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** "Blasphemous Rumors" is about a woman whose daughter survives a suicide attempt and, after recovering and finding a love of life, is hit by a car and left on life support (eventually dying) and how the singer thinks "God's got a sick sense of humor."

* Music/SteveTaylor built much of his career on tearing down corrupt televangelists in his lyrics during the 1980s, when they were still popular within the church. This was a pretty controversial stand for him to take at the time, being a Christian himself.

* NOFX's ''Idiots Are Taking Over'' is clearly a Type 1. It derides America in general, but specifically cites the nation's decline being due to "faith... being fancied over reason," resulting in "God-fearing pregnant nationalists" propagating "how-to-get-ahead religions."

** "Blasphemous Rumors" is about a woman who loses both her daughters, one to a suicide attempt and another to a car, and how the singer thinks "God's got a sick sense of humor."

* Music/{{Rush}} has several songs that protest organized religion and superstitions without being atheistic. "Freewill" protests the concepts of predestination and astrology. "Totem" pokes fun at various practices of various organized religions. Compare with "Prime Mover", which is a Deist song that mentions something (likely someone) behind the scenes in the universe (setting clouds in motion) while allowing humans autonomy.

* Music/{{Rush}} has [=BU2B=] which is protesting spiritual leaders shoving down specific dogmas down people's throats- not so much belief in a higher power.

ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, this is a song that attacks religion or religious figures. There are multiple versions of this trope, though they often overlap:

* Music/TheFall's "Hey Luciani" is an odd(ish) example, as you'd expect, being pro-John Paul I and accusing the Church of being corrupt and killing him off.

* Much of Music/ArchEnemy's output can be found here.

* Music/CrystalCastles' "Wrath Of God." The deliberate distortion of Alice's vocals makes this difficult to classify, but the lyrics that can be deciphered indicate a Type 2.

And when I die, I expect to find Him laughing''\\

** "Blasphemous Rumors"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw Jesus He Knows Me]] by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} is about televangelists. The song is critical of televangelists by showing off their extravagant lifestyles, their concern with earning money more than preaching the word of God, and their tendency to not practice what they preach.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw Jesus He Knows Me]] by Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, is about televangelists, their extravagant lifestyles and their tendency to not practice what they preach.

* Music/FranzFerdinand gives us the interesting example of "The Fallen", which is actually addressed to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus Christ}}; he's apparently back and the speaker's happy to see him. As [[TheFaceOfTheBand Alex Kapranos]] (who read Theology at the University of Glasgow for a year) would have it, JesusWasWayCool, and were he alive to day, would be hanging with the poor and downtrodden, and not the self-declared Christians drinking champagne and riding in limousines. (In other words, [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche the last Christian died on the Cross]], and [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Christ is so unlike the Christians]]).

* "Turtles All the Way Down" by Sturgill Simpson is a downplayed example. The song is mainly about how the singer has had several religious and drug-related experiences, and concluded that fighting over beliefs is pointless ("So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes / Or fairy tales of blood and wine / It's turtles all the way down the line /So to each their own til' we go home").

* "Weak Fantasy" by Music/Nightwish, mostly falls into this category- being inspired by the writings of UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins, it hits a lot of points, including accusations of factual implausibility, childhood indoctrination, and general totalitarianism.