Talk:Atheist music
Tool's (almost) atheist music
Posting this in the talk page since I can't edit the main page. Tool is a progressive rock band that I mostly enjoy, and if I could write an entry about it, it'd go a bit like this:
Tool is a progressive rock band that often appears to have atheistic music on the surface, but in fact protests Catholicism and Christian cults. There are two such songs in particular that stand out- Opiate and Eulogy. Opiate seems to oppose Christianity in general, but is in fact against the institution of the Catholic Church, which is especially evident on the album cover of the same name. Eulogy also seems to target Christianity as a whole, but interviews with the band have explained that the song was meant to oppose L. Ron Hubbard and his cult church of Scientology. The band most recently proved itself to be pro-Christian with the song 10,000 Days, which is a tribute to the lead singer's deceased and devoutly Christian mother, honoring his mother's salvation of him. The name of the song comes from his mother being a paraplegic for 27 years, which is approximately 10,000 days.
I'm not too keen on adding Prison Sex as the song about the singer's abusive step-father, from which his mother saved, due to how dark the lyrics are. --Pious (talk) 02:39, 21 August 2016 (EDT)
Atheist, or just anti-biblical?
It ain't necessarily so is the famous one of course. A character in Porgy and Bess casting doubt on biblical veracity. The things that you're liable to read in the Bible, it ain't necessarily so. (And yes, Pious, for most of its life since 1930-something it has been "popular music".)
- AlanE (talk) 01:11, 22 August 2016 (EDT)
- Alan is correct. Non-Christian/anti-Christian is not synonymous with atheist. If it were, every Muslim/Hindu/pagan would be an atheist. Conservative (talk) 01:43, 22 August 2016 (EDT)
