Relating to Music: Can An Atheist Love Religious Music?

July 11, 2012 in Music, Religion

Can an Atheist love religious music? Well, looking through my iTunes collection, there are 29 songs with the words “Jesus” in them, although one of those is “Jesus Penis” by The DC3, and another one is “The Jesus Stag Night Club” by Babybird. Searching for “God” gives me over 100 songs, but two of them (“God” by John Lennon and “Dear God” by XTC) are kind of about atheism, so they probably don’t count. Searching for “heaven” also gives me over 100 songs, but “Heaven’s In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac” isn’t a very spiritual song either. Nevertheless, despite [...]