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English grindcore band Napalm Death addressed the negative side of religion with their 2006 concept album 'Smear Campaign'. Singer Mark 'Barney' Greenway justified the album by accusing religion of being the cause of all the woes in the world, telling The Herald Dispatch: "Going back thousands of years, religion has been a widely used means of controling the population. Our world is governed in the highest echelons by religion, and what I wanted to say was that it is causing all of this grief in the world... We should not look through an ethereal third party that is unsubstantiated. Why not trust ourselves?"
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- What about The Stranglers and their 1981 album Themeninblack which had the prefix of The Gospel According to... This album dealt with the concept that God is an extra terrestrial being and that therefore all religons are built on falsehood. The cover featured Da Vinci's The Last Supper as a gatefold sleeve and on it Judas Iscariot had been replaced by a Maninblack.
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- Praise be to Dawkins! Only say the word and Hitchens will be there!
- It seems like RUSH has promoted rational thought and a bent against supernaturalism. They've never said they don't believe, outright; but, they seem very intelligent and rational.
- RUSH has said that they don't believe, both in interviews, and most recently and strongly on their album "Snakes and Arrows". Check out the song "Faithless", which, as it promises, is about not believing.
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