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Further reading:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-atheists-we-distrust/ The journey from faith to atheism, and why some people find it threatening.Further reading:

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Okay, so if belief in a supernatural monitor god

That supervises morality

Is a cultural evolutionary adaptation

That spread because it incentivized cooperation

In large scale socieites

Giving them an adaptive edge in competitions

Well then that predicts that religious people

Should really mistrust atheists, huh?



I used to call myself an agnostic

But that was just me bein' politically correct

What's my name? Baba! The B-A-B-A's a

Mystic honorific in south and west Asia

Named for my contemplative demeanour at the scene of my nativity

My folks were hippies in the seventies

They thought a baby with the face of a Buddhist monk

Must be a reincarnated Buddhist monk, who’d've thunk?

I grew up around a lotta new age woo

Deepak Chopra, Yoga, What the Bleep Do

We know, holy Eckhart Tolle, it was a heady brew

And yeah, I went through a woo phase too

I'm still cool with the yoga stretchin’

But not with supernatural forces, nonexistent

No gods, no heaven, no hell

No karma, except for the kind we forge ourselves

And loads of heathens have told me that even though they don't believe in

Them, they think that other people need them to be moral creatures

If gods don’t exist, they needs to be invented

‘Cause without them everything is permitted



We live in your neighbourhood

Don’t be afraid of us

For facing the world without faith



Get used to us, we’re stayin’ put

And if you try livin’ without god

You might find it liberates



My atheism’s intellectual

Faith-based claims are either untestable

Or testable and evidentially contemptible

But then I learned that atheists are unelectable

And trusted somewhat less than child molesters

Damn, I thought it was an epistemological question!

You’re thinkin’ just because I don’t believe I’m bein’ watched

When I’m alone, that I’m about to go turn into Ghengis Kahn?

Or pull a Sandy Hook on ‘em? Get a grip man

Morality is like a bike, religion’s like a kick stand

You can’t imagine somebody being honest

Without the aid of a crutch, because you’re leaning on it

I get it, but god is not the only scaffolding

That props you up with tough choices when you’re grappling

It may come as a slap in the face to republicans

But atheism increases under stable governments

In other words, people don’t need gods

When they feel they can trust cops to keep the laws

You think trust is earned by showin’ up for church?

I trust an Uber driver first, you can check his work

My grandfather thought religion can save us

But I place more faith in digital reputations

Besides, religion isn’t always ethical

Je suis Charlie Hebdo



We live in your neighbourhood

Don’t be afraid of us

For facing the world without faith



Get used to us, we’re stayin’ put

And if you try livin’ without god

You might find it liberates



All my nonbelievers

All my godless heathens

Ask us why we’re not just bein’

Evil, we got lots of reasons



And if you stopped believin’

Would you be choppin’ people up?

What’s keepin’ you from slaughtering?

I hope it’s not just preachers



Greydon Square:

I used to believe in a god just like fools

Before The Compton Effect, The Scale, and Type 2

Before the physics

The christian god was the lord of wisdom

I was the same and abhorred the different

As a black dude I ate it up

I would shuffle into the pews and pray for stuff

Stay for what?

The girls with the amazing butts

Of course I’m an ape, being forced a bible but the fables sucked

Slave lineage

They taught us to shame the knowledge and praise ignorance

After grace

The methods were just insidious

But believe it even though it’s hideous,

Cuz “masta say”

I thought “no way this could be heaven sent”

So I started doing research, looking for evidence

Inspect theology and afterlife

Stepping into vivid color from a simple life of black and white

Now when I’m smashin’ the mic

My appetite is disruptive facts on wax that you happen to like

They say we're less moral

Naw, we just sniff the bullshit out like it’s fresh floral

We actually test thorough



We live in your neighbourhood

Don’t be afraid of us

For facing the world without faith



Get used to us, we’re stayin’ put

And if you try livin’ without god

You might find it liberates

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Written by D. Brinkman, J. Simmonds, and G. Square

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. Simmonds

Additional Keys by Simon Kendall

Guest Verse by Greydon Square from The Rap Guide to Religion , released October 23, 2015Written by D. Brinkman, J. Simmonds, and G. SquareProduced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr. SimmondsAdditional Keys by Simon KendallGuest Verse by Greydon Square

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