Some of these are a stretch, but they're better than the ones that didn't make the list. Usually I can come up with 20 choices which I can whittle down to ten good ones, but I struggled to come up with 14. I guess I don’t have a very irreligious mp3 collection (which currently stands at about 20,000).
In actual fact, I think there just aren’t many songs which criticize religion. I’m sure there’s some others I didn’t cover, but either I don’t have that song, forgot it, or it sucks (usually all three).
10. Franz Ferdinand – Evil and a Heathen
9. Tori Amos – God
8. Marilyn Manson – Fight Song
7. Nirvana – Ain’t It a Shame
6. Alanis Morisette – Forgiven
5. The Dandy Warhols – I Am a Scientist
4. A Perfect Circle – Judith
3. Nine Inch Nails – Heresy
2. John Lennon – Imagine
1. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
In actual fact, I think there just aren’t many songs which criticize religion. I’m sure there’s some others I didn’t cover, but either I don’t have that song, forgot it, or it sucks (usually all three).
10. Franz Ferdinand – Evil and a Heathen
9. Tori Amos – God
8. Marilyn Manson – Fight Song
7. Nirvana – Ain’t It a Shame
6. Alanis Morisette – Forgiven
5. The Dandy Warhols – I Am a Scientist
4. A Perfect Circle – Judith
3. Nine Inch Nails – Heresy
2. John Lennon – Imagine
1. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Evil and a Heathen isn't anti-religious, firstly, one line is:
ReplyDeleteI like how you pretend
That the end will be the end
Emphasis on the word 'pretend'. If anything its against anti-religious zealots in my opinion.
Also, Imagine by John Lennon isn't really anti-religion is more anti-organised religion, Lennon was a very spiritual person much annoyed by organised religion as the Maharishi felt up his friend who was a girl.
GOD
DeleteBy John Lennon
fuck religion
By Propagandhi <<>>
Tomorrow Wendy
By Concrete Blonde
"I told the priest, don't count on any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming."
Religion and spirituality are 2 different things. Religion is religion whether organized or not. Religion has nothing to do with spirituality and all to do with following pointless rules.
ReplyDeleteBilly Joel's Only the Good Die Young always makes it to the top of my list, partially because my mother told me that when she was a teenager, she used to get together with her friends and play it as loud as she possibly could from the car stereo to spite her strict Catholic mother.
ReplyDeleteImagine was written more about him and Paul fighting about the Beatles.
DeleteJohn Lennon had a song which he said he didn't believe in Jesus
but this was more of an ode to growing up and not trying to obtain things like, sex, fun, material, all things he lost after the Beatles..
I can't say Lennon disliked Christianity.
The song about the warm gun is pretty much something else...maybe it is about how priests are very sexual towards women.
What about "Dear God," by XTC. Super song in every way...
ReplyDeleteMetallica - Leper Messiah
ReplyDeleteSuicidal Tendencies - Bring Me Your Money
You should have a listen to 'Four Winds' by Bright Eyes: 'The Bible's blind, the Koran's deaf, the Torah's mute. If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth ...'
ReplyDeleteI saw you followed my blog, any particular reason? Haha. I like yours; totally on board the atheism train.
Cheers
What, no Motorhead ?
ReplyDeleteHow Is it, that there are no Bad Religion songs on this list?
ReplyDeleteHow about "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam? "I can kill 'cause in God I trust"; "I'm a thief, I'm a liar, here's my church, I sing in the choir."
ReplyDeleteAlso, "Rise Up! Rise Up!" and "Big Bang" by Cursive are all about challenging religion ("Rise up! Rise up! There's no one to worship, but plenty of life to lose"; "There was this big bang once. Why are we raptured on our knees?"). Great songs, too.
I'm an atheist but, personally, I love religious songs. My favourite is "Killing for Jesus" by the Circle Jerks.
ReplyDeleteI've got a list of those.
ReplyDeleteVirgin Steele - Invictus (The entire album) (although perhaps more deicidal than anti-religious, on second thought, Perseus holding Medusa's head on the album cover definitely sets the tone.)
ReplyDeleteHaillie Sellasse, Up Your Ass by Propaghandi also known as Fuck Religion.
ReplyDelete"Take a look at your promised land.
Your deed is that gun in your hand.
Mt. Zion's a minefield. The West Bank. The Gaza Strip.
Soon to be parking lots for American tourists and fascist cops.
Fuck zionism. Fuck militarism. Fuck americanism.
Fuck nationalism. Fuck religion."
A song you should consider for this list is Question Marks by Shad. He is a Toronto based Hip Hop artist and in my opinion it is the best song ever released questioning religion. His critticism is balanced and unbias and it makes for an amazing song
ReplyDeleteShad concludes that there is a God by the end of the song. It's lyrically pretty interesting but not anti-religious at all
DeleteThe song "No God" by Darkest Hour would top my list...
