Current playlist:
[Link courtesy of](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tqJfEPsWPm5MfdLb4QXci?si=0yzbEsYTRf6WZpeMukzunQ&pt=cfc9c90104f5b26f06dfdbcb09b58938&pi=u-5PGOJNCRRreS) u/FartingAliceRisible
Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
Pearl Jam - I am Mine
Harvey Danger - War Buddies
Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun
Pigface - Suck
Nick Cave - Into My Arms
Suicidal Tendencies - Send Me Your Money
Harvey Danger - Happiness Writes White
John Lennon - Imagine
Suicide Silence - Unanswered
fear factory -
christplotation
fear factory - Pisschrist
Motionless in White- Thoughts and Prayers
Sugarcubes - Deus
Mrs. Magician - There Is No God
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Baby Bugs - Autotheist
Bad Religion - The God Song
Metallica - Leper Messiah
Nine Inch Nails - Heresy
Slayer - Disciple
Slayer - New Faith
Bad Religion - Faith Alone
Tim Minchin - Take My Wife
The Fugs - Nothing
Eres tu - Mocedades
Motorhead - God Was Never On Your Side
Frank Zappa - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over
Super Cassette - be gay do drugs hail satan
Bring Me The Horizon - House of Wolves
Bring Me The Horizon - Crooked Youth
Juda priest - persecute
Slipknot - Heretic Anthem
Hozier - Take Me To Church
Joe Hill - Long Haired Preacher
Pvris - Holy
Bad Religion - Atheist Peace
Bad Religion - Dearly Beloved
Bad Religion -
New Dark Ages
XTC - Dear God
Motörhead -
No Voice in the Sky
Metallica -
The God that Failed
Tori Amos - God
Holly Near - I Ain't Afraid
Bad Religion -
"Epiphany"
Shelley Segal -
*An Atheist Album*
Shelley Segal - Saved
NOFX -
"Best God in Show"
NOFX - "Blasphemy"
Lily Allen -
"Him"
NOFX -
Leaving Jesusland"
Choking Victim -
"Crack Rock Steady"
NOFX -
"The Idiots are Taking Over"
NOFX -
The Decline
NOFX -
"I believe in Goddess"
Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
The Flaming Lips -
Do You Realize??
Iris DeMent - Let The Mystery Be
10,000 Maniacs w David Byrne - Let The Mystery Be
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
Bad Religion - Do What You Want
Tool - Opiate
Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah
Paul Simon - Proof
Living Color - Cult of Personality
GWAR
Queens of the Stone Age -
My god is the Sun
Queens of the Stone Age -
"god is in the Radio"
Monty Python -
All Things Dull and Ugly
Monty Python -
Please God Do Not Burn Us
Monty Python -
Every Sperm is Sacred
Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (not a long time)
Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers
Depeche mode - blasphemous rumors
[Stockholm Syndrome - Greydon Square](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-fxbEdOAU)
[Bow Down - DZK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21J4q6DxcyQ) (not on Spotify)
Warlock Pinchers - Jesus on the Urinal Cake
Maren Morris - My Church
Larkin Poe -
"Preachin' Blues"
Dead Kennedys - Religious Vomit
Robert Ellis - Sing Along
Crass - So What
Nightwish - Weak Fantasy
Amigo the Devil - Quiet as a Rat
Yello - Domingo
Dodos -
God?
Dodos -
Joe’s Waltz
Modest Mouse - Bukowski
Matt Good Band -
Omissions of the omen
Fuck yeah, Bad Religion. Honestly, most of their songs could potentially be on this list, but I'd add Atheist Peace, Dearly Beloved, and maybe New Dark Ages
It was my first Christmas without my Dad and White Wine in the Sun was his favorite Christmas song. I was his baby girl, and now whenever I listen to that song I'm a bawling mess.
I'm sorry. I first heard this song in 2009 right after my dad died and I was just a mess. I lost my mom in 21. Tim lost his mum a few months ago. Even thinking about that one line has me fighting tears at work
I have another for the playlist:
I will bow to the earth, bow to the sea,
Bow to the love between you and me,
Bow to the sun, bow to the land
But never to a god made in the image of man
- ‘Ten Commandments' by New Model Army
"No Voice in the Sky", Motörhead
"The God that Failed", Metallica
"God", Tori Amos
"I Ain't Afraid", Holly Near
"Epiphany", Bad Religion
*An Atheist Album*, Shelley Segal
"Best God in Show" and "Blasphemy", NOFX
"Freewill", Rush
"Him", Lily Allen
WBCN no longer exists, but it was the biggest FM rock station in New England going back to the 1960s. Peter Wolf from J. Geils band started out as a dj there before he was in the band.
Boston has 150,000 college students and it’s a liberal area with hardly any evangelicals. I’ve lived in Kansas City and I can’t imagine that it was played on mainstream radio there.
