CONTROVERSIAL!! Xtc Reaction - "DEAR GOD" | NU METAL FAN REACTS |

[@ericmcdonough8193]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@GuyInnagorillasuit]

I don't have any kind of religious trauma in my past, but after 20+ years this song gets to me every time it switches back to the child's voice. Every. Single. Time.

[@stevemadrid6522]

As the one heathen in my family, I approve this video.

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Great reaction to an amazing song from an amazing band. XTC has produced a massive amount of brilliant songs across every topic imaginable. Well-worth checking out. They go loud (No Thugs In Our House, Complicated Game) to softly melodic (Harvest Festival, Grass) and everything in between. Cheers!

[@infin8reactions]

Awesome John, I shall do more 😁👌

[@bingewatcherfanatic996]

@@infin8reactions react melt the gun from xtc

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

I was 12 when I first heard this song and I was just getting out of a Born-Again Christian influence from family. When I saw this video for the first time, I knew this would be my band and 30 odd years later, they still are....

[@infin8reactions]

Awesome mate, sticking with the music you like is what it's about 😁

[@OnceWasRStrathfield]

@@infin8reactions with XTC, there's more I've noticed as I've gotten older... I used to be into their early pop singles like ''This Is Pop''... and would ignore their latter albums. Now it's the other way around where I've grown into their latter albums. American Psycho's quote on Genesis can also apply to XTC (except that XTC got better).

[@theborg]

I'm a Born-Again Atheist.

[@HiddenCharmhome]

@@theborg frankly mr shankly, so am I

[@andyf2837]

Used as a trailer for the film Spotlight which is about the catholic church in Boston. This was big in the American college scene

[@davidwoolbright3675]

XTC is a magnificent band!! Please do more!!

[@highdrogrizz]

I saw this video when I was around 9 and it led me down the path to Atheism.

[@erichloehr5992]

When this song came out it totally blew up what popular music was allowed to talk about, and it planted the seed that allowed me to eventually let go of the control this belief system had been force fed to me since a small child. Plus XTC is totally amazing.

[@AudiophileTubes]

A great book to read is 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins.

[@HiddenCharmhome]

Just such a brilliant song and equally brilliant video. The layers of meaning in the imagery allow lots of different takes

[@AN-ri6nc]

Now you get it! So refreshing. Thank you!

[@KevTheImpaler]

It's a superb song and a superb video. Andy Partridge always was the most thoughtful member of that band, and it was a heck of a band. Not just a great song, but a great video too.

[@RockDocNeal]

Hi Lee, great reaction. As an agnostic (a "recovered" Catholic), I love this song and it brings up some valid points and contradictions. I love the line "People fighting in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God". I've tormented my religious sister a couple times with this song. 😁

[@IceMetalPunk]

I love this song, though it came out before I was born. I kind of figured it wouldn't go over well in the US, especially in the 80s, so I looked it up, and... I was right. "The song's anti-religious message inspired some violent incidents. In Florida, a Panama City radio station received a bomb threat for playing the song, and in New York, a Binghamton High School student forced his school to play the song over its public-address system while holding a faculty member at knife-point... Partridge also received a plethora of hate mail, although all of it was from the US." How sad that people are raised from a young age to believe what they're told so hard that anyone who says, "Hey, maybe none of that is true" get met with "I'LL BOMB ANYONE WHO LETS YOU SAY THAT!"

[@jono.pom-downunder]

@ icemetalpunk, it just goes to show the fekin hypocrisy of Religion "say my God of peace is the best, or I'll kill ya"

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

Truth. And religions are for love and world peace (at least that's what they say) and they spread a lot of hate and division if you're not the same as them.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@V8AmericanMuscleCar *Everyone* thinks they're about love and world peace; that's more general than just religion. No one ever thinks what they're doing is wrong, immoral, cruel, or evil, or else they'd stop doing it. As the famous writing advice goes, "every villain is the hero of their own story".

[@erichloehr5992]

Even among us in the alternative and punk scene back then, this song strongly devided us. Many people stopped talking to each other based on how you reacted to this song from such a respected and beloved band.

[@jasontaverner391]

It starts and ends with a child, because the Books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all state that you must believe as a child. Stating finally "I don't believe in you", means the childlike innocence is gone.

[@kristimarriner7673]

Great song. Like the acoustical quality of it with the lyrics. Great reaction 👍🏻

[@daphned.7489]

Songs been around for some time. Not a topic that has been on the channel b4. Keeping convo's on IMR "fresh" "if you like"😂😂😂😂

[@kristimarriner7673]

@@daphned.7489 Exactly!

[@infin8reactions]

I am unfiltered and an open book lol, I will talk about anything don't worry 😂😂😂😂

[@infin8reactions]

Although.... I did talk about God in falling in reverse "drugs" video 😁👌

[@daphned.7489]

@@infin8reactions Ahhhhh, yes! It's all coming back to me now.

[@MJ-gv6pw]

"Did you make mankind after we made you?" or "Did you make man kind after we made you?" (as in, make man nicer)

[@infin8reactions]

Interesting insight

[@bazkeen]

Well that was different. Great lyrics. Found my self engrossed in that. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@daphned.7489]

😁👍

[@infin8reactions]

Edgy topic.... Love it!!

[@bazkeen]

@@infin8reactions Same here👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@daphned.7489]

@@infin8reactions Have to admit that I was kind of apprehensive with this one. Religion is a tough topic. Very personal.

