Top 10 Atheist Songs

There are long lists of atheistic songs here and elsewhere, but here are my top faves. (The ones with atheistic lyrics, anyway.)

10. Slayer – “Jesus Saves”

You go to the church, you kiss the cross

You will be saved at any cost

You have your own reality

Christianity

You spend your life just kissing ass

A trait thats grown as time has passed

You think the world will end today

You praise the lord, its all you say

9. Metallica – “Leper Messiah”

Time for lust, time for lie

time to kiss your life goodbye

Send me money, send me green

Heaven you will meet

Make a contribution

and you’ll get a better seat

Bow to Leper Messiah Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix

blind devotion came, rotting your brain

Chain, chain

Join the endless chain, taken by his glamour

Fame, Fame

Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power

8. Jeff Buckley – “Eternal Life”

There’s no time for hatred, only questions

Where is love, where is happiness, what is Life,

where is peace? When will I find the strength to bring me release?

And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?

Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead

And I’ve got a message for you and your twisted hell

You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye

to life eternal angel

7. Bad Religion – “God’s Love”

(Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?

In a careless creation

When there’s no “above”

There’s no justice

Just a cause and a cure

And a bounty of suffering

It seems we all endure

And what I’m frightened of

Is that they call it “God’s love”

6. Tool – “Opiate”

If you want to get your soul to heaven,

trust in me .

Don’t judge or question.

You are broken now ,

but faith can heal you.

Just do everything I tell you to do.

Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.

Let me lay my holy hand upon you. My Gods will

becomes me.

When he speaks out,

he speaks through me.

He has needs

like I do.

We both want

to rape you. Jesus Christ, why don’t you come save my life.

Open my eyes and blind me with your light

and your lies.

5. Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie

hey God

why are you doing this to me?

am i not living up to what i’m supposed to be?

why am i seething with this animosity?

hey God

i think you owe me a great big apology.

terrible lie

4. George Gershwin – It Ain’t Necessarily So

The things you’re liable

To read in a bible

Ain’t necessarily so.

Ain’t necessarily so.

No, it ain’t necessarily so.

3. The Arcade Fire – “Intervention”

Working for the church

While your family dies

You take what they give you

And you keep it inside

Every spark of friendship and love

Will die without a home

Hear the soldier groan, “We’ll go at it alone”

2. XTC – “Dear God”

Dear god, hope you get the letter and…

I pray you can make it better down here

I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer

But all the people that you made in your image

See them starving in the street

‘Cause they don’t get enough to eat from god

I can’t believe in you

1. John Lennon – “Imagine”