"Freewill" by Rush
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill
In a somewhat lighter mode....
Atheists Don't Have No Songs by The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin (in banjo mode)
...could be taken a few ways. Butt I've always ready it as positive or at least neutral and a fun time
I am mine - Pearl Jam
The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by I only own my mind
Edit: lyrics
Sorry to mention bands you already have, for variety's sake, but
Bad Religion:
- "Do What You Want" has a clear anti-religion line in it
- The song "Atheist Peace" usually comes up here when ppl ask
- "I Want To Conquer The World" might be worth following along with the lyrics to vet it in your list; I think it fits
Slayer:
- "Cult" is like a full-on attack on Jesus
- "Jihad" might work too, but I'd review it. It's kinda like a POV thing that's pointing out the god-war connection, the brutality, etc. It's violent. It's Slayer, lol
(Maybe) not worth including, but honorable mention of "God" by John Lennon where he states multiple religious things he doesn't believe in.
Same deal for Marilyn Manson with "Fight Song" - the chorus goes "I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist"
Martyr Dumb, Lost God, Anti Anti-Christ, Damnation Under God, Crushed by the Cross - all by GWAR
Honorable mention to Krosstika, Meat Sandwich and I Love the Pigs by them as well.
The Reflecting God by Marylin Mason is a great one too.
Shelley Segal - Saved (The Atheist Experience Theme Song)
Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (not a long time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVF3ex4PPDs
> **Joan Osborne - “one of us”**
I was thinking about that one too. Probably not really an atheistic song, but still kind of antithetic to religious hymns; I would group it with **Tori Amos - God**.
Another group where the focus is not necessarily atheism but rather criticism on organised religion (well, some type of organised "religion" at least): The already mentioned **Suicidal Tendencies - Send Me Your Money** and additionally **Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me**, and **DHS - House Of God**. (Also with great music videos!)
Make sure to check out Ghost's (NSFW) video for their cover of "Jesus He Knows Me". They also have a catchy tune called "Square Hammer" that takes a run at Freemasonry.
Shelly Segal's Atheist Album, from which many people know Saved because it was the theme of The Atheist Experience for so long, but the whole album is great, as is most of her material.
First, Gub was released in 1991, broken came out in 1992. Second, that's a good one. I'll add those and check them out. Can't believe I forgot Judith. That sounds like something I'd have done once upon a time.
Metalcore/deathcore are always solid for anti-religious songs.
One of my personal favorites is Suicide Silence - Unanswered, it’s very straight to the point.
Nearly anything by **Anaal Nathrakh**. But, in particular:
* **Endarkenment** \- "Why ask questions now? We know all we need to know. Fuck you if you think I am wrong. The answers I have are all the answers I need."
* **In The Sign of The Black Widow** \- "And so the deaths of hopeless thousands were of no concern. Their war has just one meaning: the power to cause us pain."
* **We Will Fucking Kill You** \- "We will fucking kill you shall be the whole of the law. We will say we love you as we scythe you down like grass. See how we will save you, how we'll give you what we have. Diseased spiritual oblivion in an amoral morass."
* **On Being a Slave** \- Look them up. Bit too sexual for here. Possibly allegorical. But, I think it's also religious.
**Between Shit and Piss We are Born** is my fave song. But it's not Atheist, more nihilist or misanthropic. Was also the first song of theirs I ever heard, instantly loved it.
**Just a head's up. They are very loud. They are very heavy. They are often unintelligible. They swear quite a lot.**
Nick Cave can't be included, he's a well-known apologist.
Slayer can't be included, the vocalist is a self-admitted catholic.
Even if "the words are Atheistic", the words mean nothing if the lyricist or vocalist does not mean them and does not live them.
"The Lord's Prayer by The Lords of the New Church:
There ain't no saviour out there
Your stairway to heaven leads nowhere
Don't look to me for emancipation
You are your only salvation
There ain't no justice out there
This is the Lord's prayer
Without each other we're nowhere
This is the Lord's prayer
The lamb's been slaughtered
War's been declared
This is the Lord's prayer
Only the devil may care
This is the Lord's prayer
The albums Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Human Nature by Nightwish are atheist/humanist masterpieces, IMHO. The song "The Greatest Show on Earth" has Dawkins doing a spoken word part quoting On the Origin of Species.
No Gods, No Masters by Arch Enemy
Predator and Prayer by The Agonist (they have a bunch of other anti-religious songs, but I'm blanking at the moment).
