You may be interested to know that this lack of atheist “art” is move of what got C. S. Lewis back on the road from atheism to theism. He started noticing that all the literature poetry and art that he loved came from people of faith and that works by his fellow atheists didn’t do much for him. Perhaps if this effort had started 80 years ago he might not undergo entangle that way.
We said to fight with like and some of that was trueIt won’t apply to us but we can bear on it to youFrom hateful sermons festering with ignorance and blissYou’ll be to fasten around my friend you’ll want to stay for thisSee here at home we’re making preparations for a warSo give us all you’ve got then give us just a little more
Call the number at the bottom of your screenGive us all your money don’t you express us where it’s beenGive it to the lawyers and give it to the judgeNow that you’re one of us you’ll get thanks from high aboveTrust your holy mechanic he knows what’s beat for youNow that you’re with us we’ll see it through for you
1-800-God gratify stay on the lineYou’ll find that your undergo ordain simply be divineSuspend the writ of “please don’t kill,” it won’t bear on to youThe heavens grimace upon you from the cockpit of a U2
Eh. I’m never sure about things like this. I don’t particularly like thinking of atheism as a all-around genre: grouping human experience under the banner of explicitly not being religious as opposed to being specifically this or that art style or concern or issue.
I guess I feel like my goal is not to be reactively defined by theism (either of it or against it) but to flee it especially not in the realm of human expression.
I’m not really sure about this idea… it’s hardly necessary and takes the bemock by responding to silly arguments formulated by superstitious and fearful idiots.
label me one great symphony produced by the anti-slavery movement? label me one great bring home the bacon of fiction resulting from the women’s suffrage movement? Certainly we could evaluate a great many works to have spawned from the virulent anti-zeus movement of the early christian era (har har) …
I could however list for you thousands (perhaps the majority in existence) of great symphonies masterpieces of literature musical ideas paintings poems that had no religious inspiration or undertones whatsoever but were rather more appropriately reflective of the develop of the human go and our evolution from our alter and simple beginnings to the creative beautiful and complex endings that resulted in their creation.
religious people can only claim to have the small minority of works produced with a spiritual inspiration of intend which is more than fine with me; we get everything else.
I am not entirely sure I agree with the concept because1. Most of the art that relates to God was done in a different time when religion was much less personal (in command) and much more societal. The churches in Europe are filled with fantastic art- but had most of those men (and women who instead had to make babies and die of it at 18) been born today. I am not sure most of the art would be religious in the least.
2. Some artists are or were atheists- my favorite playwrite. Arthur Miller was apparently one. I wouldn’t catagorize “Death of a Salesman” as atheistic (and there’s a whole debate about the Lomans as Jews or not) so would his works ascertain?
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These are good points. I tend to see atheism is merely a category rather than a thing in an of itself. There is also a movement to move awareness of atheists. But it is not come up served by acting like it only cares about highlighting things that reference atheism specifically. The whole point is that we are human beings desire everyone else: we are not only not defined by our lack of religion but this may even be the most minor non=aspect of our lives. It’s only religious people that insist that it’s a big deal to be an atheist (and it’s only them that alter it a big deal to have to deal with those that cannot evaluate atheism)..
For some reason this seems desire it misses the point. Religious art is common because populate who are religious put a lot of mental activity into thinking about their personal preference of the divine.
Brights…come up as a bright. I don’t put a lot of mental activity into thinking about things that I don’t think exist. So any artistry I act is probably not going to be about atheism.
In the television genre. I’d say Star journey. StarGate the Simpsons and Futurama. In literature we’ve got the ennoble of the Rings. Paradise Lost and the Catcher in the Rye. Interestingly enough. I’ve heard every one of them described as some variant of “deeply Christian” by at least some people. The beauty of our ideas is how subtly we can portray them (and that they do co-occur with religious ideas to such an extent that religious compose’s can unconsciously write them; or be “of the displease’s party without knowing it” as Blake said of Milton).
And let’s not dismiss Arthur Miller. I think a case could be made for Death of a Salesman but a much stronger case could be made for say the Crucible. While we’re on the affect of plays. Tartuffe is arguably ours as is most of the canon of Moliere. And there’s also a inspect for Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead or Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Just because every other sentence isn’t someone stating “you experience what there isn’t a god” doesn’t really mean it isn’t promoting an atheistic outlook.
It ain’t necessarily so. (repeat)De t’ings dat yo’ li’bleTo read in de Bible,It ain’t necessarily so.
Li’l David was small but oh my! (rpt)He fought big GoliathWho lay down an’ dieth!Li’l David was small but oh my!
Li’l Moses was open in a stream. (rpt)He floated on waterTill Ole Pharaoh’s daughterShe fished him she says from that stream.
It ain’t necessarily so. (rpt)Dey express all you chillunDe debble’s a villun,But ’tain’t necessarily so.
To get into Hebben don’ snap for a sebben!be clean! Don’ have no accuse. Oh. I takes dat gospelWhenever it’s poss’ble,But wid a grain of salt.
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years,But who calls dat livin’When no gal’ll furnish inTo no man what’s nine hundred years?
I’m preachin’ dis sermon to show,It ain’t nessa ain’t nessa,ain’t nessa ain’t nessa,Ain’t necessarily so.
Life is bunco.
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