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Posted: February 28 2012 at 03:27
Robert Wyatt has written songs that express the atheist point of view; Matching Mole's God Song is pretty much self explanatory, while on more recent albums Just a Bit is dedicated to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and there are others but I can't remember the titles at the moment.
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 03:59
Freewill by Rush, enough said. Someone brought up Tool, tons of shots at religion from Keenan in all of his projects. Idk if Nine Inch Nails is prog related or crossover but Trent Reznor always had something to say about religion. With songs like Heresy and the Ruiner, the Downward Spiral might be one of the most anti religious anti God albums ever made. More power to it. Floyd, although that's quite obvious, Sheep, very very on topic here.
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 06:01
Most of the Anti religion in general, are not against faith in it self, but against religion as an institution.Along the lines of, "She's not the kind You have to wind up......."
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
Epig: There is an anti-religion theme in Rush. Sorry if you don't like that, but there is.
Hey, wait a minute...what's this thing atheists tend to demand Christians provide again? Let's see...ah yes. Evidence. Just saying so doesn't make it true.
Show Don't Tell my friend.
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you think it's risible that people with a viewpoint not reflected in a
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 06:29
Snow Dog wrote:
^Well yes..anti religion is against religion. Kind of obvious
Anti religion or Criticism of religion, can be about many diffrent things. from the idear that you have to be mad to belive the world was created in 7 days, to the awful acts against children from members of the church.
What i was trying to say was, that most anti religious prog, i can think of, target the church, not so often the idear of a God or a afterlife.
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 06:39
Rush are not 'anti religion' They can't be, because of their 'libertarian' view of the world. They presumably support anyones right to freely worship.
They are merely exercising their right to not do so themselves, and to cast a crticial eye, via their music, over the whole concept of blind faith. To suggest they are 'anti' religion, almost implies they want to see it stamped out, which I like to think they don't.
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 06:45
Evolver wrote:
Don't forget "Dumb All Over".
Oh yeah: "You cant run a country By a book of religion Not by a heap Or a lump or a smidgeon Of foolish rules Of ancient date Designed to make You all feel great While you fold, spindle And mutilate Those unbelievers From a neighboring state" But it was more about the basic stupidity of people religious or otherwise.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 07:58
Blacksword wrote:
Rush are not 'anti religion' They can't be, because of their 'libertarian' view of the world. They presumably support anyones right to freely worship.
They are merely exercising their right to not do so themselves, and to cast a crticial eye, via their music, over the whole concept of blind faith. To suggest they are 'anti' religion, almost implies they want to see it stamped out, which I like to think they don't.
Correct. Being an atheist does not necessarily make one anti-religion. It just means that the individual has no religion. It implies no judgement on anyone else.
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 09:52
Does anybody here speak Spanish? Because Spanish folk-metal-progsters of Mägo de Oz are pretty much religion haters, specially when it comes to the Vatican.
Just for you to have an idea of what I'm talking about, here are the lyrics of "La Cantata del Diablo", the epic closing song from their Gaia II album, I don't know if translation from Google is good, see for yourselves if it works :
Admin edit: please do not post song lyrics. Only excerpts are allowed.
Lima96 edit: Okey, so I will post a few relevant excerpts. Ah, and the song really ends on the 24th minute, I don't know why the video lasts 36.:
En nombre de la única religión
dictamos sentencia y te condenamos
a la piadosa purificación
del fuego y del dolor,
en manos de Dios tu debes poner
tu alma, tu hacienda y todos tus pecados,
acepta a Cristo y encomiendate
pues pronto darás cuentas a él.
[...]
Padre nuestro, de todos nosotros,
de los pobres, de los sin techo,
de los marginados y de los desprotegidos,
de los desheredados y de los dueños de la miseria,
de los que te siguen y de los que en tí...
Ya no creemos.
[...]
¿Cuál es tu reino?,
¿El vaticano?,
¿La banca?,
¿La alta política?
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 13:22
Fortunately that Zappa song has lots of lyrics and I was OK just quoting one stanza. Of course linking to the original source is permitted. Yeah I was a naughty boy once and got busted for quoting whole songs and just taking out one or two stanzas.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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