ReplyDelete"There's no salvation
In a world where you worship proven fiction
And no redemption for a life of servitude
You bow and you heed
Unhallowed command
Your only care is the money we gain
It's the same place
A hollow escape
A palace of concrete and glass
Keep waiting, keep waiting
For no god
To erase you
No god
To make you fall to your knees
There's blood on these pages
And the war inside your head
Is with yourself
Through the ages, through every form of "Hell"
It's the same face
A hollow escape
A palace of concrete and glass
Keep waiting, keep waiting
For no god
To consume you
No god
To be your burden
No god
To use you
No god
There is only illusion
The usurper of life
It'll bleed every last drop
And it'll suck all the breath out of you
And leave you forsaken
There's no god
To release you
There's no god
To make you fall down to your knees
There's no god
To deceive you
There's no god
To be your burden
There's no god
There's no god
There's no god
There is only illusion"
Dear god by XTC came out in the 80's and for anti eastern religion "All the blowing themsves up mother fuckers" by julian cope
ReplyDeleteRush: "Faithless," "The Way the Wind Blows," "Brought Up To Believe," and many more.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I just found this blog, and I'm definitely subscribing.
WTF! Where is Gary Numans 'The Angel Wars'? That is seriously, the most antireligious song ever written! Infact the whole 'Exile' album from 1997, is all based around the lie of religion and its disease! Highly recommend a listen!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Morte Et Dabo- Asking Alexandria? Judith, a perfect circle? Two good songs right there! D:
ReplyDeleteOne of the best anti-religious songs has to be For The Greater Good Of God by Iron Maiden. Amazing musically and the lyrics are pure genius..!
ReplyDelete>Every punk song ever recorded.
ReplyDeleteWhat about "God Save the Queen"?
DeleteAs someone who was a teen during the 80s, I'm deeply offended that you missed Blasphemous Rumours by Depeche Mode. For best results, make sure to wear all black with matching black eyeliner.
ReplyDeleteGOD
ReplyDeleteBy John Lennon
fuck religion
By Propagandhi <<>>
Tomorrow Wendy
By Concrete Blonde
"I told the priest, don't count on any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming."
Almost anything from Blackmetal. only, the genre tends to be more anti-christian than anything else. Then again, they are the most annoying religious peeps
ReplyDeleteJane's Addiction - Had A Dad.
ReplyDelete"if you see my dad, tell him my brothers have all gone mad, they're beating on each other..... I walked around, even tried to call, had this funny feeling like he's not there at all."
Theres a song by the Australian rapper Vents called 'Wheres God Now' thats very good.
ReplyDeleteYou have all missed the best song...Dumb All Over by Frank Zappa. Sums it up for me.....
ReplyDeleteYou cant run a country by a book of religion
Not by heap or a lump or a smidgen
Of foolish rules and ancient date
Designed to make you all feel great
Whilst you murder, torture and mutilate
Those unbelievers from a neighbouring state.
Fucking right you are, I'm listening to You are what you is right now, I love it.
DeleteFucking right you are, I'm listening to You are what you is right now, I love it.
DeleteWar Prayer on In Gorbachev We Trust, The Shamen
DeleteBest God In Show - NOFX
ReplyDeleteI have no consideration
Zero mutual respect
For billions who suffer from rational thought neglect
I don't wanna waste a sentence
I don't want a conversation
That's gonna end in disdain disbelief and aggravation
And I find it's getting harder to hang out
With grown adults who actually believe
In Santa Clause and Noah's Ark, and Their god is the best
My distaste has turned into detest
Who would read a 2000-year-old medical journal?
Techniques for blood-letting
Advice on trichinosis
Would you navigate the globe
With a map of a flat Earth?
Without DNA testing would you believe virgin birth?
And I find it's getting painful to put up
With grown adults who actually believe
In unicorns and creation and god always takes their side
That's when my innocent jabbing turns snide
Thank god for the Grammy
Thank god for the touchdown
Thank god for blowing up the enemy's sacred ground
So how am I supposed to take anything you say seriously
When you swap free will for faith, hope and pre-destiny?
And it's getting agonizing to hang out
With grown adults who actually believe
Mythology and history trump physics and science
My aversion has turned to abhorrence
You may hate the idea of God or hate God himself for whatever reason however please bear in mind that He will never stop loving you.
ReplyDeleteFuck off please
DeleteSeriously.
DeleteHozier - Take me to church
ReplyDeleteTake Me to Church is so annoying.
DeleteI'm sorry us Christians and Catholics destroyed Judaism
ReplyDeleteand were responsible for the holocaust.
You Jews hate us Christians and Catholics because Adolf
Hitler used us to persecute you and he almost destroyed your race which I dont blame him.
First of Franz Ferdinand is A kike
Alanis morrissette is another Jew Dyke who starred in a Kevin Smith movie, who was a cocksucker to Miramax a Jew run company.
You jews are going to pay, now that Trump is in office you kikes will see how much America, The Middle East
and Isis is going to destroy your faithless, useless
Judaism once and for all...
Kurt Cobain had nothing to do with Christianity,
ReplyDeleteAlanis morrisette is a kike,
who starred in a kike movie made by Miramax who is a kike.
John Lennon imagined a world where him and Ono could have sex all day and write off Religion.
Trent Reznor was an idiot and no one even listens to him anymore.
The Jews hate Christianity because Jesus made them poor in Israel.
Jesus came and took away from the pharisees who were competing with each other over material things.
The Jews are now heading towards a second holocaust with Valerie Cortez, Isis, Trump,
and you have the gall to put down Christianity over
Aint it a shame which wasn't even a Nirvana song.
Ain't it a shame was a Led Belly song based on
slavery not religion.
How can you quote kikes?