Finally Loudwire gets Greg Graffin on!!!!! So excited for this thank you!! Hoping there's a Wikipedia Fact or Fiction with him. Greg is a huge inspiration to me and I was at one of the shows a few weeks ago on my 30th birthday and man what an amazing night. Got to hang out with Greg and talk with him for 15 minutes while he signed some things for me. Such a great musician, songwriter and human being.
Great interview! Can't wait to listen to the album. "Part III" is a perfect example of a BR song that remains relevant through the years, much like the Norman Blake track Greg is talking about. Timeless.
Compared to some of the other tracks they put other as well as what other punk bands were releasing I think whimsical is a pretty good term to describe some of BR's lighter stuff.
Like most of you reading this, I have been listening to Bad Religion and punk rock in general for a long time (since the tender age of 12 in '94 when Stranger than Fiction was released). This band made me question everything I was taught growing up, especially religion and Christianity. For a long time, I just believed what I was told, never to question the Bible as it was the word of God, literally. I never knew what evolution really was, or the Big Bang, I was so narrow minded and completely brainwashed I dismissed and criticized anyone with a conflicting worldview. One day, someone asked me a question I'll never forget - Why would God create us when he knew of the death and suffering to come? It bugged me that I had no answer...so I began asking this question to several pastors...none of which had an answer. It shook the foundations of my belief and so I began searching for answers. More and more of these questions came up again with no answers. Unlike many Christian fundamentalists out there, I decided to try and look at life from a neutral, unbias perspective, do research and then formulate some kind of answer based on what I found. Years went by and I devoured pretty much any book relating to science and philosophy. (Dawkins, Harris, Dennet, Hitchens, Krauss, Craig, Strobel to name a few). During this journey, there were many things I used to believe that I simply cannot anymore. (6 day creation, the fall of man etc) but the strange thing I find to this day is that no matter what 'evidence' atheists use to try disprove the existence of a Creator, there is simply much more evidence SUPPORTING a Creator. Christians make the mistake of using the Bible as their source of all knowledge, where it is not. It is simply a book, put together by men, written by different people over multiple centuries, INSPIRED by God. If you want evidence for a creator, just look at things like the initial conditions of the Big Bang, universal constants etc and you will quickly see why it is really difficult to believe our existence is some cosmological accident. www.godandscience.org This is why although I have much love and respect for Graffin, it seems to me he is caught on the other side of extremism.
God is always presented as an omniscient being but in the Bible, he gave humans free will. They decided to use it "against" him, leading to the fall of men. To be fair, the concept of free will is a weird one when there is a being that already knows what will happen but still: humans and only humans are responsible for the suffering on earth - both in the Bible and in real life. So, I never got why people dont find the answer to the question "if god loves us/created us, why does he let us suffer?" It`s not him. We're making ourselves suffer. Furthermore, I dont believe there is literally one piece of proof that god exists. I also doubt that everything just happened by chance and there are too man y things we can never know. But at the end of the day, there is no proof of a creator. You're doing what believers have been doing for centuries: trying to explain what they can't, through the existence of a divine being
Justin B This comment is 2 months old I've changed my mind since then recipe might not be my favorite but it's up there currently my least favorite is dissent of man
How could anyone down vote this video? Dr Graffin is the MAN!
I fucking love Greg Graffin. Bad Religion is my favorite punk band.
Finally Loudwire gets Greg Graffin on!!!!! So excited for this thank you!! Hoping there's a Wikipedia Fact or Fiction with him. Greg is a huge inspiration to me and I was at one of the shows a few weeks ago on my 30th birthday and man what an amazing night. Got to hang out with Greg and talk with him for 15 minutes while he signed some things for me. Such a great musician, songwriter and human being.
Thumps up on the Wiki Fact or Fiction idea!
You learn more about life listening to one Bad Religion record than in 4 years of Highschool.
Damn near, lol!