[@winnywin]

@@daphned.7489 I should be personal - but many theists want to change social policy so it conforms to their holy book. We must fight their bigotry whenever and wherever it shows up. Love.

[@lewisb85]

They also did a song about false prophets called "the ballad of peter pumpkinhead".

[@davidparis4787]

If you like this song, Lee, you may want to give XTC's "Your Dictionary" a listen, as well as "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead". Both are great songs.

[@Spiffanni]

Your shirt though!!! 😃❤️❤️❤️

[@74artgrrl]

I’m going to go on a little rant here. I love this song. It doesn’t preach nor does it pontificate. But it does ask serious questions. See, I’m not religious nor am I atheist. An atheist has decided that definitely no god exists. A religious person has likely chosen one of the gods and or religions available to choose through. I’m an agnostic. I’m an agnostic. I don’t pretend to know what the after- death experience will bring. I tend to not concern myself with trivialities that no one has a definitive way of knowing. I focus on here and now. If the living people and other creatures on this planet were equipped to know exactly everything including what happens once we die we’d be insane. This is why I focus on the better features of humanity. The here and now.

[@adorkability]

Sarah McLachlan does an amazing cover of this.

[@resistresist1811]

He's not saying he doesn't believe because there's so many gods, he's saying he doesn't believe in any!

[@ronrodriguezboston]

Love your comentary

[@infin8reactions]

Thank you!! I appreciate it 😊

[@resistresist1811]

HUH? This song is not a prayer... dude this is an effing atheist song! Has nothing to do with greedy rich people. He's not saying he Can't Believe in You because there is 'so many gods'... he's addressing ALL gods.... that Do Nothing!

[@ThePizzaGuy1998]

you didnt watch the whole video before commenting?

[@ThePizzaGuy1998]

@@thatsnotfunnythatssick7390 you aren't the guy I was replying to. He was critiquing the guy for calling the song a prayer at the beginning of the song, then the guy listened to more of the song and understood it wasn't a prayer. So he didn't watch the full video before commenting, or he would have realized that the guy listening to the song understood the message at the end.

[@bobangell1679]

Turtles. Turtles stay alive for 200 years. Just saying. Love XTC and this song is my anthem.

[@xebastiangonzalez7501]

You should react to SIXX a.m. we won't go quietly

[@daphned.7489]

Their song Life is Beautiful is a great one!!

[@JamesMichael333]

I believe in God and Jesus. But i always loved this song. It’s what everyone goes through at some point in their life when they see the pains and disease and suffering in the world. You question your faith. Neil Degrasse Tyson said that “if this world has so much suffering, kids born with cancer, etc, then maybe God isn’t all good, OR maybe God isn’t all powerful”. Something to that effect. It definitely makes you think.

[@mattjohn4731]

Classic! Perhaps the Loch Ness monster is God 🤔

[@infin8reactions]

Haha pick any fictional character 🤣

[@ericgregory5440]

Great reaction to a great video Even if someone outside my family try’s to start a conversation about religion and forced in answer out of me I say the only choice a person has in life is if they are going to be good or evil Believes are good or bad but when you die and family remembers you and the place you go that is what matters did you live your life trying to be as best you can or be person who ethics don’t apply to them

[@AudiophileTubes]

Ethics, morality, good, and bad can, and do, exist independently of religion.

[@xebastiangonzalez7501]

Me and my family are also atheist

[@KajVardinghus]

Yes, but if it wasn't God.... Then it must the real owners of the world... Like George Carlin says: "they've got us by the ba....😊

[@Ph4n_t0m]

oh man.. I thought nobody did this song! This was a significan song in my childhood - my bro put it on a mixtape and I used to listen to it on repeat. Shame the quality of this online is so lousy...

[@daphned.7489]

I thought you would enjoy dissecting this one🤔 Like throwing you a curve ball every now and then Lee💜

[@bazkeen]

Wow. That was different Daphne. Liked it a lot👍🏻👍🏻

[@daphned.7489]

@@bazkeen Thanks Basil. Bet he didn't see this one coming😁

[@bazkeen]

@@daphned.7489 Don't think he did 😋😋😋😋

[@infin8reactions]

I thought it may have been the avenged sevenfold dear god 😂😂😂😂, I certainly have a lot to say on this subject without preaching 😁

[@bazkeen]

@@infin8reactions 😁😁😁😁

[@88pjtink]

And they say that us atheists don't have any songs!! We got this one don't we?!

[@jeffhogg1f]

One of my favorite songs, most interesting is that the letter is addressed to....God... and not to ...the rest of us. A letter to someone or something you "don't believe in"? Hmmm

[@enidrobertson4858]

I would explain this song to my Christian friends this way; If he really doesn't believe in God, why is he writing a letter to him? The song may be a desperate plea for God to reveal himself. Like an employee review asking why He should be allowed to keep his job. I am an atheist. I believe in the scientific method. That means that, unlike an inflexible faith in an ancient religion, my beliefs are based on evidence and proof. I also understand that those beliefs are only as good as the knowledge we have at this exact point in time. That knowledge can change each time a new discovery is made, like those first discoveries made by the first telescope or microscope. Might there someday be a technology that allows us to see, to prove or disprove, what we currently attribute to spirituality? Religion and science will both have a choice to make.

[@capablancauk]

Euthyphro dilemma

[@resistresist1811]

Didn't you hear the damn words? This is an atheist song, not an effing prayer.

[@robertbattle6778]

Read the Bible and you would understand

[@infin8reactions]

Nah mate, I'll pass on that thank you

[@MikeHart72]

Us crazy humans wrote the bible