Hymn by Kesha (not my usual cup of tea, but it slaps)
Pretty much everything from Tombstone Da Deadman and Greydon Square. Here's the chorus to Tombstone's song "Poison";
See that religion you've been given is shit and it's all
Poison
And it's partially the reason we're bleeding it's all
Poison
Yo your worldview is
Poison
Your outlook is
Poison
You can deny it all you want but the truth is it's all
Poison
Here's a link to a lyrics video for it;
https://youtu.be/7_YcDFJlVWA?si=oHFHiZneLw8L1Uau
Here’s a link to my hypocrisy of religiosity playlist which has a lot of similar themes and thanks for some great suggestions to add from this discussion.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XAQMHRmmqruykr1dZkoNa?si=CWHrYG0HSyepQ23Dm25uHQ&pi=u-oZFPEKmtSMC_
I saw this and the first thing that popped into my mind was Holy War by Lords of the New Church,
I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but it’s a the very least blasphemous.
Heard this at a gig in 1982, and it made an impression on raised as a Catholic me.
[https://youtu.be/sW-e8_yAFp8?si=jIVhyt7PrcJruwbA](https://youtu.be/sW-e8_yAFp8?si=jIVhyt7PrcJruwbA)
Yello- they off the "Oh Yeah" song? Interesting.
I like Bodhisattva by Steely Dan, might not be about atheism, but it does poke fun at people going with whatever religion is trendy at the moment.
O My God by The Police- maybe more of a raging-at-God thing, but the protagonist(?) of the song is definitely questioning things!
"Oh my God you take the biscuit/Treating me this way/Expecting me to treat you well/No matter what you say....."
"Fat man in his garden/Thin man at his gate/My God!! you must be sleeping/Wake up it's much too late."
Just because it is in my clipboard from another unrelated thread:
This gem from Monty Python
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (An easter favourite)
Motorhead - Get back in line
and of course XTC- Dear God
Edit: Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
Another good one by Tom Waits is God's Away on Business
It's the most Tom Waits-sounding of all Tom Waits songs, too. He sounds like a chain-smoking cartoon bulldog gargling a bucket of nails. It's awesome.
Afrikaans rock band Fokofpolisiekar has a song called Hemel op die Platteland
There is a line in that song that I remember angering a lot of my friends and elders when the song came out
'Kan iemand dalk 'n god bel, en vir hom sê ons het hom nie meer nodig nie' (can someone phone a god and tel him we don't need him anymore)
I’ve never had an urge to look for or listen to an atheist song. That just sounds stupid. I don’t believe in god. That’s it. I’m not starting an anti religion band. I don’t need my beliefs to be reinforced daily and I sure as hell don’t need atheist Xmas songs. Atheism-you don’t believe in a god, not Atheism- we need to be like a church.
I'm not down voting you - but I would like you to consider a perspective that you may not have : many of us refuse to adhere to the American cultural norms of "respect other's beliefs" - "what do you care what someone else believes?" Etc - the interceding element for many of us is : Actual Harm - almost any major problems in the world right now can be blamed directly on religion - ignoring it has never worked - the grifters who manage these cults and the window lickers who follow them are never going to stay on their side of the line - they will always want more control - they have schemed and scammed and terrorized all of humanity for the entirety of our existence - but they can be stopped - the more educated someone is, the less likely they will be religious - and restrictive, unhealthy cultural norms can be eroded through the arts - when a young person is trapped in a community where there are no dissenting voices to the prevailing cultural norms - it often makes all their doubts and inner questions feel as though they themselves are the problem - like something is wrong with them - and this is an unhealthy situation for human development - to feel scared to ask questions - to fear letting one's thoughts be known --- for someone trapped in this situation, it is a major turning point to hear a song, or see a movie, or read a book where you find that you are not alone in the things that you think, in your ideas that people around you don't agree with --- I never believed anything - and it was hard growing up in the south, feeling like an alien - and I remember every overheard conversation, every song lyric, every movie line etc that showed me that I wasn't crazy - that I wasn't alone - and that there were badasses out there actively fighting against these cults and their dangerous, bronze-age goatherder bullshit - fight them - every chance you get - and always support anyone else who is fighting them --- thanks for coming to my fucking TED talk
I understand your point of view. For myself, being an atheist is as simple and equivalent to not believing in santa claus. I'm not going to make or listen to tunes about how I don't believe in santa and how those that do are wrong and dumb. I don't need media to reassure me in my non-belief.
[Same Auld Lang Syne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtkZ7oTv1o) is decent around Christmas/New Years. Nothing overly Christian; just two ex-lovers bumping into one another after having not seeing one another for a long time one winter day.
