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- From: llensink@sci.kun.nl (Leonard Lensink)
- Subject: Re: Atheism in pop culture
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:34:48 GMT
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- Brad Pierce writes:
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- [snip snip]
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- >Can you think of any examples of explicit atheism expressed in pop
- >songs or other pop culture works?
-
- >-- Brad Pierce
-
- My two favourite songs about God aren't exactly atheistic, but they
- show the sarcasm I appreciate in Elvis Costello and Randy Newman.
- Here comes for those interested:
-
- God's comic (D.P.A MacManus)
-
- I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny feller
- The crowd would hoot and holler for more
- I wore a drunk's red nose for applause
- Oh yes, I was a comical priest
- "With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece"
- Drooling the drink and the lipstick and the greasepaint
- down the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar
-
- Chorus:
- Now I'd dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead
- And I am going on to meet my reward
- I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
- He might of never heard of God's comic
-
- So there he was on a waterbed
- Drinking cola of a mystery brand
- Reading an airport novelette, listening to
- Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Requiem"
- He said, before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about my son"
- "I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk and wondering if
- I should have given the world to the monkeys"
-
- Chorus
-
- I'm going to take a little trip down paradise's endless shores
- They say that travel broadens the mind, 'till you can't get your
- head out of doors
-
- I'm sitting here on the top of the world
- I hang around in the longest night
- Until each beast has gone to bed and then I say "God Bless" and turn
- out the light
- While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe and you beg and you
- promise
- And you bargain and you plead
- Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
- It's the big white beard I suppose
- I'm going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold
- I might be gone for a while if you need me
-
- Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead
- And you're all going on to meet your reward
- Are you scared, are you scared, are you scared, are you scared?
- You might have never heard but God's comic
-
-
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- That's why I love mankind (R. Newman)
-
- Cain slew Abel
- Seth knew not why
- If the children of Israel are supposed to multiply
- Why must any of the children die?
- So I asked the Lord
- And the Lord said: "Man means nothing
- He means less to me
- Than the loweliest cactus flower
- Than the humblest yucca tree
- Chases 'round his desert
- He thinks that's where I'll be
- That's why I love mankind
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- I record in horror the fineness of thee
- From the squalor and the filth and misery
- How we laugh up here in heaven
- The praise you all have for me
- That's why I love mankind"
-
- Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
- Buddhist and the Hindu join on sattellite tv
- Pick the 4 greatest priests and they begin to speak
- They say: "Lord Plague is on the world, Lord no man is free
- The temples that we built to you are tumbling to the sea
- Lord if you won't take care of us won't you please please let us be?"
- And the lord said, and the lord said:
- "I burnt down your cities, how blind you must be
- I take from your your children and you say how blessed are we
- You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
- That's why I love mankind, you really need me
- That's why I love mankind"
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- Leonard
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