Christianity Is Stupid

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Christianity Is Stupid is a song by Negativland from their 1987 breakthrough album, Escape from Noise that deals with how people can rearrange words and phrases to mean something totally different from the original intention. In this case, they sampled phrases from a 1967 sermon by Rev. Estus Pirkle (from his film If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?). Pirkle's narrative included a (real or imagined) visit to a totalitarian nation where public loudspeakers constantly proclaimed "Christianity is stupid! Communism is good! Give up!" These phrases were taken out of context and mixed with appropriately march-like heavy metal music and various other sound effects.

In 2004, the song was made into a video that sampled many Jesus Christ-topic films and documentaries about totalitarian countries.