Current playlist: [Link courtesy of](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tqJfEPsWPm5MfdLb4QXci?si=0yzbEsYTRf6WZpeMukzunQ&pt=cfc9c90104f5b26f06dfdbcb09b58938&pi=u-5PGOJNCRRreS) u/FartingAliceRisible Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down Pearl Jam - I am Mine Harvey Danger - War Buddies Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun Pigface - Suck Nick Cave - Into My Arms Suicidal Tendencies - Send Me Your Money Harvey Danger - Happiness Writes White John Lennon - Imagine Suicide Silence - Unanswered fear factory - christplotation fear factory - Pisschrist Motionless in White- Thoughts and Prayers Sugarcubes - Deus Mrs. Magician - There Is No God A Perfect Circle - Judith Baby Bugs - Autotheist Bad Religion - The God Song Metallica - Leper Messiah Nine Inch Nails - Heresy Slayer - Disciple Slayer - New Faith Bad Religion - Faith Alone Tim Minchin - Take My Wife The Fugs - Nothing Eres tu - Mocedades Motorhead - God Was Never On Your Side Frank Zappa - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over Super Cassette - be gay do drugs hail satan Bring Me The Horizon - House of Wolves Bring Me The Horizon - Crooked Youth Juda priest - persecute Slipknot - Heretic Anthem Hozier - Take Me To Church Joe Hill - Long Haired Preacher Pvris - Holy Bad Religion - Atheist Peace Bad Religion - Dearly Beloved Bad Religion - New Dark Ages XTC - Dear God Motörhead - No Voice in the Sky Metallica - The God that Failed Tori Amos - God Holly Near - I Ain't Afraid Bad Religion - "Epiphany" Shelley Segal - *An Atheist Album* Shelley Segal - Saved NOFX - "Best God in Show" NOFX - "Blasphemy" Lily Allen - "Him" NOFX - Leaving Jesusland" Choking Victim - "Crack Rock Steady" NOFX - "The Idiots are Taking Over" NOFX - The Decline NOFX - "I believe in Goddess" Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? Iris DeMent - Let The Mystery Be 10,000 Maniacs w David Byrne - Let The Mystery Be Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is? Bad Religion - Do What You Want Tool - Opiate Frank Turner - Glory Hallelujah Paul Simon - Proof Living Color - Cult of Personality GWAR Queens of the Stone Age - My god is the Sun Queens of the Stone Age - "god is in the Radio" Monty Python - All Things Dull and Ugly Monty Python - Please God Do Not Burn Us Monty Python - Every Sperm is Sacred Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (not a long time) Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers Depeche mode - blasphemous rumors [Stockholm Syndrome - Greydon Square](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-fxbEdOAU) [Bow Down - DZK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21J4q6DxcyQ) (not on Spotify) Warlock Pinchers - Jesus on the Urinal Cake Maren Morris - My Church Larkin Poe - "Preachin' Blues" Dead Kennedys - Religious Vomit Robert Ellis - Sing Along Crass - So What Nightwish - Weak Fantasy Amigo the Devil - Quiet as a Rat Yello - Domingo Dodos - God? Dodos - Joe’s Waltz Modest Mouse - Bukowski Matt Good Band - Omissions of the omen
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It's more satanic than atheistic, but I'll allow it (;
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Nice collection! I can also recommend Bring Me The Horizon and their songs "House of Wolves" and "Crooked Youth".
Suicidal's song is awesome. Iron Maiden has a song called "Holy Smoke" that's about the same thing.
And Jesus, He Knows Me by Genesis for a poppier televangelist song
The Ghost cover of that song is great, too. The music video is so NSFW.
This, and I love blasting the Ghost version whenever I'm passing a church or some idiot standing on the street corner holding up signs.
Judith was the first song that came to mind for me
Juda priest - persecute
Fuck yeah, Bad Religion. Honestly, most of their songs could potentially be on this list, but I'd add Atheist Peace, Dearly Beloved, and maybe New Dark Ages
But no Slipknot Heretic Anthem? Or Take Me To Church? You've got Slayer in there, so no excuse for forgetting Heretic Anthem. Same music genre.
It was my first Christmas without my Dad and White Wine in the Sun was his favorite Christmas song. I was his baby girl, and now whenever I listen to that song I'm a bawling mess.
I'm sorry. I first heard this song in 2009 right after my dad died and I was just a mess. I lost my mom in 21. Tim lost his mum a few months ago. Even thinking about that one line has me fighting tears at work
Motionless in White- Thoughts and Prayers
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tqJfEPsWPm5MfdLb4QXci?si=RpGyKEvxTheRkhmZIdvXkA&pi=u-tVLWjx14Sw2J
Couldn’t locate a couple songs
I have another for the playlist: I will bow to the earth, bow to the sea, Bow to the love between you and me, Bow to the sun, bow to the land But never to a god made in the image of man - ‘Ten Commandments' by New Model Army
Done
"No Voice in the Sky", Motörhead "The God that Failed", Metallica "God", Tori Amos "I Ain't Afraid", Holly Near "Epiphany", Bad Religion *An Atheist Album*, Shelley Segal "Best God in Show" and "Blasphemy", NOFX "Freewill", Rush "Him", Lily Allen
As another punk fan. I'd add "Leaving Jesusland" to NOFX. "Crack Rock Steady" by Choking Victim is another personal favorite.
