what is the greatest religious song?

[backwoodsbob]

lets see them..here's my vote

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[loli phabay]

1. ave maria

[lunatica]

3. I was going to say that

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[derby378]

7. I've loved Stevie Wonder's version ever since I was a kid

It always gets me choked up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. The other famous Ave Maria

Melody by composer Charles Gounod.

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[Crabby Appleton]

15. I like this version

[RedStateLiberal]

2. My fav is Dear God by XTC

Obviously, I'm not very religious.

[Arugula Latte]

47. Good one!

Dear God, hope you got the letter, and...
I pray you can make it better down here.
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image, see
Them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
Enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you

Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
Loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
In the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
I can't believe in you

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
Mankind after we made you? And the devil too!

Dear God, don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on
A lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you
Should take a look, and all the people that you made in your
Image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and
So do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in

I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
Devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always
Letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you
Drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the
Whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that
Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
And if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon
My sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in

It's you....

[rug]

4. Panis Angelicus is up there.

[Major Nikon]

5. Superstition - Stevie Wonder (1972)

[ZombieHorde]

6. ...

I am no feeble Christ, not me. He hangs in glib delight upon his cross, above my body. Christ forgive.... FORGIVE? I vomit for you Jesu. Shit forgive. Down now from your cross. Down now from your papal heights, from that churlish suicide, petulant child. Down from those pious heights, royal flag bearer, goat, billy. I vomit for you. Forgive? Shit he forgives! He hangs in crucified delight nailed to the extend of his vision, his cross, his manhood, violence, guilt, sin. He would nail my body upon his cross, suicide visionary, death reveller, rake, rapist, lifefucker, Jesu, earthmover, Christus, gravedigger.

You dug the pits of Auschwitz, the soil of Treblinka is your guilt, your sin, master, master of gore, enigma. You carry the standard of your oppression. Enola is your gaiety. The bodies of Hiroshima are your delight ...the nails are your only trinity, hold them in your corpsey gracelessness, the image I have had to suffer. The cross is the virgin body of womenhood that you defile. You nail yourself to your own sin. Lamearse Jesus calls me sister, there are no words for my contempt, every woman is a cross in is filthy theology, in his arrogant delight. He turns his back upon me in his fear, he dare not face me. Fearfucker. Share nothing you Christ, sterile, impotent, fucklove prophet of death. You are the ultimate pornography, in your cuntfear, cockfear, manfear, womanfear, unfair, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare, warfare.

JESUS DIED FOR HIS OWN SINS, NOT MINE.

[NYC_SKP]

8. "Are you ready for some Football"

Hank Asshole Junior, IIRC

[annabanana]

10. Spirit in the Sky!

[Tom Ripley]

16. +1,000,000

[RebelOne]

50. You beat me to it. That is my favorite. n/t

[Odin2005]

55. That song makes me laugh every time I hear it!

[annabanana]

11. Jose Feliciano - Dos Cruces

[zen_bohemian]

12. agreed: Losing My Religion -Rem with a nod to

Johnny Cash-When the Man Comes Around ( I think that is what it is called) I don't know how to post a video...

[ohiosmith]

13. Amazing Grace!

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[El Supremo]

14. I like this one:

[mrmpa]

17. A very good one "Farther Along" sung by Dolly Parton. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris

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[Glorfindel]

36. It's a beautiful song, but Dolly didn't write it

We used to sing it in church when I was a boy in the 1950's. Here's some info:

http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Farther_Along/

But this is the best version I've ever heard. Thank you for posting it!

[mrmpa]

39. Thanks, for the correction...........

I thought I read that she did. I had never heard it before. I attended catholic mass when I was a kid, then folk masses in my teens, so there are many hymns I am totally unaware of.

