Greatest Atheistic Lyrics

[wayward_teen]

"One of Us" by Joan Osborne
What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?

If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see, if seeing meant
That you would have to believe in things like heaven
And in Jesus and the saints, and all the prophets?

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I love this song because it dares to question, but it isn't angry or violent. It says things like they are. The vatican hates this song.

"Judas" by Lady Gaga
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby!
I'm just a Holy Fool, oh baby, it's so cruel
But I'm still in love with Judas, baby!

In the most Biblical sense,
I am beyond repentance
Fame hooker, prostitute wench vomits her mind.
But in the cultural sense,
I just speak in future tense...
Judas, kiss me if offensed,
Or wear an ear condom next time.

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Love the symbolism of Jesus and Judas in this one. We are all Judas.

 

[jarofthoughts]

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A Perfect Circle - Judith - YouTube

You're such an inspiration
For the ways that I will
Never, ever choose to be
Oh so many ways for me to show you
How your savior has abandoned you

****** your God, your Lord, your Christ
He did this, took all you had and
Left you this way, still you pray, never stray, never
Taste of the fruit, never thought to question "Why?"

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side
Praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed

He did it all for you...
He did it all for you...

Oh so many ways for me to show you
How your dogma has abandoned you

Pray to your Christ, to your God
Never taste of the fruit, never stray, never break, never
Choke on a lie even though he's the one who
Did this to you, you never thought to question "Why?"

It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why

He did it all for you...
He did it all for you...
He did it all for yo

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

This is of course "It Ain't Necessarily So" from the musical "Porgy and Bess" which it is better known to the rest of the world outside Australia

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An all time classic

But as a kid I know of the Porgy and Bess version and I only heard it from another version by an Australian pop idol Normie Rowe.
The nuns at school kept lecturing us that the song was blasphemous and it was a "mortal sin" to buy a record or listen to it, with the bad grammer of its title to boot.
I think it made me all the more determined to buy a single of it. It was that led to believe Normie Rowe wrote it.
At the time the Sydney radio station 2SM banned it because of its so called "blasphemous" lyrics so it only got to #6 on the charts there but #1 in Melbourne.

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"It Ain't Necessarily So" lyrics in full Porgy and Bess version:

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The t'ings dat yo' li'ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.

Li'l David was small, but oh my !
Li'l David was small, but oh my !
He fought Big Goliath
Who lay down an' dieth !
Li'l David was small, but oh my !

Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo,
Hoodle ah da wa da,
Scatty wah !
Oh yeah !...

Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale,
Fo' he made his home in
Dat fish's abdomen.
Oh Jonah, he lived in de whale.

Li'l Moses was found in a stream.
Li'l Moses was found in a stream.
He floated on water
Till Ol' Pharaoh's daughter,
She fished him, she said, from dat stream.

Wadoo ...

Well, it ain't necessarily so
Well, it ain't necessarily so
Dey tells all you chillun
De debble's a villun,
But it ain't necessarily so !

To get into Hebben
Don' snap for a sebben !
Live clean ! Don' have no fault !
Oh, I takes dat gospel
Whenever it's pos'ble,
But wid a grain of salt.

Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,
Methus'lah lived nine hundred years,
But who calls dat livin'
When no gal will give in
To no man what's nine hundred years ?

I'm preachin' dis sermon to show,
It ain't nece-ain't nece
Ain't nece-ain't nece
Ain't necessarily ... so !


Normie Rowe's version

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the bible
It ain't necessarily so

Moses was found in a stream
Moses was found in a stream
Saved from the water
By Old Feral's daughter
Moses was found in a stream

Jonah he lived in a whale
Well Jonah he lived in a whale
He made his home in
That vicious abdomen
Jonah he lived in a whale

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things that your preacher
Is liable to teach you
Ain't necessarily so

David was small but oh my
Well David was small but oh my
He fought with Goliath
Who lay down and sieth
David was small but oh my

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things your preacher
Is liable to teach you
It ain't necessarily so

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the bible
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so