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[[File:Sanderson Jones.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[British atheism|British atheist]] Sanderson Jones is a founder of the Sunday Assembly atheist church movement.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/atheist-church-split_n_4550456.html Atheist Church Split: Sunday Assembly And Godless Revival's 'Denominational Chasm'], Huffington Post, 2014</ref> Atheist churches play some atheistic music. The music is not exclusively atheistic.]]
 
[[File:Sanderson Jones.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[British atheism|British atheist]] Sanderson Jones is a founder of the Sunday Assembly atheist church movement.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/atheist-church-split_n_4550456.html Atheist Church Split: Sunday Assembly And Godless Revival's 'Denominational Chasm'], Huffington Post, 2014</ref> Atheist churches play some atheistic music. The music is not exclusively atheistic.]]
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'''Atheist music''' is music that has been written to express [[Atheism|atheist]] ideology or atheist religious concepts (see: [[Atheism is a religion|Atheism is a secular religion]]).
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'''Atheist music''' is [[music]] that has been written to express [[Atheism|atheist]] ideology or atheist religious concepts (see: [[Atheism is a religion|Atheism is a secular religion]]).
    
Despite atheism existing for thousands of years and predating [[Christianity]], there is a small proportion of music compared to religious music. For example, [[Wikipedia]], which was founded by an atheist and agnostic, has no article on "Atheist music", but Wikipedia does have an article on [[Christian music]].  The comedian Steve Martin wrote a satirical song entitled "“Atheists Don't Have No Songs”.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU Steve Martin - Atheists Don't Have No Songs (Live on Letterman 03-16-2011)]</ref> There are no atheist radio stations dedicated to playing atheist songs.  In addition, although there are full-time Christian musicians who support themselves by playing for churches (or other Christian audiences) and through the sales of their music, there are no full-time atheist musicians who devote themselves to playing atheist music.  
 
Despite atheism existing for thousands of years and predating [[Christianity]], there is a small proportion of music compared to religious music. For example, [[Wikipedia]], which was founded by an atheist and agnostic, has no article on "Atheist music", but Wikipedia does have an article on [[Christian music]].  The comedian Steve Martin wrote a satirical song entitled "“Atheists Don't Have No Songs”.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU Steve Martin - Atheists Don't Have No Songs (Live on Letterman 03-16-2011)]</ref> There are no atheist radio stations dedicated to playing atheist songs.  In addition, although there are full-time Christian musicians who support themselves by playing for churches (or other Christian audiences) and through the sales of their music, there are no full-time atheist musicians who devote themselves to playing atheist music.  
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