Every now and then, Zod and I have made noises about making a topic for the nonbelievers, because the lot of us often filter into the Christian music threads with questions and observations that are kind of inappropriate in a discussion that has nothing to do with us; I always hated it when atheist forums got drive-by bombs from theists, so I try to avoid doing the same to them. We got to talking about it again at PP, so I went ahead and created the topic.
I have never really cared if a band/musician is atheist or not. I don't even much care if a band is Christian, as long as they aren't of the praise and glory or fire and brimstone variety. But it's always interesting to note who openly identifies as some variety of nonbeliever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists_(music)
^^ This is obviously an incomplete list, as it's missing Neil Peart. I went to a Rush show in Portland OR a few years ago, and I remarked to my companion how amazing it was that Rush could get away with such blatant references to nonbelief - Ghost of a Chance, Roll the Bones, etc. (I'd list Faithless and other tracks too, but they were never publicly put about on radio and MTV) and not suffer negative feedback, protests, or bans. I'm not sure if this just means nobody (to whom this would be offensive) is actually paying attention.
I'm still a little brain-dead from the weekend, so feel free to take it from there.
Note: discussion from the theist crowd is more than welcome, but I think we'd all greatly appreciate it if nobody stooped to OMG YOU HATE GOD AND YOU'RE GOING TO HELL or conversion attempts or other annoying preachy things. If you wouldn't want to hear it from us, don't say it to us. :Smokin:
I have never really cared if a band/musician is atheist or not. I don't even much care if a band is Christian, as long as they aren't of the praise and glory or fire and brimstone variety. But it's always interesting to note who openly identifies as some variety of nonbeliever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists_(music)
^^ This is obviously an incomplete list, as it's missing Neil Peart. I went to a Rush show in Portland OR a few years ago, and I remarked to my companion how amazing it was that Rush could get away with such blatant references to nonbelief - Ghost of a Chance, Roll the Bones, etc. (I'd list Faithless and other tracks too, but they were never publicly put about on radio and MTV) and not suffer negative feedback, protests, or bans. I'm not sure if this just means nobody (to whom this would be offensive) is actually paying attention.
I'm still a little brain-dead from the weekend, so feel free to take it from there.
Note: discussion from the theist crowd is more than welcome, but I think we'd all greatly appreciate it if nobody stooped to OMG YOU HATE GOD AND YOU'RE GOING TO HELL or conversion attempts or other annoying preachy things. If you wouldn't want to hear it from us, don't say it to us. :Smokin: