RE: Can you recommend some anti-religion music?
June 6, 2013 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2013 at 6:24 am by NomenMihiNon.)
I can't believe no one's mentioned Bad Religion yet. I mean, their logo is the crossbuster, for cryin' out loud. An interview from their early days reveals that their name comes from the belief that any organized system of thought is a "bad religion" and should be avoided in favor of thinking for oneself. So while they're more anti-autoritarian than specifically anti-religion, there are certain songs (and specific lines in others) that make it obvious where they stand.
I've been a BR fan for two decades, and can't deny that their influence played a major role in my antipiphany. But this is the song that finally flipped me (i.e. got me to stop clinging to quasi-panentheistic notions of abstract forces and accept that I am indeed an atheist), from their 2004 album The Empire Strikes First:
My pain is God's love...
Also from that same album, a song about the damage inflicted by the Catholic church:
And from 1990's Against the Grain, a song I'd always make a point of playing if I had the misfortune of a fundamentalist passenger in my car (friend of a friend, that sort of thing):
I've been a BR fan for two decades, and can't deny that their influence played a major role in my antipiphany. But this is the song that finally flipped me (i.e. got me to stop clinging to quasi-panentheistic notions of abstract forces and accept that I am indeed an atheist), from their 2004 album The Empire Strikes First:
My pain is God's love...
Also from that same album, a song about the damage inflicted by the Catholic church:
And from 1990's Against the Grain, a song I'd always make a point of playing if I had the misfortune of a fundamentalist passenger in my car (friend of a friend, that sort of thing):
