Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman

How could you hear "Freewill" as anything other than atheist?

yeah no doubt! it's like he doesn't really even listen to stuff before writing about it, or at least that's the creeping feeling you get reading the book...it's just like he half remembered the song and some jive theory that sounded funny at a party and made some dudes chuckle, so he just throws it out there, facts be damned

the hardcore Rush fans at my h/s were fundamentalist-ish Christians who were into metal-ish stuff: Rush, but also Petra, King's X, Stryper. They were pretty smart dudes and in bands themselves though so Rush have appealed to their nerdish and chopsy sides more than their Christian sides.

Needless to say these guys are all atheists now as far as I know.

thought rush believed in the olympian gods cuz of "cygnus x-i book ii"

they were more just role models