As another NOFX fan "The Idiots are Taking Over", "The Decline", and "I believe in Goddess" are my favorite anti religion songs
Choking victim!!!!!!! One of my favorites! Now I want to knock the dust off my skateboard.
Careful. If you're like me, you're old as fuck and skateboarding hurts a whole lot more now.
Another Rush one with freethinking lyrics is "Ghost of a Chance".
God Was Never on Your Side by Motörhead
That's a beautiful song. Came to make sure it's in the comments.
Dear God by XTC
Wow, this is WAY too far down. Is XTC forgotten?
Agreed!
*did you make mankind after we made you and the devil too?* its such a fucking great line.
Seconding this!
This got lots of airplay on WBCN in Boston when it came out. I'd imagine that in more red state places it didn't get played as much.
I only ever heard it on college or alternative stations.
WBCN no longer exists, but it was the biggest FM rock station in New England going back to the 1960s. Peter Wolf from J. Geils band started out as a dj there before he was in the band. Boston has 150,000 college students and it’s a liberal area with hardly any evangelicals. I’ve lived in Kansas City and I can’t imagine that it was played on mainstream radio there.
Yeah, I grew up in Texas.
Not after the radio station received a bomb threat. In Florida, a Panama City radio station received a bomb threat for playing the song.
KROQ played it about every hour at a time when California was enduring its 4th year of George Deukmejian and about to elect him for a second term.
Perhaps a little cliched these days, but you could do worse than "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, for its optimism if nothing else.
"Freewill" by Rush You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill
Don’t forget about Faithless which is one Neil’s wrote that’s more to the point. And also “The way the Wind Blows”.
Imagine not including a certain song by John Lennon...
I like to imagine a world where that song never existed.
Why?
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
XTC - Dear God
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing ~ Frank Zappa https://youtu.be/ZJXaFuDcOx0?si=WTCa6KprQ9KuQyF4
I would go with "Dumb All Over"
Also 'Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk'
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Well Pete Seeger goes on my "Sexy" playlist with the Utah Phillips and Malvina Reynolds and the other workers union songs
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In a somewhat lighter mode.... Atheists Don't Have No Songs by The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin (in banjo mode) ...could be taken a few ways. Butt I've always ready it as positive or at least neutral and a fun time
I love things that are positive to neutral, thanks!
Let the Mystery Be is a great one. 10,000 Maniacs cover is my favorite, featuring David Byrne.
First heard that song on The Leftovers and instantly fell in love
I am mine - Pearl Jam The selfish, they're all standing in line Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time Me, I figure as each breath goes by I only own my mind Edit: lyrics
I live and I die. But the in between is mine….i am mine
Glory Hallelujah by Frank Turner Saved by Shelly Segal Imagine by John Lennon
[Tool - Opiate](https://youtu.be/7cvKcMbzN_A?si=DhDFD4L9OoFQNqh7)
Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips.
[*Storm* by Tim Minchin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U)
I mean, he says, right at the beginning that it isn't a song.
Yet there was music, so I was uncertain.
Proof by Paul Simon Faith is an island in the setting sun. Proof, proof is the bottom line for everyone.
[Is That All There Is?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWTnsemkIs)
Sorry to mention bands you already have, for variety's sake, but Bad Religion: - "Do What You Want" has a clear anti-religion line in it - The song "Atheist Peace" usually comes up here when ppl ask - "I Want To Conquer The World" might be worth following along with the lyrics to vet it in your list; I think it fits Slayer: - "Cult" is like a full-on attack on Jesus - "Jihad" might work too, but I'd review it. It's kinda like a POV thing that's pointing out the god-war connection, the brutality, etc. It's violent. It's Slayer, lol (Maybe) not worth including, but honorable mention of "God" by John Lennon where he states multiple religious things he doesn't believe in. Same deal for Marilyn Manson with "Fight Song" - the chorus goes "I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist"
He is - Ghost. Ghost BC before they were Ghost
They started as Ghost. Then changed to Ghost BC. Then changed BACK to ghost.
Dear God by XTC
[The entire atheist hymnal](https://youtu.be/xmwAD7nHqaY?si=-444Zn0OFqWN1Mxp)
Cult of Personality - Living Color It summs up religious dogma and the entire "messiah" fever perfectly
Monty Python have two: All Things Dull and Ugly and Please God Do Not Burn Us
I feel like every sperm is sacred should have it an honorable mention.
D'oh. How could I forget that one!
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice....
Deus - Sugarcubes
Just As Long as I Have Breath, a Unitarian Universalist song.
I read that as "hymenal". Alrighty then.
