Southern Gospel Music

I've always been an atheist, never a Christian, but there is one thing about the religion that I do like: Southern Gospel Music...

That last song - When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder - has always been one of my favourites but it was only the other day that I noticed just how many other Christian songs have a similarly morbid theme.

In most of the songs listed below there is an expressed desire to die and go to heaven; to leave this miserable world and find true happiness in the afterlife. When you see these songs lined up, one after the other, you suddenly realise that Christianity really is a death cult.

I've got links to all the songs listed, but if you haven't got time to listen to them, here's a five minute compilation of snippets from each song. The thing that gets me is that the lyrics are saying "this world is a horrible place and I can't wait to die and get away from it all," yet the tunes are bright and bouncy and the singers are as happy as can be. Like I said - a death cult!

Just A Little While
Soon this life will all be over,
And our pilgrimage will end.
Soon we'll take our heav'nly journey,
Be at home again with friends
Heaven's gates are standing open
Waiting for our entrance there
Some sweet day we're going over
All the beauties there to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHssiKQ-CV4

What A Day That Will Be
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWuboX1oZ0

When We All Get Together With The Lord

Now when the rich and the poor
Get together with the Lord
Get Together, Get Together, With the lord
They will greet each other
Like sister and brother
When they all get together with the Lord 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxAqNnwpfsg

When We All Get To Heaven

Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace;
In the mansions bright and blessed
He’ll prepare for us a place.
When we all get to heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We’ll sing and shout the victory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClwsynwVrI

Getting Ready To Leave This World

 Laying up my treasures in that home above
Trusting, fully trusting in the Savior's love;
Doing what I can for heaven's Holy Dove
I'm a getting ready to leave this world.
I'm a getting ready to leave this world of sorrow
I'm a getting ready for the gates of pearl
Keeping my record bright
Watching, both day and night
I'm getting ready to leave this world. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xt5trs3FBU

I'll Have A New Life

On that resurrection morning
When all dead in Christ shall rise
I'll have a new body
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life
Raised in the likeness of my Savior
Ready to live in Paradise
I'll have a new body
Praise the Lord, I'll have a new life 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HjtJFbZn8s

Won't It Be Wonderful There

When with the savior we enter the glory land
Won't it be wonderful there
Ended the troubles and cares of the story land
Won't it be wonderful there? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFp4nL1shk

When I Get Carried Away

I'm gonna let the glory roll
When the roll is called in Glory
I'm gonna get beside myself
When I get beside the King that day
I'm gonna have the time of my life
When the time of my life is over
I'm gonna get carried away
When I get carried away 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMg_4pJ1e4g

Everybody Will Be Happy Over There

There's a happy land of promise
Over in the great beyond
Where the saved of earth shall soon the glory share

We shall sing his praise forever
As we look upon his face
Everybody will be happy over there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8LFaYBVkk