Anti-god/anti-religion songs

God's Comic
Elvis Costello

I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny feller
The crowd would hoot and holler for more
I wore a drunk's red nose for applause
Oh yes I was a comical priest
"With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece"
Drooling the drink and the lipstick and greasepaint
Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead,
now I'm dead, now I'm dead
And I'm going on to meet my reward
I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
He might have never heard God's Comic

So there he was on a water-bed
Drinking a cola of a mystery brand
Reading an airport novelette, listening to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's "Requiem"
He said, before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about my son"
"I've been wading through all this unbelievable
junk and wondering if I should have given
the world to the monkeys"

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead,
now I'm dead, now I'm dead
And I'm going on to meet my reward
I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
He might have never heard God's Comic

I'm going to take a little trip down Paradise's endless shores
They say that travel broadens the mind, 'til you can't get your head out of doors

I'm sitting here on the top of the world
I hang around in the longest night
Until each beast has gone bed and then I say
"God bless" and turn out the light
While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe and you beg and you promise
And you bargain and you plead
Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
It's the big white beard I suppose
I'm going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold
I might be gone for a while if you need me

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead,
now I'm dead, now I'm dead and you're all
going on to meet your reward

Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared?
Are you scared?
You might have never heard, but God's comic

The Cure

"Us or Them"

There is no terror in my heart
Death is with us all
We suck him down with our first breath
And spit him out as we fall
There is no terror in my heart
No dread of the unknown
Desire for paradise to be...
We love this on our own
No I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your f_cking world out of my head
I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your f_cking world out of my head
I don't want your "us or them"
No I don't need your "us or them"
Oh I don't want your "us or them"
I don't need your "us or them
You're us or them..."
"I live in knowledge of real truth
And all my gods are great!"
The doleful cant of a bigot
Blinded by fear and hate
You live in knowledge of real truth?
Oh the biggest lie I heard
How sick in your mind and soul
To be scared of my voice and my words
Oh you don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my f_cking head out of your world
You don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my f_cking head out of your world
I don't want your "us or them"
No I don't need your "us or them"
Oh I don't want your "us or them"
I don't need your "us or them"
As the only way this ever ends is "me"

Marilyn Manson ~ Antichrist Superstar

you built me up with your wishing hell
I didn't have to sell you
you threw your money in the pissing well
you do just what they tell you
REPENT, that's what I'm talking about
i shed the skin to feed the fake
REPENT, that's what I'm talking about
whose mistake am i anyway?
Cut the head off
Grows back hard
I am the hydra
now you'll see your star
prick your finger it is done
the moon has now eclipsed the sun
the angel has spread its wings
the time has come for bitter things
[chorus]

the time has come it is quite clear
our antichrist
is almost here...
it is done

Tool- the grudge

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. hang on or be humbled again.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. ignorant to the damage done.

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Wear the grudge like a crown. desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. and were sinking deeper.

Defining, confining, sinking deeper. controlling, defining, and were sinking
Deeper.

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Lets you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.

Saturn comes back around. lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.

Give away the stone. let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated
Anchor.
Give away the stone. let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges
Into gold.

Let go.

I think there are some lyrics in there that define to some extent what religion is.

Skold "Dead God"

Rewrite the Constitution,
justify the Revolution.
The end is here.
If you are part of the institution,
you are not part of the solution.
Bow down to fear.

I, I, I am the President.
I, I, the Emperor.
I, I, I am the King of the World!
The only good God is a dead God!
The only God good for me.
The only good God is a dead God, baby!
The only damn God I need.

Don’t draw your own conclusion,
submit to the grand illusion.
Get on your knees.
There will be no absolution,
no final step of Evolution.
The end is near.

I, I, I am the President.
I, I, the Emperor.
I, I, I am the King of the World!
The only good God is a dead God!
The only God good for me.
The only good God is a dead God, baby!
The only damn God I need.
The only good God is a dead God.
The only God good for me.
The only good God is a dead God, baby!
The only damn God I need.

Your world means nothing to me.
Your Savior’s a fake, stealing your dreams.
And when you’re ultimately fulfilling your own prophecy.
No skin off my teeth.

The only good God is a dead God!
The only God good for me.
The only good God is a dead God, baby!
The only damn God I need.
The only good God is a dead God.
The only God good for me.
The only good God is a dead God, baby!
The only ******* God I need.

I kill your King of deceit.
Chaos!
Come onto me.
I am free.
And when you’re ultimately consumed by your own ******* greed.
You will see.

Here's a rockin' little tune.

Lennon's "God"..."Imagine"... Todd Rundgren's "God" and fascist Christ." and that's just a start

Are heretical Christians allowed to post in this thread? I hope so -- I sure can't show these vids to my Christian friends, although I honestly don't "get" the problem.





rebecca

John Lennon "IMIMAGINE " a world without religion, countries, possessions, greed, or hunger

Try Tim Minchin. Various songs like The Pope Song, the Good Book, and a brilliant beat poem against illogical thinking in general, Storm. Oh, and another anti-God song, Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins.

AC/DC - Who Made Who
Alice In Chains - Man in the Box
Bill Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
- East Jesus Nowhere
- Church on Sunday
John Lennon - Imagine
- God
Marilyn Manson - Posthuman
- The Reflecting God
- Dogma
Coven - One Tin Soldier
Nirvana - Jesus Don't Want me for a Sunbeam (A Vaseline Cover)
NOFX - Pods and Gods
- The Idiots are Taking Over
- The Best God in Show
- You're Wrong
System of a Down - Suite Pee
Toadies - I Come From the Water
Tool - Sober
- Opiate
A Perfect Circle - Judith
XTC - Dear God
Bob Dylan - With God on our Side (1964)
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
NIN - Heresy
- Terrible Lie
- Head Like A Hole
Pigface - Think (Addiction / Salvation mix)
Danzig - Snakes of Christ
Suicidal Tendencies - Send Me Your Money

Seems like most of Tim Minchin's output involves, well, insulting, lovers of intersections.

Here's his latest

Much more mainstream

Elton John's 'If there's a god in heaven (what's he waiting for)
Torn from their families
Mothers go hungry
To feed their children
But children go hungry

There's so many big men
They're out making millions
When poverty's profits
Just blame the children

If there's a God in heaven
What's he waiting for?
If he can't hear the children
Then he must see the war
But it seems to me
That he leads his lambs
To the slaughter house
And not the promised land

Dying for causes
They don't understand
We've been taking their futures
Right out of their hands
They need the handouts
To hold back the tears
There's so many crying
But so few that hear

Repeat chorus and fade