An atheist song

July 9, 2013 • 10:41 am

You will excuse me if serious posts are thin on the ground for the next few days. I’m at the South Point Hotel in Vegas, home of The Amazing Meeting, and the place is huge!

Anyway, I wasn’t aware that Steve Martin was an atheist, but I suspected he must be, simply because he’s smart and savvy and doesn’t like cant.  Anyway, he apparently wrote this song, billed (probably erroneously) as “the first atheist” song.

Here he performs “Atheists don’t have no songs” with the Steep Canyon Rangers on the Letterman show.  The lyrics are below:

[Narration]: You know, religious people have such beautiful music and art; and athiests really have nothing…Until now! This is the entire atheist hymnal, right here: a little song called “Athiests Don’t Have No Songs”

Lyrics

(Christians have)
Christians have their hymns and pages.
(Hymns and pages)
Hava Nagila’s for the Jews.
(For the Jews)
Baptists have the rock of ages.
(Rock of ages)
Atheists just sing the blues.

(Romantics play)
Romantics play Claire de Lune.
(Claire de Lune)
Born agains sing He is risen.
But no one ever wrote a tune.
(Wrote a tune)
For godless existentialism.
(For godless existentialism)

For Atheists,
There’s no good news.
They’ll never sing,
A song of faith.

In their songs,
They have a rule.
The “he” is always lowercase.
The “he” is always lowercase.
(Some folks sing)
Some folks sing a Bach cantata.
(Bach cantata)
Lutherans get Christmas trees.
Atheist songs add up to nada.
(Up to nada)
But they do have Sundays free.
(Have Sundays free)

(Pentecostals sing)
Pentecostals sing, sing to heaven,
(Sing to heaven)
Gothics had the books of scrolls,
(Numerologists count)
Numerologists count, count to seven,
(Count to seven)
Atheists have rock and roll.

For Atheists,
There’s no good news.
They’ll never sing,
A song of faith.

In their songs,
They have a rule.
The “he” is always lowercase.
The “he” is always lowercase.

Atheists
… Atheists
… Atheists
Don’t Have No SONGS!

(Christians have)
Christians have their hymns and pages.
(Hymns and pages)
Hava Nagila’s for the Jews.
(For the Jews)
Baptists have the rock of ages.
(Rock of ages)
Atheists just sing the blues.

Catholics,
Dress up for Mass.
And listen to,
Gregorian chants.

Atheists,
Just take a pass.
Watch football in their underpants.
Watch football in their underpants.

Atheists
… Atheists
… Atheists
Don’t Have No SONGS!
(Don’t Have No Songs)

h/t: Diana

86 thoughts on “An atheist song”

    1. I didn’t know they made Country songs like that! Not bad!

      Here’s another country feller who’s pissed off at Jesus, but for different, more humorous reasons. (Hayes Carll’s “She Left Me For Jesus”)

      http://www. youtube .com/watch?v=AyxEO9dqi44

  4. The Galaxy Song from Python’s Meaning of Life?
    May not specifically use the word ‘atheist’ but…. I would be totally shocked if any of the Python team had a spark of religion. Their debate with the Archibishop of Canterbury and Malcolm Muggeridge in the (discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian) leave little doubt about their views.
    The film took years before it came to Italy where it shocked few Catholics, having shocked Anglicans (Episcopaleans for the Yanks among us). Anyway the song is brilliant:

    1. I love this version too. Really makes me want to watch the show.

      [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo6OCxwUPPg]

      1. Ah! Good thing I reloaded before posting it, that was exactly the one.
        This is the “new” Universe song and like the original one, it’s great. And the images from BBC’s Wonders of Life just go great with it!

    2. It is brilliant through and through, since it gets the science correct despite not having to. (At the time, I believe the galactic disk is now known to be more like 6 kyr out here.)

      Try that with Hollywood when it would help suspend disbelief, I saw that the Pacific Rim will have monsters ‘like dinosaurs with two brains, because they were so large you know’.

      Though I never expected the curvature of space to be so … erotic.

  5. “Catholics,
    Dress up for Mass.
    And listen to,
    Gregorian chants.

    Atheists,
    Just take a pass.
    Watch football in their underpants.
    Watch football in their underpants.”