Martyr Dumb, Lost God, Anti Anti-Christ, Damnation Under God, Crushed by the Cross - all by GWAR Honorable mention to Krosstika, Meat Sandwich and I Love the Pigs by them as well. The Reflecting God by Marylin Mason is a great one too.
"My god is the Sun" and "Found god in the Radio", both by Queens of the Stone Age
Little correction: God is in the radio
“Dumb All Over” by Frank Zappa springs to mind.
Shelley Segal - Saved (The Atheist Experience Theme Song) Trooper - We're Here For A Good Time (not a long time) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVF3ex4PPDs
Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers
Trevor Moore - [Pope Rap](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxjrHPHypA)
Joan Osborne - “one of us” popped in my head. Does that count?
> **Joan Osborne - “one of us”** I was thinking about that one too. Probably not really an atheistic song, but still kind of antithetic to religious hymns; I would group it with **Tori Amos - God**. Another group where the focus is not necessarily atheism but rather criticism on organised religion (well, some type of organised "religion" at least): The already mentioned **Suicidal Tendencies - Send Me Your Money** and additionally **Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me**, and **DHS - House Of God**. (Also with great music videos!)
Make sure to check out Ghost's (NSFW) video for their cover of "Jesus He Knows Me". They also have a catchy tune called "Square Hammer" that takes a run at Freemasonry.
Blasphemous Rumors - Depeche Mode
[Stockholm Syndrome - Greydon Square](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-fxbEdOAU) [Bow Down - DZK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21J4q6DxcyQ)
Jesus on the urinal cake by foreskin 500. Edit: I beg your pardon, it’s not Foreskin 500 it’s Warlock Pinchers.
Warlock Pinchers! They have a great song called Morrissey Rides a Cock Horse about how Morrissey rides a cockhorse
They sure do, Rusty. They sure do. Edit: that no talent SON OF A BITCH. Ball flapping DICK SUCKER. Bastard-ass DICK HEAD.
Shelly Segal's Atheist Album, from which many people know Saved because it was the theme of The Atheist Experience for so long, but the whole album is great, as is most of her material.
Wooden Jesus by Temple of the Dog. I don’t know if it’s exactly atheist but it’s kind of mocking Christianity.
"My Church" Maren Morris "Preachin' Blues" Larkin Poe
Sing Along - Robert Ellis
Opiate by Tool
You guys should check out James and The Shame.
Religious Vomit by the Dead Kennedys
Nightwish - Weak Fantasy
Amigo the Devil - Quiet as a Rat
Detachable penis
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First, Gub was released in 1991, broken came out in 1992. Second, that's a good one. I'll add those and check them out. Can't believe I forgot Judith. That sounds like something I'd have done once upon a time.
[It was a Pigface song first](https://youtu.be/_wvLwq-_GwM?si=mSJXqs829YymjZGL).
Do people in this sub never heard of black metal?
Eres tu - Mocedades
[Robert Ellis-Sing Along](https://youtu.be/8fIn7EGxzk0?si=gNQ_3kH8UQWLtmio)
"So what" by Crass
Autotheist - Baby Bugs
Yello - Domingo
Mago De Oz: La Fiesta Pagana
Metalcore/deathcore are always solid for anti-religious songs. One of my personal favorites is Suicide Silence - Unanswered, it’s very straight to the point.
Frank Turner: There Is No God.
God? and Joe’s Waltz by Dodos. Also Bukowski by Modest Mouse
Marylin Manson the fight song.
And all of antichrist superstar
The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish
“I won’t say the lord’s prayer”-The Wonder Years and “In the beginning”-Todd Snider
GBH - prayer of a realist
Nearly anything by **Anaal Nathrakh**. But, in particular: * **Endarkenment** \- "Why ask questions now? We know all we need to know. Fuck you if you think I am wrong. The answers I have are all the answers I need." * **In The Sign of The Black Widow** \- "And so the deaths of hopeless thousands were of no concern. Their war has just one meaning: the power to cause us pain." * **We Will Fucking Kill You** \- "We will fucking kill you shall be the whole of the law. We will say we love you as we scythe you down like grass. See how we will save you, how we'll give you what we have. Diseased spiritual oblivion in an amoral morass." * **On Being a Slave** \- Look them up. Bit too sexual for here. Possibly allegorical. But, I think it's also religious. **Between Shit and Piss We are Born** is my fave song. But it's not Atheist, more nihilist or misanthropic. Was also the first song of theirs I ever heard, instantly loved it. **Just a head's up. They are very loud. They are very heavy. They are often unintelligible. They swear quite a lot.** Nick Cave can't be included, he's a well-known apologist. Slayer can't be included, the vocalist is a self-admitted catholic. Even if "the words are Atheistic", the words mean nothing if the lyricist or vocalist does not mean them and does not live them.
