• Monday Morning Musical Meme – Rise Up! Rise Up! (REPOST)

    Apparently this YouTube account exists solely for the purpose of allowing you to listen to just this one song. Totally worth it. Lyrics to follow:

    dear preacher, thanks for making time for me today
    hope you don't mind if i hide behind the curtain
    it's been fifteen years since my last confession
    by your good book's standards, i've sinned like a champion
    but that book seems a tad bit out-dated
    please forgive me, for questioning divinity
    it's an ugly job, but i think i'm up for it
    i'm not saying who's right
    i'm just saying there's more than one way
    to skin a religion
    there's more than one way
    to explain our existence
    reverend, sir, i don't want to seem malevolent
    my teenage angst is far behind me
    but father, certainly it's troubling to see
    all these people kneeling, instead of dealing
    with the fact that we are all we have
    so, rise up! rise up!
    there's no one to worship!
    but plenty of life to lose!
    i'm not saying "let's burn down the church"
    but do you want to hear my confession?
    it's my greatest sin..
    okay, here it is:
    i wasted half my life on the thought that i'd live forever!
    i wasn't raised, to seize the day, but to work and worship
    'cause "he that liveth and believeth" supposedly never dies
    rise up! rise up!
    and live a full life!
    'cause when it's over, it's done
    so rise up! rise up!
    dance and scream and love!

    Category: Freethought in Popular CultureMusical Memes

    Article by: Damion Reinhardt

    Former fundie finds freethought fairly fab.