Atheist-Christian Debates

21: "Calling All You Angels"

This section is only for people who have actually heard this song. I'd be amazed if you haven't - it would indicate that you didn't listen to any popular radio station within the last couple years. But this is a secular song, overly pessimistic and dire, and I was so annoyed by it that I wrote several paragraphs on it to my agnostic correspondent.

"Here is part of a song lyric you would agree with:
`I don't need no one to tell me about heaven, I look at my daughter and I believe/I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth/I can see the sunset...'
Not good enough for me. I prefer this one:
`I need a sign to let me know you're here/I want a reason for the way things have to be...While children have to play inside so they don't disappear/And private eyes solve marriage lies, cause we don't talk (sic)too clear/In a world where all we want is all we want...
That guy has my attitude."

Later, the same atheist presents a story about a Buddhist monk who hits a man and says, "That is hell," then hugs him or does something nice to him and says, "this is heaven." I find this to be extremely self - contradictory. But since what song you like is all a matter of preference, how about this one?

• I got a sign that shows me that God's here
• His name is Jesus and he's with me everywhere
• I got a sign that things are going to look up
• My Lord will come back the same way he went up
• When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my head
• I'll still be strong in Jesus, I have faith in what he said
• I got a sign, Christ died and rose for me
• So that if I believe I'll live with him eternally
• I got a reason to worship him as Lord
• He vanquished all our sin forevermore
• And I have Jesus as my savior
• I have Jesus as my savior
• When children play with deadly beasts and they no longer kill
• You'll know that Jesus has set foot on Zion's holy hill
• When Christians cry `cause martyrs die
• until that day when we see Christ
• At judgement day bringing all the dead saints back to life
• I have Jesus as my savior
• Jesus as my savior

• I got a sign that shows me that God's here
• His name is Jesus and he's with me everywhere
• I got a sign that things are going to look up
• My Lord will come back the same way he went up
• When life is rough and I don't feel like I have any friends
• My savior still is there with me and'll be there to the end
• (Alternate: When people die and skeptics try to make us lose our way, I still call on my savior's name to get me through the day)
• And when we arise in paradise and see him face to face,
• We'll all be thankful we believed in Jesus' saving grace
• I got a sign, Christ died and rose for me
• So that if I believe I'll live with him eternally
• I got a reason to worship him as Lord
• He vanquished all our sin forevermore
• And I still believe in Jesus
• I still believe in Jesus
• When children play with deadly beasts and they no longer kill
• You'll know that Jesus has set foot on Zion's holy hill
• When Christians cry `cause martyrs die
• until that day when we see Christ
• At judgement day bringing all the dead saints back to life
• And I still believe in Jesus
• I still believe in Jesus

"Calling all you angels happened to be the very first one on the music tape I played while reinstalling Win98. The installation went rather well,, maybe you are wrong about that song!"

Sure it went well. Lucifer wants you to like him! I'm sure that if you were pursuing godly matters, instead of trying to improve your material possessions, it would have worked just the opposite.