?
A nation of God-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions,
How-to-get-ahead religions,
And prosperity via simpleton culture.
The idiots have taken over!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czx2p-GHBhk
"Judith" by A Perfect Circle
"You're such an inspiration for the ways
That I will never, ever choose to be!
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How the savior has abandoned you.
Fuck your God,
Your Lord and your Christ!
He did this,
Took all you had and
Left you this way.
Still you pray, you never stray,
Never taste of the fruit.
You never thought to question why...
Praise the one who left you
Broken down and paralyzed..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgKRCXybSM
"Crucify" by Tori Amos
Got a kick for a dog beggin' for love.
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross!
I know a cat named Easter,
He says, "Will you ever learn?
You're just an empty cage, girl,
If you kill the bird!"
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands,
Drive another nail in.
Got enough guilt to start my own religion.
Please be,
Save me, I cry.
Why do we
Crucify ourselves?
Every day
I crucify myself.
And nothing I do is good enough for you!
Crucify myself every day,
And my heart is sick of being in chains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipCKIxdHTs
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
