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Following a Christian upbringing in Arkansas, the Gossip's Beth Ditto explains that her younger years were spent worrying about the consequences of being lesbian. She told the Sunday Times in 2007: "I loved the sound of women's voices, not those of guys. I would pray because I didn't want to go to hell." The singer proclaims that at the age of 19, atheism saved her from her god-fearing ways: "I realised that every 2,000 years, there's a religion that happens to rule, and Christianity is just today's religion."

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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 The cover featured Da Vinci's The Last Supper as a gatefold sleeve and on it Judas Iscariot had been replaced by a Maninblack.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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