A friend sent this to me today... a seasonal Atheist song!
It's sung to the tune of GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN.
Gods Rest Ye Merry, Atheists
Gods Rest Ye Merry, Atheists
Let nothing you dismay
Remember there's no evidence
Christ was born on that Day.
When Christ was born is just not known,
No matter what they say.
Oh, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Oh, 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 a pagan feast.
Oh, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Oh, tidings of reason and fact.
There was no Star of Bethlehem,
There was no angels song,
There could not have been wise men
For the trip would take too long.
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong.
Oh, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Oh, tidings of reason and fact!
[To the tune of "We Three Kings"]
We four horsemen honestly are
Unimpressed by Yaweh so far.
Explanation for creation?
Really, he's quite subpar.
Chorus:
O-oh
You can wonder at the night
You can call yourself a "Bright";
Not a smidgen of religion
Do you need for living right!
Harris:
If you think some cultural swill
Makes it right to torture and kill,
That's perverse, not just diverse:
Maybe you're mentally ill.
[Chorus]
Dennett:
Made by evolution are we,
Built to act beneficently.
Since we're soulless, we control us:
We can be truly free
[Chorus]
Dawkins:
Nature's strange selection machine
Need not make you nasty or mean
Or a creep. The nicest people
Came from a selfish gene
[Chorus]
Hitchens:
Humans shouldn't cower or crawl;
Faith just makes us hateful and small,
We'll start growing strong by knowing
God isn't great at all!
To get that line to work you have to sing "pa-ay ga-an"This whole darn Christmas spiel is just a pagan feast.
Originally Posted by JentheUnbeliever
"pay again" if you count spiel as having two syllables.To get that line to work you have to sing "pa-ay ga-an"
(Hark, the Herald Angels Sing)
Harken to the songs we sing.
Joy and hope and love we bring.
Peace on earth to every child.
Man and Nature reconciled.
Joyful, all ye nations rise.
Join the triumph over lies.
All together, now proclaim:
We are one, and all the same.
Harken to the songs we sing.
Joy and hope and love we bring.
Put aside your tribal ways.
Sing, no more, your hymns of praise.
There is nothing more divine than
Man and Nature, intertwined.
Look to science, look to reason;
End this supernatural season.
Stop believing mindless things.
Stop living life as underlings.
Harken to the songs we sing.
Joy and hope and love we bring.
Look around and you will see
Pain and human misery.
Wasted time you can't afford;
Kindness is its own reward.
All religion is a cancer.
Humanism is the answer.
Life is brief, but if you can,
Pause to help your fellow man.
Harken to the songs we sing.
Joy and hope and love we bring.
Copyright 1997, by Jerry Phillips
Others here.
http://holtz.org/Library/Philosophy/...ols%202000.htm
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