Is there such a thing as an atheist oratorio, a Handel’s Messiah for for the non-religious? If not sacred texts, what material would it use? Without a liturgical tradition to draw on, what music would inspire its creation? Scott Johnson has created Mind Out of Matter as an answer to these questions—a work examining religion from an atheist point of view. Instead of choirs singing biblical texts, Mind Out of Matter uses the recorded voice of Daniel C. Dennett, talking about the ideas…