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Textbook
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 18:19 | |
I mentioned them in the first post. I believe Anderson is a spiritual person but is deeply suspicious of any attempt to organise and control spirituality. From Aqualung to Roots To Branches, there is a small but noticable vein of anti-religion in Tull.
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The Truth
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 18:19 | |
OH FATHER HIGH IN HEAVEN
LOOK DOWN UPON YOUR SON! |
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sean
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 02 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1155 |
Posted: March 01 2012 at 18:58 | |
How about Peter Hammill songs such as the lie, and Faint-Heart and the Sermon? Also, there are certain lines in VdGG's "childlike faith" that make me think they're anti-religious, such as "though i see no god to save us, yet we survive".
I know the amputechture album by The Mars Volta album is concerned with religion, and I think they have a rather anti-religious stance, but making sense of their lyrics can be somewhat difficult. |
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sean
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:19 | |
Also, don't we have plenty of black metal prog bands on this site? There should be plenty of anti-religious lyrics there!
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Earendil
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 19:54 | |
Many of these suggestions are against institutionalized or hypocritical religion, but it takes something else to effectively discredit religion. Many anti-religious bands (though probably less within prog) do nothing more than make passion-fueled generalizations because of a few ignorant people.
But I think it's natural for many prog bands (especially in more extreme or experimental prog) to criticize Christianity because of the simple minded, regressive attitudes many Christians maintain. I certainly often find myself closer to God listening to Tool or Unexpect than from any type of mainstream Christian "spiritual" (more accurately described as "self-pitying" or "self-gratifying") activity. I believe that it's possible for someone to experience God more deeply in progressive areas of thought than in self-cripling, religious ones. A lot of different music can make me emotional, but it's not too often that I really cry from it. The title track on 10,000 Days by Tool is a sort of admission (if my understanding is correct) from Maynard that his mother's Christian faith was so genuine and true that she surely is finding heaven. Despite Maynard's outspoken opposition to Christianity, he writes this: Oh, what are they going to do when the lights go down Without you to guide them all to Zion? What are they going to do when the rivers overrun Other than tremble incessantly? High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground. You were the light and the way they'll only read about. I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out. Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough; You're going home. And now, this next part is the section that has made me weep on multiple occasions... You're the only one who can hold your head up high, Shake your fists at the gates saying: "I've come home now! Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, and the Father. Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended. It's time now! My time now! Give me my, give me my wings!" You are the light and way that they will only read about. To me (whether he meant it or not), this is the admission of an outsider to the personal relationship with God offered through Christ. I'm not sure how relevant any of this is to a thread about anti-religious prog (or where it's even going), but there you go. Edited by Eärendil - March 22 2012 at 18:44 |
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Textbook
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 21:56 | |
Earendil: Great post. Wings For Marie also moves me deeply, despite being an atheist. The "might've told a lie/ never took a life" part also brings a lump to my throat.
I don't think the song is any sort of admission on Maynard's part that he believes in Christ/god. It's more that though he is a confirmed atheist, his tribute to his mother who was a devout Christian is to write and perform a song that is wholly from her point of view and embraces her beliefs.
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Harry Hood
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Posted: March 01 2012 at 21:59 | |
"Out In The Darkness" by Martin Orford is one of my favorite examples of this.
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CCVP
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitória, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
Posted: March 01 2012 at 22:20 | |
Anti-religiousness =/= anti-batsh*t insane religions. |
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Rottenhat
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 13:10 | |
Well, 5UU's made a go at Babylonian mythology with Marduk and Tiamat, on the first album. I think the band Thinking Plague is putting out a atheistic message, the latest album Decline and Fail being a good example.
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-William S. Burroughs |
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dennismoore
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 13:33 | |
I must concur with my esteemed colleague, Epignosis. Rush is certainly not anti-religion. If anything Rush is a faithful ever present warning about deeply idiotic people who put religous zealots in power and then commit atrocities. In my great country, the USA, right wing chosen people of God, pious Christians, burned people alive for many various trivial and quite evil reasons. Nice "faith based" "family values" there. Religious people of faith are burying young girls up to their neck, today, in the middle east and then smashing boulders into their skulls until they die. These murderers truly believe they are men of God. Just saying you have faith or are God-like really means nothing outside of one's own dellusions.
The truth is the truth people. Just because some person or group claims they have faith and are with God, does not
make them righteous nor good and historically shows, most times it makes them in fact very evil & horrific. But lets not let reality get in the way here.
Considering Rush anti-religion is ignorance at it worst.
Dude, your thread is deeply flawed if you think to include Rush as anti-religion. And yes, Epignosis was absolutely right as he pointed out that Genesis was satirizing the greedy fools that sell religion to week minded people. Genesis was not anti-religion.
"Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque Silent and stern in the sweltering night The mob moves like demons possessed Quiet in conscience, calm in their right Confident their ways are best The righteous rise With burning eyes Of hatred and ill-will Madmen fed on fear and lies To beat and burn and kill" I say: Thank God for RUSH.