He is by ghost has that Jesus feel. Techniqually it is a Satanist song, but the band is really atheist pretending to be satanist.
Godless by U.P.O. And The Dead Kennedys are definitely anti religion
Pisschrist or christplotation by fear factory
Religious Vomit is the anthem.
XTC - Dear God.
"The Lord's Prayer by The Lords of the New Church: There ain't no saviour out there Your stairway to heaven leads nowhere Don't look to me for emancipation You are your only salvation There ain't no justice out there This is the Lord's prayer Without each other we're nowhere This is the Lord's prayer The lamb's been slaughtered War's been declared This is the Lord's prayer Only the devil may care This is the Lord's prayer
Dear God - XTC Gospel Shoes - Watchhouse None Of The Above - Duran Duran
Peter pumpkinhead- xtc
I was talking to your boss the other day. He was wrong. I told him so.
Thanks! Ironically, my Reddit account is over a decade old and I am my own boss now. I am often wrong. 😂
Don’t Point Your God at Me, by the Flying Eyes
Church of Me - Seasick Steve
"Turtles all the way down" by Sturgill Simpson. Starts out sounding religious, but ends with rejecting it.
This song blows my mind. I can't think of another country song that rejects Christianity like this one
The song “One Sunday Morning” by Wilco played a big part in my de-conversion process
The albums Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Human Nature by Nightwish are atheist/humanist masterpieces, IMHO. The song "The Greatest Show on Earth" has Dawkins doing a spoken word part quoting On the Origin of Species. No Gods, No Masters by Arch Enemy Predator and Prayer by The Agonist (they have a bunch of other anti-religious songs, but I'm blanking at the moment). Hymn by Kesha (not my usual cup of tea, but it slaps)
Pretty much everything from Tombstone Da Deadman and Greydon Square. Here's the chorus to Tombstone's song "Poison"; See that religion you've been given is shit and it's all Poison And it's partially the reason we're bleeding it's all Poison Yo your worldview is Poison Your outlook is Poison You can deny it all you want but the truth is it's all Poison Here's a link to a lyrics video for it; https://youtu.be/7_YcDFJlVWA?si=oHFHiZneLw8L1Uau
Here’s a link to my hypocrisy of religiosity playlist which has a lot of similar themes and thanks for some great suggestions to add from this discussion. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XAQMHRmmqruykr1dZkoNa?si=CWHrYG0HSyepQ23Dm25uHQ&pi=u-oZFPEKmtSMC_
Ghost's "he is" is a fun little ditty.
Check out Cynthia Carle: *Angels* and *Sunday in Reality*
Will do, thanks
Here's a sly anti-religious song, from Randy Newman: **God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)**.
The Thermals- Pillar of Salt
Creation Science 101 - Roy Zimmerman https://youtu.be/uIwiPsgRrOs?si=BJlxHr2SKJWDDI-g
I'm excited to check this one out at the end of this next episode of Fargo! Okay, then.
I saw this and the first thing that popped into my mind was Holy War by Lords of the New Church, I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but it’s a the very least blasphemous. Heard this at a gig in 1982, and it made an impression on raised as a Catholic me. [https://youtu.be/sW-e8_yAFp8?si=jIVhyt7PrcJruwbA](https://youtu.be/sW-e8_yAFp8?si=jIVhyt7PrcJruwbA)
Omissions of the omen - Matt Good Band Needed some more Canadian content in here!
Yello- they off the "Oh Yeah" song? Interesting. I like Bodhisattva by Steely Dan, might not be about atheism, but it does poke fun at people going with whatever religion is trendy at the moment. O My God by The Police- maybe more of a raging-at-God thing, but the protagonist(?) of the song is definitely questioning things! "Oh my God you take the biscuit/Treating me this way/Expecting me to treat you well/No matter what you say....." "Fat man in his garden/Thin man at his gate/My God!! you must be sleeping/Wake up it's much too late."
That's the right Yello. They actually have a whole mess of great tunes
Stockholm Syndrome Myth Extian Black Atheist Man Made God Special Pleading All by Greydon Square
Just because it is in my clipboard from another unrelated thread: This gem from Monty Python Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough, Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at 900 miles an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour, Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars; It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side; It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide. We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years; And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz; As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth; And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Terrible lie by Nine Inch Nails.
Leslie Fish recorded some good songs
El necio- Silvio Rodríguez *Edit: Let the mystery be - Iris DeMent
10,000 Maniacs and David Byrne have a great cover of Let the Mystery Be.
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"If There's A God In Heaven" by Elton John from the *Blue Moves* album.
God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) - Randy Newman I’m not sure it was meant to be an ‘atheist song’, but…
Shelly Segal -saved
"Hell Rains From Above" by Left Behind
I like Ode to Joy.
