In this post, I’ll be listing the 40 atheist songs that I’ve judged to be the best, based on several factors including cleverness and relevance to the topic.
When I first started searching for atheist music, I found that a lot of the lists people have made were full of songs that really had little to nothing to do with atheism, which made it hard to find actual atheist songs. A song isn’t an atheist song just because it’s about science. A song isn’t necessarily an atheist song even if it mentions atheism or has a vaguely anti-religious sounding title.
In my list, I am only including songs that actually have lyrics that (favorably) discuss atheism (or closely related topics such as criticism of religion, arguments for and against the existence of God, and rejection of supernatural beliefs). I may occasionally include a song that isn’t exactly an atheist song if it’s close enough to being one, and it’s good enough in other ways to make up for the slight lack of relevance. But the further a song is from really being an atheist song, the less likely it is to make it onto this list.
- “Brains” by Greydon Square
- “A Rational Response” by Greydon Square
- “Thank You God” by Tim Minchin
- “Stockholm Syndrome” by Greydon Square
- “Freethinker Blues” by Dan Barker
- “Beware of Dogma” by Dan Barker
- “You Can’t Win with Original Sin” by Dan Barker
- “Still a Lie” by Godless Wonder (cover by Daniel Doscher)
- “The Sound of Science“
- “Bad Things Happen” by Baba Brinkman
- “Ballad of the Non-Believer” by Tombstone da Deadman
- “Worship Me” by Johnny Hoax
- “The Good Book” by Tim Minchin
- “2010 A.D.” by Greydon Square (featuring Syqnys and TaskRok)
- “Don’t Find Faith With The Fairies” by Nick Gisburne
- “Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud” by Epic Rap Battles of History
- “Poison” by Tombstone da Deadman
- “The CPT Theorem” by Greydon Square
- “Naturalizm” by Baba Brinkman (featuring Syqnys)
- “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” by Dan Barker
- “The Preacher and the Skeptic” by Casual Entropy
- “End of Faith” by Zero Days
- “As an Artist” by Greydon Square
- “Silence Us” by Tombstone da Deadman
- “Religion is Just a Con-Trick” by Nick Gisburne (cover by Traxx 01)
- “Sunday in Reality” by Cynthia Carle
- “Manifesto” by Tombstone da Deadman
- “Dear God” by XTC
- “Angels” by Cynthia Carle
- “I Don’t Believe in Fairies” by Shelley Segal
- “The Word of God” by Catherine Faber (cover by Kathy Mar)
- “I’d Rather Be Free” by Young Inc
- “Saved” by Shelley Segal
- “Oh Lord” by Aurelio Voltaire
- “Beyond Reason” by Tombstone da Deadman
- “Keep It to Yourself” by Young Inc
- “Molotov” by Greydon Square
- “Life is Good” by Dan Barker
- “Credulous Minds” by Breaking Bad
- “The Dream” by Greydon Square
Do you know any more atheist songs that you think should be included in the top 40? Leave a comment below and let me know, and if I think your suggestions are good enough, I’ll update the list.
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