    This is spot on. Add coffee in unlimited amounts and you have my typical sunday routine.

    1. Speak for yourself. I’d have to be straitjacketed to watch football. 😀

      1. Lol. It doesn’t have to be football. During the off season any ol’ sport will do.

        Right now, it’s Tour De France time. 🙂

  6. Clever.

    But actually, atheists have all the songs.

    We just don’t have an invisible entity listening to us and thinking it’s all about him.

    1. I don’t know. I’d just as soon let them keep “christian rock,” for example. I remember the first time a came across it. I was watching footage from a mega church mass and the preacher had a “famous” christian rock band on stage with him. The whole show was so obviously, and clumsily, targeted at young people I figured that the only possible reason any young people were even in the audience was because their parents made them. It was soooo, campy, condescending and lame. And the christian rock band sounded absolutely horrid.

          1. Stryper though – hair band! Hilarious because they are a hair band AND Christian

      3. Not too long ago I spent a day providing “roving entertainment” at a Christian rock concert. The audience contained everything from Ward and June Cleaver types to old bikers, and most of the music was pretty bland and uninteresting, but the opening acts were X-tian metal bands and I have to admit that I was surprised at the musicality of a few of them. Listening to the music, and seeing them hanging out by their tour busses, the only thing I could conclude was that they had once been “real” metal bands but the money was drying up and the current christian market represented greener pastures.

        They wouldn’t be the first, and the traffic flows in both directions. Think of Sam Cook, who used to be with the Soul Stirrers. Or Aretha Franklin, who has big roots in Gospel music. Artists like Elvis and Little Richard bounced back and forth between Rock ‘n Roll and Gospel for years. Gospel music itself was given a huge shot in the arm by it’s “father”, Thomas A. Dorsey, who used to be known as Georgia Tom Dorsey, author of many ribald Blues songs. Unlike a lot of Bluesmen who “found the lord”, Dorsey never seemed to reject Blues, and his business acumen makes me wonder if his move to Gospel also had pecuniary motivations. Whatever his motivations, he certainly put some “oomph”
        back into Gospel music. It amuses me to think that the guy who wrote “It’s Tight Like That” …

        http://www. youtube .com/watch?v=CuUReqRLAbc

        also wrote “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”…

        http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=as1rsZenwNc

        Although I tend to agree with Mel Brooks’ law, “90% of anything is shit”, I’ve also been surprised too many times to write off any form of music completely. That said, I think it’s probably fair to amend Brooks’ law and say that 99.9% of Christian Rock is shit; that’s why it’s contraction is Crock!

        (Oh, and sorry ’bout the rambling post. I usually just lurk here but there’s something about music that really gets me going!)

  7. As I actually sort of like Rap, my own favorite atheist song is Baba Brinkman’s “Off That”

  8. I’m sure this one counts…

    NSFW (lyrically) and not if you don’t like crude language.

    youtube.com/watch?v=NicfLmpYuy8

    1. I knew that would be G&O. This is a really bad song to have in your head if you go into the office because you run the risk of singing the chorus out loud & that would be embarrassing and also maybe the reason you get fired!

          2. I sent it to my dad and he must’ve played it where my mother could hear it and she scolded us when I visited last. 😉

    2. Hahaha, that’s funny stuff! That’s only the second song I’ve heard by those two, but now I’m gonna have to listen for more!

      1. Garfunkel & Oates are great! You can spend a whole afternoon listening to all their songs.

    1. And Gabriel Fauré, whose Requiem does not have a Dies Irae, wrote of it, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”

  11. “White Wine in the Sun” – a Christmas song for atheists, by the great Tim Minchin! 🙂

    1. That one is a keeper. I think Tim Minchin is way underrated. I can’t get enough of that man.

  12. In “A Problem Like Matilda”, The New Yorker (April 1, 2013), Michael Schulman writes about the translation of Roald Dahl’s heroine, Matilda, by Australian comic, Tim Minchkin. These excerpts from other work, were included in this delightful essay.

    The first is from Minchkin’s atheist Christmas Carol.

