Atheists don’t have no songs
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5 responses to “Atheists don’t have no songs”
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“Gregorian chants” and “underpants” is one of the best rhymes I’ve heard all year.
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A Pray Tell reader sends in this verse, written by a Unitarian:
Jesus Christ is risen today, alleluia.
What that means we cannot say, alleluia.
Yes, he died, that much is true, alleluia.
After that we have no clue, alleluia. -
Then there’s the famous Unitarian Christmas carol:
Gods rest ye, Unitarians, let nothing you dismay;
Remember there’s no evidence there was a Christmas Day;
When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.Our current Christmas Customs come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East.
This whole darn Christmas spiel is just another pagan feast,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angels’ song;
There couldn’t have been wise men for the trip would take too long.
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact! -
I thought this was funny (Gregorian chants / underpants is indeed the best rhyme of the year) but it’s not true that atheists have no songs. The Internationale boasts a better tune than the Star Spangled Banner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale#English_lyrics
You can download an MP3 in more than 40 different languages!
http://www.hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html -
here’s a good little Christmas Carol from John Calvin, I’m sorry it doesn’t rhyme in English…
>>I see that there are more of you out there than are accustomed to attending my sermons.
Why is this? It is Christmas Day….What treachery, that you would
celebrate Christmas today! Do you think you are honoring God by this?
How truly obedient do you think you are to God?.
..True, you think you honor God,
but in point of fact you honor Satan….<<<<John Calvin, Sermons on Micah, trans. Blair Reynolds (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1990)
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