Oh yeah, and call Ian Anderson a heretic too, for what he wrote about the bloody Church of England, in Aqualung...
But first feel free to:
- Get your head out of your ass
- Get a clue as to what Ian was really sayin
- Put down your little propaganda books and read some history and lean about all the atrocities commited by The Church of England
Thank you for your time.
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"Yeah, people are unhappy about that - but you know what, it's still Yes." - Chris Squire
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dennismoore
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 14:26 | |
Dude, I am totally agreeing with you two times in this thread. Is that normal???
Seriously, out of all the music I listen too I believe Rush (Neil's lyrics) to have the most intellectual honesty in their songs.
I LOVE YES, the most of all, but.... "shiny flying purple wolfhound???? Are you kidding???
Also: any Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian can write the cliched arrongant condescending blather that Neal Morse has been writing lately. For example, imagine the following lyric with a nice prog 5/4 beat:
"Oh, I was a secular nothing, I was worthless, I was lost, but now I am found! Now I am everything, Now I am God-Like, now I am saved. Too bad for all you secular losers, you are nothing like me, me that is so blessed and perfect. I am going to Heaven. I am going to Heaven. La La La." oh and don't forget to use the world "prodigal" in every other song you write, that is real original.
I will stick with RUSH lyrics to keep me humble, thank you.
Oh, if anyboy thinks "I" am anti-religion, sorry...
I am Roman Catholic (some think that is worse than anti-religion, I know, my evangelical friends have told me so.). But... I do not think I am perfect, chosen or saved and you being a possible Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or whatever are an unsaved, pathetic, lost wretch,unlike what my self-rightous brethern seem to believe.
Yipes, this thread really brought out the beast in me. Perhaps cause the wife & I just saw Benicio Del Toro in The Werewolf, last night???
Waay back....some dude, called RUSH anti-religion, so that got me going. Knowing the "religion" crowd, if RUSH is anti-religion I think I will chose RUSH.
I will choose Free Will.
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"Yeah, people are unhappy about that - but you know what, it's still Yes." - Chris Squire
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 15:30 | |
"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them." I don't have all the answers, but the best I can explain the image of God is: we were created specially, given immortal souls, and made to reflect God's attributes. This doesn't mean that we are omnipotent or omnipresent, but that, because our Creator is rational, emotional, and relational, we are rational, emotional, and relational creatures (to give a few examples). Because we are made in the image of our Creator, we subcreate under Him, using His gifts. We do this in our music, stories, art, etc. God, who is in dominion over all things, also made us in His image by giving us dominion over the earth. When man fell, he lost that image, but God is now restoring it in us, and will complete it on the last day. Note: I use the word "man" to mean all of mankind, because that's how it's used in Scripture when discussing this. I do not mean to exclude women from the image of God.
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Harry Hood
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 17:32 | |
Today I learned about the Dan Swano sideproject known as Infestdead. Brutally technical death metal paying tribute to bands like Deicide and taking anti-christian sentiment as far as it can go to it's natural conclusion. Featuring classic song titles such as "JesuSatan", "Christian Genocide", "Save Me From The Hands Of Christ", and "Anti-Christian Song #37". Their logo is an upside down cross inside a pentagram.
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Garden of Dreams
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 18:33 | |
That is true. Rush are not anti-religious. They do not criticize any actual faith in religions but rather hypocrisy and religious establishments. However, based on the lyrics in Armor and Sword and Faithless, I would say that they are atheist, or at least Neil Peart is atheist. Come to think of it, I don't think I have encountered any prog songs that bash the actual faith of a specific religion .
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Just give it all an hour by the concrete lake.
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Epignosis
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Posted: March 02 2012 at 18:33 | |
I may respond to this in The Christian Thread, so as not to derail this one. |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 03 2012 at 10:44 | |
I'm still pondering the whole if we were created by a creator thing then who created the creator thing. In the end it doesn't matter. What does is how you treat your fellow people and other living things.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 03 2012 at 11:01 | |
Very perceptive post. Let's face it, the Bible, irrespective of your spiritual orientation, is still one of the best roadmaps to traverse the vagaries of the human psyche that has ever been devised.. |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 03 2012 at 11:10 | |
Not entirely sure what you are getting at but it has its good things to say, still it is a cobbled together and translated text often contradictory. People who profess to be christian pick and choose what parts they want to hold true. |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: March 03 2012 at 11:25 | |
^ Yeah OK point taken Slarti. All I meant was that everything we respond to and hunger for re order and symmetry is catered for: dark/light - good/evil - mercy/cruelty - crime/punishment - grace/perdition - individual/society - mores/licentiousness etc It's an A to Z of human frailty and the commensurate thirst for a codified ethics (no-matter how flawed)
BTW I'm an atheist but re the interpretation by extreme wackos - you don't blame the composer when the pianist hits a bum note innit? |
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Epignosis
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Posted: March 03 2012 at 11:27 | |
Some do. I don't. I just know what parts don't apply to me (for example, I'm not an Israelite, so therefore I am not a part of God's explicit covenant with Israel). Context is paramount. |
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