    “I am hardly religious
    I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu
    To be honest
    And yes, I have all of the usual objections to consumerism
    To the commercialization of an ancient religion
    To the Westernization of a dead Palestinian”

    And this from a nine-minute poem called “Storm”

    “Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed/ Faith is the denial of observations so that belief can be preserved”

    and later in this rant:

    “Isn’t this enough?
    Just the world?
    Just the beautiful, complex
    Wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
    How does it so fail to hold our attention
    That we have to diminish it with the invention
    Of cheap, man-made myths…?”

  13. A song that must be mentioned is Frank Zappa’s “Dumb All Over”. A lovely “rap” (in 1981) about how dumb god is, and a little ugly on the side. This song appears on an album called You Are What You Is which is highly critical of the then emerging teleevangelist phenomenon. Other songs are “Heavenly Bank Account” and “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing”. Zappa was an important voice for reason and science who sadly died too early. I’m sure he would have been a “horseman” today if he had lived.

    1. Didn’t he once say that one of the keys to raising a happy child was to keep them the hell away from religion?

      1. Yes, that’s one of Frank’s. He had many comments that would make great one-liners. What’s fascinating about Zappa is that he was about the become a monk as late as 18 years old. Just a couple of years later he became an anti-authoritarian voice for a generation. He really became an enemy of religion around the time Pat Robertson was running for president in 1986. At one point, he even tried to establish a church of his own – tongue firmly in cheek of course as he was opposed to their tax exempt status. His church was to be called CASH, Church of Armerican Secular Humanism, with one tenent stating
        …That man is the center of the universe and all existence, and
        will act and be treated accordingly, unless evidence to the
        contrary be discovered through verifiable scientific inquiry.

        Whether you like Zappa’s music or not (I know many doesn’t like it), I think he summarised the concerns of many atheists with this:

        “Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I’m concerned — I support your right to
        enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people
        who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture or necrodestination.”

        1. The “Dumb All Over/Heavenly Bank Account/Meek shall inherit nothing triad is a great commentary on Big Religion. Zappa
          also took Eastern mystical carpetbaggers to task with “Cosmic Debris”, and on his final tour in 1988 he premiered “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk” and re-purposed a number of his older songs (“What Kind of Girl”, “Lonesome Cowboy Burt”, “More Trouble Every Day”, “Penguin in Bondage”) to make fun of Jimmy Swaggart and other TV preachers. Those
          songs can be heard on “Broadway The Hard Way” and “The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life”. He also took a bunch of Beatles songs and gave them the Swaggart treatment,
          but those are only available on bootlegs since Michael Jackson’s estate owns the rights to them and Uncle Frank gave ol’ Michael a pretty hard time on “Why Don’t You Like Me”, so I don’t think MJ’s estate will be letting the Zappa Family Trust use those versions any time soon.

          1. Glad I snatched up all those albums… also “Make a Jazz Noise Here”… the second they became available.

            Yes I own the entire set of FZ albums… all the Rhinos. And much of the vinyl from way back when.

            He suffered from some weird conspiracy shit (the stuff about HIV being a CIA plot in Thing-Fish was not completely satire), but he was by-and-large a golden force in the industry. Gave “birth” to zillions of the best (I’m listening to Vinnie Colaiuta’s first solo album at the moment).

            Trying to think of another anti-religion tune he authored… ah yes…

            Father Vivian O’Blivion, resplendent in his frock,
            was whipping up the batter for the pancakes for his flock.
            He was looking rather bleary, he forgot to watch the clock because
            the night before behind the door a leprechaun had stroked his smock.
            Which set him off in such a frenzy, he sang
            “Lock around the Crock!”
            And he topped it off with a woo-woo-woo…
            …as he stumbled on his cock,
            he delighted as it stiffened, and ripped right through his sock!
            “Poor St. Alphonso would be proud of me” (he shouted down the block). etc…

          2. Don’t abuse the ma-ja-reen, now!

            Have you been keeping up with the stuff that his family has released since his death? He’s had more recordings released since his death than many artists release in their lifetime. Some of it’s “filler”, but there’s also a lot of great music!

  14. Can’t have a discussion about atheist music without this one:

    youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs

    1. Or it’s mocking the mocking of atheism:

      “In his authorized biography, close friend Morris Walker suggests that Martin could “be described most accurately as an agnostic […] he rarely went to church and was never involved in organized religion of his own volition”.[16]”

      [Wikipedia]

      Who knows? It is fun and anti-theist anyway.

