Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

Film Glance Forum

  1. Home
  2. The IMDb Archives
  3. religion

religion

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The IMDb Archives
13 Posts 1 Posters 0 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • F Offline
    F Offline
    fgadmin
    wrote last edited by
    #1

    Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Frank Zappa


    Henrisalmela — 18 years ago(August 14, 2007 08:50 AM)

    what's frank's view on religion? Was he a believer, atheist or agnostic?

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • F Offline
      F Offline
      fgadmin
      wrote last edited by
      #2

      TheHatefulFred — 18 years ago(August 15, 2007 12:55 PM)

      Frank seemed to think all religion was pretty silly, and he especially liked to point out the hipocrisy of people like Jimmy Swaggart. Check out the lyrics to "Dumb All Over". That pretty much says it all.
      "If we're Dumb, then God is Dumb.and maybe even a little Ugly on the Side!"
      -FZ
      Bring back Arrested Development

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • F Offline
        F Offline
        fgadmin
        wrote last edited by
        #3

        grrrdevin — 17 years ago(June 18, 2008 03:02 AM)

        Jimmy Swaggert, John Lofton, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham all walk the earth, while FZ collects maggots in the grave. There is no God.
        "I've been living on toxic waste for years, and I'm
        fine.
        Just ask my other heads!"

        1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • F Offline
          F Offline
          fgadmin
          wrote last edited by
          #4

          ProfessorGas — 18 years ago(January 19, 2008 01:50 PM)

          I've never found anything definitive, exept as the other poster pointed out he was very much against the hipocrisy of evaneglicals at the time. On the other hand, so am I, and I am religious. Maybe he beleived in something, maybe not. Probably had his own idea. He seemd to on nearly everything else.
          There's bad brown acid going around. You can take it with a grain of salt!

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • F Offline
            F Offline
            fgadmin
            wrote last edited by
            #5

            IMDb User

            This message has been deleted.

            1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • F Offline
              F Offline
              fgadmin
              wrote last edited by
              #6

              ProfessorGas — 18 years ago(March 28, 2008 05:16 PM)

              Amen brutha!!
              I see stupid people; theyre everywhere. They dont even know theyre stupid!

              1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • F Offline
                F Offline
                fgadmin
                wrote last edited by
                #7

                cheepnis — 17 years ago(July 29, 2008 11:17 PM)

                he was raised catholic, but grew out of it. He had a serious disdain for organized religion and mocked those who were repressed by it or exploited it

                1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • F Offline
                  F Offline
                  fgadmin
                  wrote last edited by
                  #8

                  jefgg — 10 years ago(October 08, 2015 05:34 AM)

                  Zappa was often characterized as an atheist. On Dweezil's birth certificate, for father's religion Zappa put "musician".

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • F Offline
                    F Offline
                    fgadmin
                    wrote last edited by
                    #9

                    toursiveu — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 05:25 AM)

                    "Well, I believe that those energies and processes exist. I just don't think that they've been adequately described or adequately named yet, because people are too willing to make it all into something that supports a religious theory of one flavor or another. If you start defining these things in nuts-and-bolts scientific terms, people reject it because it's not fun, y'know. It takes some of the romance out of being dead because of people's desires to have eternal life and to extend their influence from beyond the grave all that Houdini type stuff but basically, I think when you're dead you're dead. It comes with the territory."
                    Frank Zappa, Society Pages No. 7, January 12, 1991, quoted from The Way I See It, Barry

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • F Offline
                      F Offline
                      fgadmin
                      wrote last edited by
                      #10

                      toursiveu — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 05:26 AM)

                      "The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your beep mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."
                      Frank Zappa, interview, Playboy, May 2, 1993

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • F Offline
                        F Offline
                        fgadmin
                        wrote last edited by
                        #11

                        toursiveu — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 05:28 AM)

                        "Children are nave they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble."
                        Frank Zappa

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • F Offline
                          F Offline
                          fgadmin
                          wrote last edited by
                          #12

                          toursiveu — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 05:29 AM)

                          "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."
                          Frank Zappa

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • F Offline
                            F Offline
                            fgadmin
                            wrote last edited by
                            #13

                            toursiveu — 10 years ago(October 09, 2015 05:30 AM)

                            "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?"
                            Frank Zappa, to a concert audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0

                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            Powered by NodeBB Contributors
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • Users
                            • Groups