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....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.
Greg Graffin
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Greg Graffin
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 6
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Gregory Walter Graffin
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I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.
Greg Graffin
Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.
Greg Graffin
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Greg Graffin
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Greg Graffin
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.
Greg Graffin
Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.
Greg Graffin
I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
Greg Graffin
The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
Greg Graffin
You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.
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A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
Greg Graffin
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.
Greg Graffin
Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.
Greg Graffin
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.
Greg Graffin
It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.
Greg Graffin
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Greg Graffin
Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.
Greg Graffin
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.
Greg Graffin
People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
Greg Graffin
When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the universe. I don't know if that feeling is enough to replace the solace of religion in the lives of most people, but it is for me.
Greg Graffin
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
Greg Graffin
