Like many staunch atheists the only thing that might ever make me revert to churchgoing youth is the beauty of sacred music. Nothing imparts a sense of the numinous like Mozart’s Requiem, for instance, whether you’re religious or not. So my fellow atheists are going to have to do a damned sight better than this atheist’s anthem if they want to persuade anyone of their rightness.
Cute, but it’s no Handel’s Messiah:
THE ATHEIST ANTHEM March Tempo
I AM AN A-THEISTS, FREE FROM MIND CON-TROL,
I HAVE NO GOD-S, DE-VILS OR A SOUL,
MY LIFE IS HAP-PY, AS PEO-PLE CAN SEE,
CAUSE I LOVE NA-TURE, AND HU-MAN-I-TY.ALL THROUGH THE A-GES, IG-NOR-ANCE PRE-VAILS,
RE-LIG-OUS LEAD-ERS, PREA-CHING FAIR-Y TALES,
STOP ALL YOUR RAV-ING, AND YOUR REH-TORIC,
YOUR RE-E-LIG-IONS, MAKE ME SICK.LOGIC AND SCI-ENCE, GOOD FOR YOU AND ME,
NOT A FOOL-ISH BI-BLE, OR A DE-I-TY,
I WANT REALITY, AS MY GOAL,
I AM AN A-THEIST, FREE FROM MIND CON-TROL,
I AM AN A-THEIST, FREE FROM MIND CONTROL,
I AM AN A-THEIST, FREE FROM MIND CONTROL,
FREE– ———- FROM MIND CON-TROL. YES!Lyrics & Music by: David M. Mandell O May 2002 Atheists of Silicon Valley, Mt. View, CA. www.godlessgeeks.com
Have a great grand goddamn good godless day!
Ow. My ears hurt.
(courtesy of Pharyngula commenter Moses)