[Denninmi]

18. I've heard that song hundreds, probably thousands of times.

I've never seen the video. Kind of weird, but interesting. I wish I got more of the symbolism. I could only pick up the basic stuff like Adam's rib.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. "Dio Vi Salvi Regina"

meaning "God Save You, Queen", referring to Mary. It's also the national anthem of the island of Corsica, the land of my ancestors.

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[MiddleFingerMom]

20. Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" as done by Jeff Buckley.

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[progressivebydesign]

28. Love this KD Lang version, too.

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[EvolveOrConvolve]

41. Amazing!

The passion in kd lang's version is amazing. Love it!

[jmowreader]

21. The Hand of the Almighty, by John R. Butler

[sadbear]

22. Morning has Broken -- Cat Stevens

[WhoIsNumberNone]

23. I'm torn

[HarveyDarkey]

24. Neon Bible

[mucifer]

25. It's the High Holidays soon. I vote for Kol Nidrei

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[cliffordu]

26. Jesu, joy of man's desire.

[ThoughtCriminal]

27. Beethoven's Ode to Joy

[SOteric]

29. Three Selections

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[Kali]

30. I'm not religious and this isn't exactly a song,

but I like it better than bells or choirs

lots of versions out there, this has a sampling of music at the end

[rug]

33. The chant is universal.

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Yeah, the last one has bells and choir monks. Tough.

[Tabasco_Dave]

31. Chicago - (I've Been) Searchin' So Long

I consider this more of a spiritual song than religious.

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[retread]

32. One of my favorite.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

34. The Hallelujah Chorus and Jesus Christ Superstar

[hobbit709]

35. Ballad Of The Chrome Nun

Look in the mirror you're lookin' guilty
Did the devil just give you the nod
You may be thinking you're funny lookin'
Well you're right that's right you're plenty odd
But think about it think about it
If you were funny enough
You could play great god

And I would fall down on my knees to you
Fall down flat on my face
I don't have to ask you where you're going
I just sit here laughing & I watch the race

Nobody needs to baptize me
Anytime I laugh I got religion
Cross my forehead cross my knees
I'll take any good sign I'm a clay pigeon
Nobody needs to baptize me
Anytime I laugh I got religion
And I fall down on my knees to you
I fall down flat on my face

[Honeycombe8]

37. Amazing Grace.

[Doc_Technical]

38. Lay Down by The Strawbs

[Iggo]

40. Ave Maria will always be my favorite.

But I like a ton of religious music. A lot of it was written by the best composers in history, and the true believers sing it with such passion, it's hard not to like.

[Bertha Venation]

42. It Is Well With My Soul

when peace, like a river, attendeth my way
when sorrows like sea billows roll
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say
"It is well! It is well with my soul."

Was my mother's favorite hymn.

[RedSpartan]

43. Until The End Of The World -- U2

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. I like this one, too - "Oh Happy Day"

[frogmarch]

45. La Grace du Ciel

I'm an atheist, but this is beautiful.

[LWolf]

46. I don't do "greatest," but I have a few favorites:

Morning Has Broken

Simple Gifts

Songs From The Woods

Here Comes The Sun

Jesus is Just Alright

Don't Worry, Be Happy

[Arugula Latte]

48. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

[Callalily]

49. One of my favorites . . .

The Lord's Prayer sung by Barbara Streisand

[intaglio]

51. No contest

[ddavis195600]

52. amazing grace

[emilyg]

53. Yes.

[Odin2005]

54. Amazing Grace, composed by a slave-trader turned Abolitionist.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

56. So much beautiful music.

I'm not religious, but church music composed during the Renaissance is some of the most gorgeous stuff out there. I belong to a choir that performs early music, and last winter we did this one:

[Art_from_Ark]

57. George Frederick Handel: Overture to Messiah

And a nominee for one of the oddest ones:
J.S.Bach: Ich freue mich auf meinem Tod ("I will be happy to die&quot

[kwolf68]

58. Easy

LIVE's song "What Are We Fighting For" is a perfect religious song about peace!!!!!!!!!