    2. I don’t think the song mocks atheism, although the way it is written it may seem that way to the religious minded. According to the song all atheists have are rock and roll, the blues, and Sundays free. Not so bad.

  18. 1971:

    People are stirred
    Moved by the Word
    Kneel at the shrine
    Deceived by the wine

    How was the earth conceived?
    Infinite Space
    Is there such a place?
    You must believe in the human race

    Can you believe
    God makes you breathe?
    Why did he lose
    Six million Jews?

    Touched by the wings
    This angel brings
    Sad winter storm
    Grey autumn dawn

    Who looks on life itself?
    Who lights your way?
    Only you can say
    How can you just obey?

    Don’t need the word
    Now that you’ve heard
    Don’t be afraid
    Man is man-made

    And when the hour comes
    Don’t turn away
    Face the light of day
    And do it your way

    It’s the only way

    ELP, Tarkus.

  19. I also don’t think Martin’s song is necessarily a pro atheist song; I think it’s just a song about atheists. Actually, I think it’s kind of bland and doesn’t really do anything for me, but what do I know?

    Here’s another not-really-an-atheist song, but it’s a pretty funny song about gawd and how he’ll f*ck you up! (I’m not sure how to avoid embedding YouTube videos, so I’m just going to break the links…)

    http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=oWqMaTYRcCA

        1. You can hardly go wrong with Bach, and since I couldn’t understand a word he was singing, it might as well have been an atheist song, but it is from a Christmas oratorio, so I have to admit that I’m curious as to why you call it an atheist song.

          2. Give me more answers like that and I’ll keep askin’! My mind didn’t understand your answer*, but my ears are very happy. Thanks!

            *Unless it’s something along the lines of Frank Zappa’s memorable quote: “Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.”

    2. Perhaps, Rik and Diana, Ben’s point is that it makes no sense to say there is xian or atheist music. We can all enjoy good music regardless of the subject matter. Much of the music I love comes with religious texts. Take a look at my avatar.

      The greatness in Bach’s music has nothing to do with religion.

      1. Well, I can sure agree with that! I guess that’s what I was saying below (#22). I think I was getting a little hung up on the “official” intention of the music.

        Ben, regarding the Phillip Glass piece–his music usually makes me restless, but I came across some of it as soundtrack music in “The Truman Show” and some Woody Allen movie recently, and thought it worked really well in those contexts. The Akhnaten piece is, as you say, not bad, but it feels like a backing track or a demo somehow. Thanks for the links–this entire thread has made for one helluva juke box!

      2. In an odd way the greatness of Bach’s music actually helped me leave religion. The extremely narrow sect of my childhood held that Bach was bound for Hell as a result of his errors in belief (as a rule of thumb, everyone was bound for Hell). I just couldn’t listen to a Bach piece and want to side with a God who would shrug and say, “Nice tunes, Bach, but no dice, off to Hell with you.” So for me Bach provided a bit of early cognitive dissonance that helped me overcome my brainwashing.

      3. I can buy that but anything that mentions Jesus gives me the wiggins. I don’t know why. It just does.

        1. It was precisely because of the privileged position that Jesus has in American society that I included gods from as many other cultures as I could in my sampling of great atheist songs.

          In addition to everything that musical beef wrote and wrote so well, the other point I’d make is that a song about Harry Potter or Darth Vader or Beowulf or any other figure from fantasy would clearly be as godless as one about the color of one’s true love’s hair or the arrival of summer or shooting a man just to watch him die — atheist songs, though obviously not songs about atheism.

          So the only way that you could think that songs about or even praising certain other figures from fantasy are theistic songs is if you think that those figures actually are gods.

          That the songwriters thought so is irrelevant.

          Let me close with a truly great atheist song, from the greatest Mass of the 20th century, written by a Jewish atheist bisexual. (The Mass also happens to be a pretty impressive act of blasphemy, complete with desecration of the Host.)

