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The Top 5 Songs About Faith/The Top 5 Songs About Atheism

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Religion.

And

Music.

I can find a plethora of reasons why the two should be kept separate like church and state. That said, there are definitely great, catchy songs in both categories, and these are the top 5 in each. Please say a prayer for me for making this list.

Songs about Faith

These are popular songs about God. Not Christian or gospel music, because both of those genres suck. No, I'm talking popular, catchy songs about and featuring the Big Dude upstairs. Amen.

5. "Put Your Hand in the Hand" by Ocean

This hippy dippy love song about God is very upbeat and has a highly positive message about faith. Your Sunday school teacher would approve.



4. "One of Us" by Joan Osbourne

This hugely popular song about God riding next to you on the bus (Possibly with an iPod) got a lot of people singing about the Lord again. Even if they were atheists. Just because it was so damn catchy.



3. "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West

Though liking Kanye is blasphemous in itself since he's so awful, this song about rising up in the name of Christ had a pretty thumping beat and message at the time. And even though a lot of the song's message is deflated when he starts talking about "eating pieces of shit," it still had people in the club shouting, "Jesus walks!" over and over again, so that's good.



2. "Jesus is Just Alright With Me" by the Doobie Brothers

While the Doob's weren't the first to do this song, the Doob's slammed it home. God never sounded so good on the radio.



1. "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" by Kiss

Sure, I could have shouted out Bill and Ted on this one. But to think that the man who created the devil horns (Come on, give it to Gene Simmons), also was in the same group that performed the most ultimate song about God ever. Sure, Argent did it first, but Kiss' version is so much better. It's glorious.



Top Five Songs About Atheism

Songs about the absence of faith are often just as compelling as songs about the belief in faith, especially since most of these songs were actually pretty popular. Does that mean that people supported Atheism when they popped these in their tape decks? Hmm...the world may never admit it.

5. "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel

So upbeat, so happy, and so atheistic. Just listen to the lyrics. Man's a non-believer.



4. "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.

The absence of faith is right there in the title. But it's so good that even true believers would sing it at their concerts. That's just the power of R.E.M.



3."The Only Way (Hymn)" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

It's a complex song musically, with a not so complex message. Religion is deceptive. Says, ELP.



2. "Dear, God" by XTC

XTC may not be the most popular group in the world, but this song drew a lot of attention when it was first released, mostly because if its ANGRY message about the absence of God in our lives. Of all the songs that could draw outrage and be popular at the same time, this might be it.



1. "Imagine" by John Lennon

This might be one of the most fascinating songs on this list, only because I think its message of a life without religion being a better life is often forgotten, even though it's the MAIN message of the song. I mean, jeez, it was even sung on American Idol, making it the greatest song about Atheism of all time.

Proof of the Devil Through a Wolverine/Magneto Comparison

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If you believe in God (And if you don't, no biggie, I'm not here to judge), then you have to believe in the Devil. And if you don't believe in the Devil, then I'm guessing you've been fooled by him like Keyser Sose says in the movie, The Usual Suspects, namely being that, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist."

Now, I don't believe in the Devil, either. Mankind is bad enough, but Marvel has provided me with factual evidence of the Devil's existence in Magneto, so I can't dispute it anymore. The Devil is real. Dead real.

Stick with me here.

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Let's look at Wolverine for example. He's as close to being as omnipotent as a mutant aught to be. With his healing factor, heightened senses, and most importantly, his adamantium bones, he's pretty much unstoppable. I mean, seriously, his bones are literally indestructible. You could shoot him in the face, throw him off a building, or crush him with an elevator and he'd survive. His skin might be destroyed and torn, but his bones would persist, and would eventually just grow around his bones. He's invincible.

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Now, many might say, well, why don't you just choose Superman for your example if you're talking about omnipotent beings, but no, I won't do that because Superman sucks. Let's move on.

Wolverine can't be killed. He seriously can't. That is, of course, until he can. Enter Erik Lehnsherr, better known to you non-comic geeks as Magneto. Lord Magnus was in the very first X-Men comic in 1963, predating Wolverine's first appearance in a Hulk issue in 1974. Magneto is the only character in the entire Marvel universe who could, if he really wanted to (And if Wolverine wasn't so popular) kill Wolverine.

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In the epic, Fatal Attractions saga, Magneto got his chance and pulled Wolverine's adamantium right out of his body, leaving him a wrecked mess who could have been given the coup de grace at any time. He was seriously toast. Because of his popularity, though, he didn't die, and we went on to find out that Wolverine actually had bone claws, and that the metal was actually harming him rather than helping him, and yada, yada, yada, that's besides the point.

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The point I'm trying to make here is that Marvel had no idea that a character like Wolverine would exist when they created Magneto. As I mentioned earlier, Magneto predates Wolverine by about eleven years. That said, when Wolverine was created, I'm sure they weren't thinking that he'd be a good character to pit against Magneto someday. Nobody thinks that far down the line when they're creating something, and a lot of different writers came along in-between the periods of Wolverine's first appearance and Fatal Attractions. So, while the argument is moot, I think I can clearly say that Wolverine's adamantium was created without the thought of Magneto one day being the only person who could really kill the 5'4 Canuck. Wouldn't you tend to agree?

So, what's my point and how does this relate to God and the Devil? Well, it relates to an argument that's as clear as night and day, or as clear as having water and not having water. If you have a force, let's call it, yin, then you need to have a counter-force, let's call it yang. Now, these two forces can't exist without the other, and they don't really need to be put together by any real force other than fate. As in all things in nature, they just fall into place naturally. That said, Wolverine couldn't just be an indestructible mutant who couldn't be killed. Nothing in nature, or even above nature, can be like that. So even if it wasn't planned, the cosmos had to align to make an alternate force, and Magneto is that alternate force.

Ergo, if God exists, then there has to be an alternate force like the Devil that is also omnipotent and exists, or God can't exist. It's as simple as that.

I'm right, and that's that.

Or not. I'm just messing around.

Here's a song by Wingspan to make up for it.