Noah Kunz your goddamn right sir
Great interview! Can't wait to listen to the album. "Part III" is a perfect example of a BR song that remains relevant through the years, much like the Norman Blake track Greg is talking about. Timeless.
coolest doctor ever
toto gonzales Him or Milo Auckerman
FallingInAndOutOfReality Band They're both best doctors of punk ;)
Arnoldo Deleon Agreed!
lovin the bad brains shirt
OLD MAN GRAFFIN;
BLESS YOU SINNER'S
It's funny how little Greg's persona has changed over the years. Still all the same mannerisms from interviews in the 80s
One of my musical and intellectual heroes for sure. I could listen to Greg talk for hours.
I'm so excited to see bad religion on the 19th at Musink. I'm a huge fan!
Special_Jhay nice glad people in here are big fans
"My friends call me a doctor" love this man
Everybody's talking about the girl who went and killed the delivery man
joe strummer She looked so kind and gentle, it just doesn't stand to reason.
Does this guy know what the word whimsical means? I wouldn't use it to describe any BR or GG songs.
Compared to some of the other tracks they put other as well as what other punk bands were releasing I think whimsical is a pretty good term to describe some of BR's lighter stuff.
Like most of you reading this, I have been listening to Bad Religion and punk rock in general for a long time (since the tender age of 12 in '94 when Stranger than Fiction was released). This band made me question everything I was taught growing up, especially religion and Christianity. For a long time, I just believed what I was told, never to question the Bible as it was the word of God, literally. I never knew what evolution really was, or the Big Bang, I was so narrow minded and completely brainwashed I dismissed and criticized anyone with a conflicting worldview. One day, someone asked me a question I'll never forget - Why would God create us when he knew of the death and suffering to come? It bugged me that I had no answer...so I began asking this question to several pastors...none of which had an answer. It shook the foundations of my belief and so I began searching for answers. More and more of these questions came up again with no answers. Unlike many Christian fundamentalists out there, I decided to try and look at life from a neutral, unbias perspective, do research and then formulate some kind of answer based on what I found. Years went by and I devoured pretty much any book relating to science and philosophy. (Dawkins, Harris, Dennet, Hitchens, Krauss, Craig, Strobel to name a few). During this journey, there were many things I used to believe that I simply cannot anymore. (6 day creation, the fall of man etc) but the strange thing I find to this day is that no matter what 'evidence' atheists use to try disprove the existence of a Creator, there is simply much more evidence SUPPORTING a Creator. Christians make the mistake of using the Bible as their source of all knowledge, where it is not. It is simply a book, put together by men, written by different people over multiple centuries, INSPIRED by God. If you want evidence for a creator, just look at things like the initial conditions of the Big Bang, universal constants etc and you will quickly see why it is really difficult to believe our existence is some cosmological accident. www.godandscience.org This is why although I have much love and respect for Graffin, it seems to me he is caught on the other side of extremism.
God is always presented as an omniscient being but in the Bible, he gave humans free will. They decided to use it "against" him, leading to the fall of men. To be fair, the concept of free will is a weird one when there is a being that already knows what will happen but still: humans and only humans are responsible for the suffering on earth - both in the Bible and in real life. So, I never got why people dont find the answer to the question "if god loves us/created us, why does he let us suffer?" It`s not him. We're making ourselves suffer.
Furthermore, I dont believe there is literally one piece of proof that god exists. I also doubt that everything just happened by chance and there are too man y things we can never know. But at the end of the day, there is no proof of a creator. You're doing what believers have been doing for centuries: trying to explain what they can't, through the existence of a divine being
american Jesus
Bad Religion Hello Kitty
goodbye pussy
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Generator and Recipe For Hate just never did anything for me.
Justin B This comment is 2 months old I've changed my mind since then recipe might not be my favorite but it's up there currently my least favorite is dissent of man
well bugger off then, theyve done so many better albums than youve probably had positive thoughts