Atheists Don’t Have No Songs

by SDG on August 26, 2010

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Every atheist worships himself, or at least his own cleverness.
Not everyone who worships himself is atheist, or the pharaohs would be in a pickle.

>There is no such thing as an atheist hymnal. A hymnal is a book of worship.
Ah, but if we are dealing with people who worship themselves....

Bah. There were solipsists and dualists for millennia before Descartes was born. Cartesian dualism is just anemic Gnosticism, or perhaps just humorless Taoism. And every six-year-old invents solipsism at least once before they even hear Descartes' name. Atheists are a step away from solipsism because they can't even admit, with the pagans, that there are forces greater than their own minds guiding the world around them. It's just a tiny skip from "My mind is the greatest force in existence" to "My mind is the only thing in existence."
I can handle someone who can't acknowledge God in Christ, but it takes a peculiar sort of banal blindness to face Creation with anything less than awe and wonder.

"Catholics dress up for Mass and listen to Gregorian chant."
If only it were true.

Mr. Chicken,
In the 1980's, Mike Batt wrote a theatrical musical based on Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. Enjoyable, though dated.

I couldn't watch the video. I went by the title. I am sick, today, so my brain is on vacation and it left no forwarding address.
The Chicken

There is no such thing as an atheist hymnal. A hymnal is a book of worship.
The Chicken

Dress up for Mass and listen to Gregorian Chant!! It seems that everyone associates this with Catholics except ... Catholics. Sigh.

The Atheists should be singing "Hail Holy Mirror" (since they believe selfishness is required) or "Hail Holy Dice" (as they think everything was created by the Holy Dice of Chance)

"I always thought John Lennon's "Imagine" was the atheist hymn."

Not all atheists are Marxists.

I always thought John Lennon's "Imagine" was the atheist hymn.

I hope lots of Catholics see it and get inspired to dress up for Mass and listen to Gregorian chant.

That was funny! I wonder what the occasion was about.

Funny, Descartes, the father of dualism, is also the father of solipsism. You might want to rethink your alleged connection between solipsism and atheism.

Wasn't Rush's Roll the Bones an atheist anthem of sorts?
But give me a pagan over an atheist any day. True atheism is just a step removed from solipsism.

I like Tom Lehrer's song - the first and only WWIII song: So Long Mom, I'm Off to Drop the Bomb.
There ought to be a book of songs for unusual situations. I think a Leap Year Birthday song would be appropriate and a song for Snark huntng.
The Chicken

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