scour envision,arrives:…

If you’ve read this week’s Carnival of the Godless you’ve already seen this, but I felt PZ Myers’ comments deserved to be highlighted. In preparing this edition of the CotG, PZ wanted to:
…balance the yin and yang of atheism:

Frank Zappa - Album: “You Are What You Is” (1981),
excerpts from song “Dumb All Over”.

Religious fanatics on the air every night.
Sayin’ the Bible tells the story, makes the details sound real gory
‘Bout what to do if the geeks over there…
don’t believe in the book we got over here

Religious fanatics can make it be all gone
(I mean it won’t blow up ‘N disappear.
It’ll just look ugly for a thousand years…)

You can’t run a country by a book of religion.
Not by a heap, or a lump, or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules, of ancient date,
designed to make you all feel great
While you fold, spindle and mutilate
those unbelievers from a neighboring state

The Good Book says: “It gotta be that way!”
But their book says:
“REVENGE THE CRUSADES… with whips ‘n chains ‘N hand grenades…”

It says in the book: “Burn ‘n destroy…
‘n repent… ‘n redeem… ‘n revenge… ‘n deploy… ‘n rumble thee forth!
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
‘Cause they don’t go for what’s in the book ‘n that makes ‘em BAD.
So verily we must choppeth them up and stompeth them down!
Or rent a nice French bomb to poof them out of existence
While leaving their real estate just where we need it to use again
For temples in which to praise OUR GOD!!
(”Cause he can really take care of business!”)

And when his humble TV servant with humble white hair and humble glasses
And a nice brown suit and maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls…
Tells us our God says, “It’s okay to do this stuff!”
Then we gotta do it, ’cause if we don’t do it, we ain’t goin’ up to hebbin!
(Depending on which book you’re using at the time…Can’t use theirs…
it don’t work …it’s all lies…Gotta use mine…)

Hey, we can’t really be dumb if we’re just following God’s Orders!
Hey, let’s get serious… God knows what he’s doin’…
He wrote this book here and the book says:
“He made us all to be just like Him”,
So… If we’re dumb… Then God is Dumb…
(An’ maybe even a little ugly on the side)

Pink Floyd - Album “Animals” (1977), excerpts from song “Sheep”
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie, Through pastures green
He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives, He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo he hath great power and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection and great dedication,
Master the art of karate
Lo we shall rise up and then we’ll make the buggers eyes water.

Here we are
In a world of corruption
Human nature is
Of violent Breed
Who cares if there;s no tomorrow
When I die for my future’s
Laid out for me
Can’t you see?
Rise above the lies
Morals on a backwards globe
A sin to you
For me it’s hope.

It’s my life and provision
Black or white
Some pay to pray
You question why they
Act this way
It’s their fucking decision

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy

I know what’s right or wrong
And my belief is stronger
Than your advice
People, they go to war
Because religion gives them
Reason to fight
Sacrifice, die for pride
A group that caters
No one’s fees
Or synthetic deities
Is where I belong
My stand is the human race
Without a label or a face
So they can lick my sack

No more judgement day
Only tranquility
Peace signs, protest lines
Mean nothing to me

Honesty born in me
Heresy

There’s a star in the West. I’m so proud of Kanye
What we were all thinking is what he had the balls to say
Too long we’ve been ignoring the evidence
Believing what makes us feel good as if the facts are irrelevant
If it looks like he doesn’t care, it feels like he doesn’t notice
He doesn’t show us that he cares, relying on him is hopeless
How many people have been on the brink of death or crossed-over?
How many lucky ones are now left to be homeless?
Cut-skin in sewage-filled waters, shit and corpses, nothing ate
Robbing and rape, water blocking escape
Is it the poor that he hates, blacks or Southerners?
Or is it that he doesn’t give a fuck about none of us?
Why was nothing done to prevent this disaster?
Why was he so slow to help people after?
Why did the media and hip-hop have to kick-start the effort?
The fact that people don’t ask these questions leaves me breathless

Fuck George Bush and fuck all the preachers
God does not care about black people
Won’t take blame, and His fans help Him weasel
But God clearly doesn’t care about people

He saw it coming. Try and claim he didn’t.
He let it come although he saw the flooding
He saw what would come, for it was written clearly
He did nothing and now people have lost family they loved dearly
Maybe it was a part of his plan like Noah’s flood
Maybe the people of N.O. are N.O. good
Do they pollute humanity and this is his cleansing?
Will he pass the buck and only claim he did the good things?
Liberating his chosen people. Not all men are equal
In his eyes we’re all disposable.
Why does he care more about the life of a foetus
Than the poor adult people praying to Jesus
For someone to help? What kind of a man, this?
Then twist his story: expert propagandist
And he is supposed to be the one to watch over us
I saw more effort to help come from Hov and Puff

Fuck George Bush and fuck all the preachers
God does not care about black people
Won’t take blame, and His fans help Him weasel
But God clearly doesn’t care about people

Fuck your prayers. Fuck pushing your agenda on us.
You can practice your magic. We don’t give a fuck
But leave us to our own devices if you can’t help us
Looks like this hurricane shit is burning bush
About time we realised and opened our eyes
What we think is to the good is mostly lies
Kanye is a bright spark with guts to go around
But he’s the first to admit his contradictions abound
His comments on the president were needed and due
But Bush is just asking “What Would Jesus Do?”
Well we have our answer, don’t we?
What Would Jesus Do? Absolutely nothing
What did science do? Predicted the demise of the barriers
What did Bush do? Killed many more warriors
Swept science and sense under the rug where he liked them
Understand why I’m being impolite then?