Music and lyrics by Greg Graffin

Hoards could be hordes but in the lyrics included with the album it's hoards so i keep it this way.


Some parts by Greg from the book "is God, good, bad or irrelevant?"

I am convinced that, in time, as we abolisch the myth that truth is something larger than our naturalistic investigations, fewer and fewer people will find it necessary to subscribe to the supernaturalistic.


I interviewed the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins about this topic and he put it this way: Things "out there" that haven't been discovered yet are "waiting to be drawn into embrace of naturalism. "

There is no metaphysical reality to God. God is an epiphenomenon of the human brain.

Evolution still hasn't caught on universally, particularly in the USA where children are taught ancient creation stories instead of modern evolution stories. I predict it will be another 100 years, if education isn't totally corrupted, before Americans understand and accept Darwinism.

In any event, children grow up and become university professors and join psychology departments. Then they write books with theses like "god exists in our neurons" or some other nonsense, completely mudding the issue of metaphysics.

If God is no more than neurons in action, God doesn't exists! It is the burden of the theist to demonstrate that God exists outside the neurons.

Attempting to show that the universe is elaborately designed doesn't discount evolution to any degree and it certainly doesn't suggest to me that there is a God. It just means some very elaborate things can materialize given enough time.

The focus on ultimate meaning is a story told to us as we develop that ultimate meaning is more important than proximate meaning.

I feel fine not having any need for ultimate explanations. It might be the key to my happiness, in fact!

As long as Christian theology has no satisfying answer to human suffering, it is at a terrible disadvantage. That is why so amny intellectuals have moved away from it as a belief system, and even the religious intelligentsia offer an uncomfortable explanation of suffering. "God's ways are mysterious." It simply isn't a satisfying intellectual explanation.


Atrocities are a part of human cicilization and are the result of ignorance about human nature. Until naturalistic investigation, there was no way to understand human nature. But that will change in the coming centuries. Human behavior will be better understood and, hopefully, suffering will be minimized.


Naturalism depends on science, which in turn is anti-authoritarian because any momentary new discovery will overturn the entire theoretical structure. But it has to be repeatable. Do an experiment. Repeat it. It has powers of convincing and it makes you feel good! Especially when it solves difficult puzzles about the world. Knowledge is the cure for the disgruntled.

The child's brain develops and is highly susceptible to stories during the first seven years. There is a strong tendency, as the neurons are creating their interconnections, for a child to absorb the beliefs of a parent. The child creates a worldview in this manner and modifies it through later education.



We are at a transitional period in the intellectual history of the United States(and perhaps the world). The average citizen depends less on, and reads less of, the Bible while at the same time is more knowledgeable about the natural world than ever before. This will continue, and will probably move theology even father to the back burner.



Theology benefits from muddle. Science cannot work with muddle. Experiments depends on clarity and are free from "noise ".


Theology can continue to assert itself in the face of muddle because at its core is the concept that keeps all its followers in a state of confusion: "The ways of God are mysterious."

Of course ignorance is lenient, and if we close our eyes to science, or we fail to learn about biological phenomena (such as neuroscience) we can readily believe that we have special powers of free will. We "feel" free. Unless, of course, you are among the large proportion of humans on this planet who are seriously suffering. Theology depends on such ignorance.