Contra Steve Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU there are songs for the atheist. Not many. You have to come up with a dozen contemporary songs to equal Mozart’s Requiem and that’s just based on time. But some atheist songs do exist. In March of 2019 I did this search “Music for atheists humanists” in YouTube and got one playlist with 300 songs and another with 500.
My list of favorites will be a lot shorter. Here are my top 10 and I gave myself the rule to only list one song per artist.
- God Is Not Great – George Hrab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFAmu9NxgBI
- Saved – Shelley Segal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-h_jNiSczw
- What If No One’s Watching – Ani DeFranco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYiI3qpmASw
- Santa Is an Atheist – Casey McKinnon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjSkZnCHS1U
- Thank You God – Tim Minchin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeWPScnolo
- Jesus Was an Atheist – Rick Springfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KuUxmLL1hM
- Heaven for Everyone – Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KUpXtTYQk
- I Ain’t Afraid – Holly Near https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEJx8cYnUuE
- Letting Go of God – Jill Sobule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oJTONxgj4
- Hard Believer – First Aid Kit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDG8xqz7BIk
More atheist song ideas are here:
https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/culture/atheists-do-got-songslots-of-em
