A few posts ago, I mentioned that I spend several hours a day listening to the radio, especially satellite radio - I subscribe to Sirius. Sirius has several channels devoted to specific singers and groups. Icons such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen have channels devoted to their music. There is now a "new kid on the icon block". Sirus channel #3 is now devoted to the music of the best pop music group of all time, ABBA. Now, I cannot promise that this station will be around forever. It is a means to promote the release of "Mama Mia", a movie that is based on the songs of ABBA, not the story of the group ABBA.
I may be one of ABBA's biggest fans, but I am amazed by how much music they put out. I have heard "Dancing Queen" in three languages. I have heard ABBA sing "On Top of Old Smokey". The station has played several interviews with Bjorn Ulveaus and Benny Andersson, the two males of ABBA. Benny wrote most of the music and Bjorn came up with most of the lyrics. I am amazed that they have never taken ABBA too seriously. They thought the ABBA name was pretty lame, but no more lame than The Beatles or The Monkees. They wrote many melodies and lyrics after several glasses of whiskey. My favorite tale is: Bjorn and Agnetha lived in a large house on an island near Stockholm. Benny and Ani-Frid lived in a nearby house. Several hundred yards up a steep hill from their homes, Bjorn and Benny had a very small cabin. All that was in the cabin was a piano. It was in this cabin where they wrote most of ABBAs music. One night in the middle of the winter, they were in the cabin drinking whiskey and trying to write some music. The cabin did not have heat. They decided to move the piano down to Benny's house by themselves. The temperature was wll below freezing. There was about a foot of snow on the ground. It was about 3:00 am. All they had to work with was a muddy dirt path on a steep hill. Somehow, the piano, Bjorn and Benny all made it down to Benny's house in one piece. When they got the piano situated, the wrote the music and lyrics for "Fernando", one of their bigger hits, in about an hour.
How do the atheists reply to that?
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