Song: Take Me to Church Artist: Hozier Claim to Badassery: Humanist, anti-church lyrics galore--plus a poignant video about the religious response to gay love.
Best Lines:
My church offers no absolution
She tells me, 'Worship in the bedroom'
The only heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you
Hozier
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Song: PerfectArtist: Robert DeLongClaim to Badassery: Beautiful, inspiring anti-religion lyrics in a powerful electronic song.
Best Lines:
I climbed outside of God's house
and found that the absence was perfect
Robert DeLong
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Song: Casimir Pulaski DayArtist: Sufjan Stevens Claim to Badassery: Subtlety being the name of Sufjan Stevens' game, this song is subtlely irreverent and anti-religion. But...not too subtle. Listen to the words:
Best Lines:
All the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window
All the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes
Sufjan Stevens
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Song: Hard On For JesusArtist: The Dandy Warhols Claim to Badassery: Besides being from Portland? (okay maybe I'm biased.) Irreverent excellency, my friends, and making fun of Christian songs that sound like love songs.
Best Lines:
Oh yeah, Jesus (Oh yeah, Jesus)
You Got me Going (Got Me Going) And I know just like I know
No way of knowin' (no way of knowin')
I gotta have faith (gotta have faith)
I gotta believe (gotta believe)
That the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings
Come and set me free (come set me free)
Dandy Warhols
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Song: FangsArtist: Man Man Claim to Badassery: At first I thought it was about vampires, and it kind of is...but this song is distinctively anti-religion, and in a super gorgeous and dark way.
Best Lines:
Raised and braised on mysticism
Like Jesus flesh and cataclysmic
Punishment for following
The hunger her pleasure creates
Man Man
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Song: SacrilegeArtist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Claim to Badassery: Anti-religion, featuring a full Southern Baptist-style choir and a video about "witch"-burning for adultery/fornication.
Best Lines:
Fallen for a guy,
Fell down from the sky
Halo round his head
Feathers in our bed
In our bed, in our bed
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Song: Chocolate JesusArtist: Tom Waits Claim to Badassery: We're talking about the man who's "living on dreams and train smoke" a.k.a. the manliest, grittiest man in existence. Tom Waits fucks your mom, knocks back a gin and vermouth, builds a barn, kills a man in New Orleans, gets a tattoo, wrestles a wolf and then smokes a cigar pensively in a dusty shipyard all in a normal afternoon. And he's flipping off Jesus the whole time.
Best Lines:
I fall on my knees every Sunday
At Zerelda Lee's candy storeWell it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied
Tom Waits (also known as The Sexiest Manliest MoFo To Ever Grace The Planet [by me])
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