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someguyfromcanada  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What makes an atheist love religious music?

I generally do not like religious music but am in no way offended if someone mentions Jesus or whatever. Sometimes I just can't help myself because the music is so good.

I have no idea what a lot of the songs I listen to are about lyrically. Something like Hollaback Girl I had no idea what it was about for years. And some songs just contain nonsense lyrics, but I like a lot of those too.

A few months ago I saw Yolanda Adams on the Tonight Show and her energy and the band and arrangement blew me away. Even though this is evangelical to the max, sometimes to me the lyrics don't matter. Just like when I listen to Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden, except I do not believe some of those bands actually believe their lyrics and are just saying it for fun.

I believe I have mentioned all of these songs before but I also like things like ZZ Tops' Jesus Just Left Chicago or the Doobie Brothers' Jesus Is Just Alright .

I also really like klezmer music but don't really know how religious the lyrics are since I don't speak Yiddish. :)