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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Atheism in pop culture
- In-Reply-To: <C19EDv.27yo@austin.ibm.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:31:33 GMT
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- >FROM: John E. Stump <jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com>
- >
- >In article <1993Jan21.174226.63016@cc.usu.edu> slp9k@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>> Can you think of any examples of explicit atheism expressed in pop
- >>> songs or other pop culture works?
- >>>
- >>> -- Brad Pierce
- >>>
- >
- >There's a great song by the group "The The" called Armegeddon Days or
- >something like that. I'll bring in the lyrics tomorrow.
- >
- >john
- >
- >--
- >John Stump (jstump@netftp.austin.ibm.com)
-
- This was on alt.slack during Xmas. More like atheism by inference, since
- it's mainly just some good oldtime Xian bashing, but I thought I'd die
- reading this thing. I have been assured that it is indeed a real group.
-
- Thanks, xine. Hope you don't mind.
-
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-
- >From: xine@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (the strawberry girl)
- >Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- >Subject: RE: jesus songs
- >Newsgroups: alt.slack
- >Distribution: world
- >Lines: 62
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- > [various jesus songs deleted]
-
- > yeah, but the cream of the crop is:
-
- >Jesus Was Way Cool
- >King Missile _Mystical Shit_ Shimmy Disc
-
- >Jesus was way cool
- >Everybody liked Jesus
- >Everybody wanted to hang out with him
- >Anything he wanted to do, he did
- >He turned water into wine
- >And if he wanted to
- >He could have turned wheat into marijuana
- >Or sugar into cocaine
- >Or vitamin pills into amphetamines
- >
- >He walked on the water
- >And swam on the land
- >He would tell these stories
- >And people would listen
- >He was really cool
- >
- >If you were blind or lame
- >You just went to Jesus
- >And he would put his hands on you
- >And you would be healed
- >That's so cool
- >
- >He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
- >He could've told the future
- >He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
- >He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
- >He could've danced better than Barishnikov
- >Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
- >Jesus was way cool
- >
- >He told people to eat his body and drink his blood
- >That's so cool
- >Jesus was so cool
- >But then some people got jealous of how cool he was
- >So they killed him
- >But then he rose from the dead
- >He rose from the dead, danced around
- >Then went up to heaven
- >I mean, that's so cool
- >Jesus was way cool
- >
- >No wonder there are so many Christians
-
-
- > --xine, really bored and stuck in her room
- > due to the x, where x>22, inches of snow.
- >--
- >xine@wpi.wpi.edu...
- >"cos sometimes, i said sometimes, i hear my voice... and it's been here...
- > silent all these years... years go by, will i still be waiting for somebody
- > else to understand?" --Tori Amos, *Silent All These Years*
-
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-
- -jim
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