It must be the season. The godless are popping up all over.
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Strange Doctrines is back after a hiatus. I suspect he was off in mystic Tibet studying the rituals of Dormammu.
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Go say hello to the Hooping Humanist. He's even got a picture of me!
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I don't know if we want to encourage this: atheists are also busting out in song. The Midwest Humanist channels Monty Python.
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You can turn your godless musical talents into fame and glory: Q Transmissions is running a musical contest. They've already adapted some lyrics from Miss Prism, which you can listen to. If you must.
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... very happy you alluded to [the Dread] Dormammu. What a guy! If I could have one superpower, it'd definitely be the Dreaded D's ability to banish folks to Limbo.
I mean, just to be able to say something like "Silence! I banish you all to Limbo!"
What a beautiful thing.
... the rituals of Dormammu.
I first read that as Dormouseu and thought "cool, a Dormice cult in Tibet!"
My delusions are easily shattered... sniff
I submit the following words from John Prine:
I heard Allah and Buddah
singing at the Savior's feast.
And up in the sky an Arabian Rabbi
fed Quaker Oats to a Priest.
Pretty Good, Not Bad, they can't complain
Cause actually all them God's are about the same.
Enjoy.
'By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, I dispatch you Dormammu!'
- S. Strange (MD)
Thank you for linking to us PZ. It's much appreciated.
As always PZ, you rock. Thanks so much for the mention.
Unfortunately, my "godless musical talents" are more akin to talentless musical talents.
However, like PZ, my interpretive dance skillz are legion.
It's somehow fittingly ironic that I'd catch your post just after exiting my regular church gig. (It's a don't ask, don't tell thing.)
Anyway, much obliged for the linkage, PZ.
I chuckled at the Strange-Dormammu comment. Good to know I'm not the only one on here with history as a comic-reading geek.
Oh, the scansion. The poor, poor scansion.
It seems to me that, at least in the first couple of verses, the lines are a syllable short. (I didn't check any further.)
I am the ve-ry mod-el of a mod-ern Ma-jor-Gen-er-al
I've in-for-ma-tion ve-ge-ta-ble, an-i-mal, and min-er-al
I don't be-lieve in Jah-weh, Budd-ha, Gan-esh, Zeus or Al-lah, and
I don't be-lieve in Lim-bo, Ha-des, Hea-ven or Val-hal-la (beat)
The second verse (the one starting "I've got no time for Odin...") is probably the worst. Could someone point out how the scansion is supposed to work on that one?
Ah, Dr. Strange. My favorite comic book character-- but my fave villain from that was Nightmare, if only b ecause the artists gave us such wonderful backgrounds.
Thanks for the shout out, PZ!
You don't know if we should encourage atheists breaking out into song? I disagree ... let's show the religious that we're NOT a bunch of sad neurotics!
Now that infectious meme is going to be running through my head: "I'm an atheist, and I'm okay ..." (LOL)