          Cheers,

          b&

          1. I think the Jesus wiggins thing for me is having it shoved down my throat as the only atheist kid (in the closet) in a public elementary school where we had to sing “Jesus Loves Me”. Ugh. The same stuff went down with the kids of our close friends who are Jewish. I bet they have a Jesus wiggins thing too. 🙂

  21. Wow, twenty comments in a nobody mentioned Rush? Where are the Canadians!? Rush has whole albums about atheism.

    1. I was just about to say that (And Lennon’s Imagine, which someone else mentioned also).

      Rush’s Freewill [1] rang around in my head at a time when I was just deciding religion was bunk. It’s useful to have an anti-religion song or two in your mind to compete with all the Jesus songs at certain points on the way out of faith. The Weapon [2], which is not one of their better songs IMO, is another one with catchy and overtly anti-religion lyrics. The chorus line “They shout about love but when push comes to shove they live for things they are afraid of.” really rang true to me. There are lots more. It’s a common theme for them.

      youtube .com /
      [1] watch?v=bpOyQhgM1FU
      [2] watch?v=vNe2vTm7va4

      1. Oh, and this Rush music video is great:

        youtube.com / watch?v=aeUWJbs9Q5E

        Shows the ever branching tree of religion (a characteristic of religion is bifurcation… it never converges) and at the end shows “Chuck D.” holding an axe. Great image.

      2. Newest Rush album (Clockwork Angels) is plenty anti-faith as well, and spectacular live. Almost a return to the glory days (i.e. everything from “Fly By Night” to “Signals”).

  22. People always think it’s strange that as an atheist, “Denomination Blues Pt. 1” by gospel performer Washington Phillips is one of my favorite songs. His voice on this recording gives me chills:

    1. Man, there’s NOTHING wrong with being an atheist and being into Gospel music! I’d never heard the song you posted, but it’s wonderful! Lyrical content aside, a lot of Gospel music is just plain beautiful! I’m particularly fond of some of the female Gospel singers of the post-war era. Check out Dorothy Love-Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes when you get a chance!

    2. When he told me I had to have jebus the second time I had to turn him off, afeared that he was likely to go at it all the way through.

  23. Not atheist, but at least evolutionist:

    New York Dolls: Dance Like a Monkey-

    You’re designed so intelligent
    Ain’t no way that was an accident
    C’mon shake your monkey hips
    My pretty little creationist, oh, yeah
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XEiV-l97o

    Chris Smithers: Origin of Species-

    “Well, Charlie Darwin looked so far
    Into the way things are.
    He caught a glimpse of God’s
    unfolding plan.

    God said: “I’ll make some DNA”
    They can use it any way they want
    From paramecium
    Right up to man.”

    “They’ll have sex
    And mix up sections of their code
    They’ll have mutations…
    The whole thing works like clockwork over time.”

    “I’ll just sit back in the shade
    While everyone gets laid.
    That’s what I call
    Intelligent design.”

    1. Well, if we’re doing evolution songs too, I have to give a shout out to MC Hawking (mchawking . com): F*ck the Creationists (/watch?v=S_k-MZcjCFI), and also in Entropy (/watch?v=5bueZoYhUlg).

      1. Don’t forget Dan Barker’s It’s only natural (link deliberately broken because I don’t know how to prevent embedding either): www. youtube.com/watch?v=jsA9d5dsmtM

  26. I think Motorhead has a better atheist song, “God Was Never On Your Side.”

    http://youtu.be/2185c_VsjlI

    If the stars, fall down on me,
    And the sun, refused to shine,
    Then may the shackles be undone,
    AND all the old words cease to rhyme
    If the sky, turned into stone,
    It would matter not at all,
    For there is no heaven, in the sky,
    Hell does not wait, for our downfall!

    Let the voice of reason shine,
    Let the PIOUS vanish for all time,
    God’s face HIDDEN, ALL unseen,
    You can’t ask him what it all means,
    He was never on your side,
    God was never on your side,
    Let right or wrong, ALONE decide
    God was never on your side.

    See ten thousand ministries
    See the holy rightous dogs,
    They claim to heal, but all they do is steal,
    ABUSE YOUR faith, cheat, and ROB,
    If God is wise, why is he still,
    When these false profits, call him friend,
    Why is he silent, is he blind!?
    Are we abandoned in the end?