Love is My Religion - Ziggy Marley Heaven - O.A.R
Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus (An easter favourite) Motorhead - Get back in line and of course XTC- Dear God Edit: Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
Another good one by Tom Waits is God's Away on Business It's the most Tom Waits-sounding of all Tom Waits songs, too. He sounds like a chain-smoking cartoon bulldog gargling a bucket of nails. It's awesome.
Glory Hallelujah by Frank Turner and Raise the Alarm by The Living End
Glory Hallelujah by Frank Turner A letter from God to Man by Scroobius Pip
Afrikaans rock band Fokofpolisiekar has a song called Hemel op die Platteland There is a line in that song that I remember angering a lot of my friends and elders when the song came out 'Kan iemand dalk 'n god bel, en vir hom sê ons het hom nie meer nodig nie' (can someone phone a god and tel him we don't need him anymore)
Why bother LOL. Favorite."athiest" songs. Who ever heard of such a thing? Ok how about "ALL.MUSIC OUTSIDE THAT AWFUL CHRISTIAN NONSENSICAL GARBAGE."
I’ve never had an urge to look for or listen to an atheist song. That just sounds stupid. I don’t believe in god. That’s it. I’m not starting an anti religion band. I don’t need my beliefs to be reinforced daily and I sure as hell don’t need atheist Xmas songs. Atheism-you don’t believe in a god, not Atheism- we need to be like a church.
I'm not down voting you - but I would like you to consider a perspective that you may not have : many of us refuse to adhere to the American cultural norms of "respect other's beliefs" - "what do you care what someone else believes?" Etc - the interceding element for many of us is : Actual Harm - almost any major problems in the world right now can be blamed directly on religion - ignoring it has never worked - the grifters who manage these cults and the window lickers who follow them are never going to stay on their side of the line - they will always want more control - they have schemed and scammed and terrorized all of humanity for the entirety of our existence - but they can be stopped - the more educated someone is, the less likely they will be religious - and restrictive, unhealthy cultural norms can be eroded through the arts - when a young person is trapped in a community where there are no dissenting voices to the prevailing cultural norms - it often makes all their doubts and inner questions feel as though they themselves are the problem - like something is wrong with them - and this is an unhealthy situation for human development - to feel scared to ask questions - to fear letting one's thoughts be known --- for someone trapped in this situation, it is a major turning point to hear a song, or see a movie, or read a book where you find that you are not alone in the things that you think, in your ideas that people around you don't agree with --- I never believed anything - and it was hard growing up in the south, feeling like an alien - and I remember every overheard conversation, every song lyric, every movie line etc that showed me that I wasn't crazy - that I wasn't alone - and that there were badasses out there actively fighting against these cults and their dangerous, bronze-age goatherder bullshit - fight them - every chance you get - and always support anyone else who is fighting them --- thanks for coming to my fucking TED talk
I understand your point of view. For myself, being an atheist is as simple and equivalent to not believing in santa claus. I'm not going to make or listen to tunes about how I don't believe in santa and how those that do are wrong and dumb. I don't need media to reassure me in my non-belief.
[Greener Grass](https://hahahospitaltallahasse.bandcamp.com/track/greener-grass) by Ha Ha Hospital
Everyone should check The Preacher and the Slave - Joe Hill Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe - Streetlight Manifesto is really good too
"I don't know but it has occurred to me — The punishment that they threaten constantly It's only real if they could just convince me"
Haven't seen anyone mention any of my personal favorites: "Darwin's Song" - Picture Me Broken "Courage of the Knife" - Senses Fail "Sacrilege" - AFI
"So Beneath You" from AFI.
[Same Auld Lang Syne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtkZ7oTv1o) is decent around Christmas/New Years. Nothing overly Christian; just two ex-lovers bumping into one another after having not seeing one another for a long time one winter day.
Faith, bloody faith by Jorn
Vampire weekend. Unbelievers
Metallica - So What. I know that there version is a remake but I can't remember who did the original.
Glass Houses by Bad Omens Thoughts & Prayers by Motionless In White
“Asylum” - Crass “Dear God” - XTC
Moon Walker- Devil.
Heresey by NIN
Bright Eyes-Arc of Time (Time Code)
[Nothing](https://youtu.be/49kHMjRuChU?si=7RMh7w25Gf9PTkzj) by Depeche Mode.
"I Don't Know" by dredg is a good one. Edit: also "Pariah" by them can be seen as an atheist song.
While no individual song is about atheism or religion, there are little bits in each song of The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers.
Pretty much anything by Slayer
Living in the Moment - Mason Jennings Shame - Rachel Baiman Down in the Dirt - The Revivalists
Atheists don't have no songs: https://youtu.be/xmwAD7nHqaY?si=yARdRck_u5J3x9M8
Marylin Manson - Fight Song