A round-up of posts on church resources for a “Forsaken by God” Good Friday or Holy Saturday service to mark the end of Atheism for Lent. I’d love to hear about any other ideas for resources (readings, prayers, music, liturgy, rituals, etc.):
Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God (Resources 1)
Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God (Resources 2)
Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God (Resources 3)
Interrupting God: Take Jesus Down from the Cross
Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God (Resources 4)
Ed Harcourt’s “Church of No Religion”
Atheism for Lent: Forsaken by God (Resources 5)
Depeche Mode’s “Blasphemous Rumours”
Kester Brewin’s “God is Dead. Good.”
Sydney Carter’s “Friday Morning”
Ann Kim’s “Eloi eloi lama sabachthani”
REM’s Losing my Religion (in a major rather than minor key)
Here’s the link to all Atheism for Lent related posts:
This Sydney Carter song, “Friday Morning”, is clearly suited to a Good Friday “Forsaken by God” service to mark the end of an Atheism for Lent Course. When we held such a service at Journey last year, one of our very talented musicians, David Waring, stood up and sang this a cappella, with the rest of us joining in for the choruses:
It was on a Friday morning that they took me from the cell, and I saw they had a carpenter to crucify as well. You can blame it on to Pilate, you can blame it on the Jews, you can blame it on the Devil, but it’s God I accuse.
Chorus: “It’s God they ought to crucify, instead of you and me,” I said to the carpenter a-hanging on the tree.
You can blame it on to Adam, you can blame it on to Eve, you can blame it on the apple, but that I can’t believe. It was God that made the Devil, the woman and the man, and there wouldn’t be an apple, if it wasn’t in the plan.
Now Barabbas was a killer, and they let Barabbas go. But you are being crucified for nothing here below. But God is up in heaven, and he doesn’t do a thing, with a million angels watching, and they never move a wing.
“To hell with Jehovah,” to the carpenter I said. “I wish that a carpenter had made this world instead. Goodbye and good luck to you. Our way will soon divide. Remember me in heaven, the man you hung beside.”
