If religious people like GOSPEL music,

[clydefrand]

what would be the equivalent music for atheist?

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I dunno -

What's the punch line!

I only like gospel music because it reminds me of my dad making fried green tomatoes and barbecuing and singing it on Sunday afternoons.

[Lost_Count]

2. Everything else...

[SecularMotion]

13. +1

Except Christian Rock.



I'm not sure if religious people who like Gospel Music even like Christian Rock.

[Lint Head]

3. Anti Gospel Music?

[johnp3907]

4. "Athiests have Rock and Roll"

[Luminous Animal]

5. A person can appreciate the music without being a believer.

[Lars39]

6. Everything else.

I know you meant this as a joke, but I know quite a few people who will not listen to anything but Christian music.

[snooper2]

7. Looks like a good place to post this, CHRISTIAN MUSIC HALL OF SHAME

[Wait Wut]

8. I'm not a religious person nor an atheist.

But, I love Gospel. I also like blues, (early) jazz, metal, rock, some rap/hip hop, some techno, etc.

[wandy]

9. Whoa! Who says ya gots to be religous to get into to some of that stuff.............

My arrangement be a bit different from this critter's, but this should give you the general idea.

And this lad done just fine!

[TlalocW]

10. Modern Country

Because it doesn't have any soul.

Just a joke - don't be mad at me Atheists. Modern country music lovers can be, but let me just say this about your music preferences... They're wrong.

TlalocW

[kentauros]

11. If I had to listen to country, it would be this station:

Boot Liquor (somafm.com)

[longship]

12. I love top forty. With Bach, Mozart and over 38 others.

Yup. Bach wrote a lot of religious music, over 200 cantatas, some passion plays -- my favorite of them is the Matthew Passion -- but I adore Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations. It is one of my desert island disks.

And Mozart. I like opera a lot, and nobody did it better than Wolfgang. Another desert island disk, Carlo Maria Giulini's recording of Le Nozze di Figaro with a stellar cast and wonderfully recording. A fun, comedic romp. Lots of Mozart is just great.
Act I:

Another, Hildegard Von Bingen. Yup! It's religious. That doesn't matter since everybody was back then. (They dare not not be.) But she was a polymath and wrote some incredible music.

Brahms -- Ein Deutsches Requiem. A requiem written by a non-believer. Stunningly beautiful.

One does not have to listen to only secular music just because one is an atheist. Part of being a non-believer is understanding cultural heritage and its often historically religious underpinnings (back when religions could get away with it).

I have too many on my desert island disk list. Almost all of them are classical, many of them opera, and there are both religious and secular works.

[cemaphonic]

14. Gospel music.

Because music isn't religion. I'm not at all religious, and I love a lot of religious music that most believers have no interest in. And not just at the "sounds nice" level either. I always have a deep emotional reaction to Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. which is basically just the RCC Latin Mass in 6 part vocal harmony.

[Iggo]

15. Gospel music..

[Rex]

16. Song wrote by a computer?

nt.

[Brigid]

17. Did somebody say gospel music?

Hit it, Mahalia.