The Bad Religion Song Interpretation List
80-85    Against the Grain    Suffer    No Control    Generator    Recipe for Hate    Stranger than Fiction    The Gray Race    No Substance
Against the Grain

Entropy: "tells how everything will eventually be overcome by the tendency towards randomness.  And then all of man's ideas, plans, and omnipotence will be proven to be of no meaning after all." (Jack Smith)

Faith Alone: "This song describes mans need for a method of explanation other than religious faiths. Because of the lack of evidence to back up its teacings. And most of it leaves you feeling unanswered, for most religious answers are in the form of a question."(Bill Thompson)

Positive Aspect of Negative Tinking: "so what does it mean? When we tell ourselves its only for awhile we've been deceived cause its only for a moment that the treasures of our day make life easier to complicate, the treasures thrown away" "We desire to inspect and experiment with everything and once were done with it its off to something new. Discarding the old and leaving it to collect dust with the rest we've created. After awhile of doing this it catches up to you and you have nothing more to gain. "excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less." (Bill Thompson)

Against the Grain: "If you don't understand this song you should go sell all your Bad Religion albums and start listening to Yanni or some other easy listening crap."(Bill Thompson)

Flat Earth Society:  "simply makes fun of the flat earth society.  They still insist that the earth as created by god is flat!." (Jack Smith)
Its a song criticizing those who prefer dogmatic thinking than proven scientific theories. "This is an expression of agnostisim about how we assume things that we do not know and are often wrong. So what we do is believe untruths or lies and impose them on others" (Ben Davis)
Its a song criticizing those who prefer dogmatic thinking than proven scientific theories. (Cueva)

Get Off:  "is about how no matter how strong a person's mind, he can still be overcome by primitive things such as sexual desires." (Jack Smith)
"it's about how the situation that the world is in will work for right now, but eventually [the earth] will destroy itself. Also that sometimes he simply wants to give up the almost impossible [effort] to change society for the better, and leave it completly." (Ben Davis)

21st Century Digital Boy:  21st Century Digital boy is about how children are neglected and are not tought basic things. "I don't know how to read but I got a lot of toys" is a good example of this. This is really a great song because it is so true to life. (SLiM(ElHefe184@aol.com))

Modern Man:  "its similar to Progress or Tomorrow. It describes how man is destroying himself without even realizing it." (Jack Smith)

God Song:  "'And did those feet in acient times trod on Americas pastures of green, and did that anthropocentric god wane with his thoughts and beliefs all unseen. I don't think so he's up there with the others layin low, vying with those whom you traded your life to, to bless his soul. And have they told you how to think cleansed your mind of sepsis and autonomy or have you escaped scrutiny and regaled yourself with depravity? now we all see religion is just synthetic frippery, unnecesary in our expanding global cultural efficiency."
The words speak for themselves, you interpret it how you want to, and I will how I want to." (Bill Thompson)

Operation Rescue:  "its about that stupid anti-abortion shit." (Jack Smith)

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