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    I really dig this song,maybe you would to ?  


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If you like this

Hey this is pretty cool. I've never heard of Rational Warrior but I'll definitely have to check out more of his stuff. If you like this, then you might like MC Frontalot. He calls the hip-hop style he plays "Nerdcore" and it definitely is. I sent a video of one of his songs to PZ Myers recently, which he put up on his page, if you saw that. It's one of my favorite songs by him called "Origin of Species".

If you can't read the lyrics, here they are:

Congregation, settle in your seats.
The Reverend Front Aloud is on the mic and about to speak.
I'm about to freak you out, make you shiver in the pew
while I'm delivering to you my sermon and divinity ensues,
brought by the one true God. It's a fact:
anybody else who ever had a God, their God's wack.
We ain't got to worry about 'em; we picked the right horse.
You're in the right house of worship (of course),
and forces are gathering out in the world
to diminish our faith in ways radical and thorough,
to discourage us from loving anything that's immaterial,
to tempt our children with ever fruitier cereal,
and worst of all, to call us idiots while they do it.
My congregation, listen; I'm about to walk you through it.
We're going to take the nation back from the heathens that's within it.
We're gonna get the most egregious of the atheists imprisoned,
cause a schism while we're at it, but emerge on top,
and once we've purified our ranks we won't stop —
we'll purify your minds of what's illegitimately thought.
It's not to be a battle indiscriminately fought,
but an orchestrated effort, and I'm gonna need you to commit.
Might take a couple generations for this deviltry to quit.
Start with the kids — in fact, they get distracted from the Lord —
so I'd like you to write a couple letters to your school board.

Do you, do you really believe
that we were nothing but them monkeys swinging up in the trees?
Don't it seem a little likelier that Adam and Eve
did a lot of humping, and that was the origin of the species?

And what has this so-called science ever done for us
but trumpeted that when ashes go to ashes & dust to dust,
despite the fuss of living, energy gets conserved.
Denying the weight of the soul of a man: this is ill deserved.
This is still the curse of Copernicus that we suffer.
Secular thought ought not to overflow its buffer
and run roughshod through the minds of you, the population.
Heretics such as Dawkins and Sagan overstep their station
to say that what we see and what we believe should be confluent.
Look to your Reverend to end apostasy — that's what I'm doing!
Look to your Holy Book to light the way; that is its purpose.
Open it up and you'll find Eden 'fore you even scratch the surface.
And sure, this should be mirrored in the textbooks verbatim
but I'm not in a position yet to issue ultimatum.
So I lay down my scheme: we'll make it seem as though creation
isn't anything we'd like to interject to education.
We'll wrangle up the language: science, data, theorem,
the irreducible complexity of the ears we use to hear 'em
gnashing teeth and wailing from Kansas to PA.
Yes, my flock, I talk of futures not imminent but underway.
Already established an Institute for Discovery.
Discovered that Darwin is dead with outlook grim for recovery.
Schoolmarms will soon say that he burns in a fiery sea.
Think how much like paradise that's gonna be.

"This may shock you, but not everything in the bible is true." The only true statement ever to be uttered by Jean Chauvinism, sociopathic emotional terrorist.
"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished." Mikhail Bakunin
"The means in which you take,
dictate the ends in which you find yourself."
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme leadership derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!"
No Gods, No Masters!


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B166ER wrote: then you might like MC Frontalot

   Yep he's very good, I really like the media's way of promoting atheism, O'yeah by the way I brought my liver Doctor a copy of " No Gods,No Masters" she likes it a lot,     she's from Northern Iran and a atheist,very cool. It must have been very hard growing up in a Theocracy.  

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ken's song (if you can call

ken's song (if you can call it that) sounds anti-religion. The next 'song' sounds pro-religion to me.

I don't get it.

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Sandycane wrote:ken's song

Sandycane wrote:

ken's song (if you can call it that) sounds anti-religion. The next 'song' sounds pro-religion to me.

I don't get it.

I thought the same, but the way they bring it makes it sound sarcastic... "Adam and Eve humped... and there was a species"


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Thunderios wrote: makes it sound sarcastic

     Yep,that's how I read it. People that are religious seems to miss sarcasms altogether,that's why I think it's funny.   

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Ken G. wrote:    

Ken G. wrote:

     Yep,that's how I read it. People that are religious seems to miss sarcasms altogether,that's why I think it's funny.   

I love sarcasm - I'm actually quite good at it.

...and like the song, most people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.  Although, except for the chorus of the song, the lyrics read pro-religion to me... not enough sarcasm, imo.

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Ken G. wrote:
O'yeah by the way I brought my liver Doctor a copy of " No Gods,No Masters"

Nice! It's always cool when people are exposed to ideas outside of their normal everyday milieu, and not just because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist and it's one of the defining books of the philosophy. XD

Sandycane wrote:
...and like the song, most people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.  Although, except for the chorus of the song, the lyrics read pro-religion to me... not enough sarcasm, imo.

It's written and performed like that because it's coming from the perspective of a professional liar preacher who is working to promote that kind of theocratic bullshit. It's supposed to sound pro-religion since the people trying to pull us back into the dark ages do, for the most part, actually believe that shit and are pro-religion. If it sounded too sarcastic, then the crazy perspective of the theocratic kooks would be lost, and the point of the song (that religious fundies literally want to take over the world) would be lost.

"This may shock you, but not everything in the bible is true." The only true statement ever to be uttered by Jean Chauvinism, sociopathic emotional terrorist.
"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished." Mikhail Bakunin
"The means in which you take,
dictate the ends in which you find yourself."
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme leadership derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!"
No Gods, No Masters!