    Let the sword of reason shine,
    Let us be free of prayer and shrine
    God’s face is hidden, turned away,
    He never has a word to say,
    He was never on your side,
    God was never on your side,
    God was never on your side!
    No, No, No.

    (Guitar solo)

    He was never on your side,
    God was never on your side,
    Never!
    Never!
    Never!
    Never!
    Never on your side!
    Never on your side!
    God was never on your side,
    Never on your side

  27. Reader Ant asked me to post this on his behalf, as he’s having trouble signing on:

    Can I suggest these additions for the atheist song thread?

    Shelley Segal, “Saved”, from An Atheist Album (2011)

    Say that i need to be saved
    Say with me the devils got his way
    I want to know how when you are praying
    And when you are dooms-daying
    How you think you know that someone is listening to what you are saying

    So you think that you
    Can tell us how to live our lives
    Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
    You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
    I wonder, I wonder
    When we’ll be rid of your lies

    Say I need to hear the truth
    A sales-pitch of eternal life and eternal youth
    All these blessings you are bestowing
    Upon the one you say is all-knowing
    Are they really deserved if ‘He’ is sending me where you say I am going?

    So you think that you
    Can tell us how to live our lives
    Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
    You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
    I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder

    What will it take for you
    To start opening your eyes
    To start questioning the bullshit everyone around you buys
    You think it’s any of your business what goes on between my thighs?
    I wonder, I wonder,
    When we’ll be rid of your lies

    Words Such As Burn, “Fallacy 1 : Argument from Ignorance”, from Flow (EP; 2012)

    Oh my, what a beautiful sky
    Witnessed with a marvelously complex eye
    Comprehended by an enigmatic mind
    To those who can’t conceive that these wonders were not designed, well…

    Don’t limit yourself
    By your own imagination.
    You don’t have to sink
    Into a sea of divine creation.

    Oh hey, what did Ockham say?
    The old boy had it bad for Ms. Parsimony
    He took her home, but she would not behave
    She gave him the knife; it was a very close shave

    Don’t limit yourself
    By your own imagination
    You don’t have to know
    Before you have the information

  28. Reader Ant asked me to post this on his behalf, since he’s having trouble posting:

    Can I suggest these additions for the atheist song thread?

    Shelley Segal, “Saved”, from An Atheist Album (2011)

    Say that i need to be saved
    Say with me the devils got his way
    I want to know how when you are praying
    And when you are dooms-daying
    How you think you know that someone is listening to what you are saying

    So you think that you
    Can tell us how to live our lives
    Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
    You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
    I wonder, I wonder
    When we’ll be rid of your lies

    Say I need to hear the truth
    A sales-pitch of eternal life and eternal youth
    All these blessings you are bestowing
    Upon the one you say is all-knowing
    Are they really deserved if ‘He’ is sending me where you say I am going?

    So you think that you
    Can tell us how to live our lives
    Never questioning the source from which your moral code derives
    You think that suffering is part of some great plan that’s been devised
    I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder

    What will it take for you
    To start opening your eyes
    To start questioning the bullshit everyone around you buys
    You think it’s any of your business what goes on between my thighs?
    I wonder, I wonder,
    When we’ll be rid of your lies

    Words Such As Burn, “Fallacy 1 : Argument from Ignorance”, from Flow (EP; 2012)

    Oh my, what a beautiful sky
    Witnessed with a marvelously complex eye
    Comprehended by an enigmatic mind
    To those who can’t conceive that these wonders were not designed, well…

    Don’t limit yourself
    By your own imagination.
    You don’t have to sink
    Into a sea of divine creation.

    Oh hey, what did Ockham say?
    The old boy had it bad for Ms. Parsimony
    He took her home, but she would not behave
    She gave him the knife; it was a very close shave

    Don’t limit yourself
    By your own imagination
    You don’t have to know
    Before you have the information

  29. One more (unexpected) addition that I just heard this morning. Not an atheist song, but an atheistic lyric, I think. From the song Miami, by Counting Crows:

    It just gets hard to believe
    That god sends his angel
    To watch over me
    ’cause my angel
    She don’t receive my calls
    She says I’m too dumb to fuck
    Too dumb to fight
    Too dumb to save
    Well maybe I don’t need no angel, at all…

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