"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Maybe it's too late for an intellectual debate,
But a residue of confusion remains.
Changing with the times,
And amphetamine tortured minds
Are average the citizen's sources of pain.
Tell me what we're fighting forâ??
I don't remember anymore,
Only temporary reprieve
And the world might cease
If we fail to tame the beast
From the faith that you release
Comes an atheist peace.
Atheist peace.
Political forces ran
Political winds of discontent,
And the modern age emerged triumphantly.
But now that safety's gone,
And it's time to de-evolve
And relive the dark chapters of history
Tell me what we're fighting forâ??
No progress ever came from war,
Only a false sense of increase
And the world won't wait
For the truth upon a plate
But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace.
Atheist peace
But a residue of confusion remains.
Changing with the times,
And amphetamine tortured minds
Are average the citizen's sources of pain.
Tell me what we're fighting forâ??
I don't remember anymore,
Only temporary reprieve
And the world might cease
If we fail to tame the beast
From the faith that you release
Comes an atheist peace.
Atheist peace.
Political forces ran
Political winds of discontent,
And the modern age emerged triumphantly.
But now that safety's gone,
And it's time to de-evolve
And relive the dark chapters of history
Tell me what we're fighting forâ??
No progress ever came from war,
Only a false sense of increase
And the world won't wait
For the truth upon a plate
But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace.
Atheist peace
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I think this song is about how there has been so much war in human history, many do to religious conflicts.
"Atheist Peace" is a play off the phrase "Holy War" because they are exact opposites.
Let's see, 7 crusades, "Deus lo vult", inquisition for more than 500 years and rejecting scientific facts. Yeah, religion is totally harmless. Besides, how do you know Hitler was atheist? He was good friends with the catholic church and the pope himself. There goes your good Christian thought, fucking hypocrite.
Let's see, 7 crusades, "Deus lo vult", inquisition for more than 500 years and rejecting scientific facts. Yeah, religion is totally harmless. Besides, how do you know Hitler was atheist? He was good friends with the catholic church and the pope himself. There goes your good Christian thought, fucking hypocrite.
Read more into Hitler Dumb ass. You gotta look pretty deep but you would rather be indoctrinated by a hypocrite musician. I know an atheist is where I wanna go for spiritual answers. the catholics are not my version of spiritualality.
You write like your too lazy to research the truth so here is a bit of real Hitler history for you SomePunkKid. Hitler had 2 major influences in his life one was Fredrick Nietzsche: a fanatic atheist, and Machiavelli who disdained Christian principles. Hitler was indeed born Catholic but rebuked the church. The 'friendship with the catholic church you mentioned was only to gain support of the catholic and Lutheran portions of Germany. The red in the Nazi flag was there to please the communists and socialists. As for science, the science of Darwinism gave Hitler the scientific justification for his murderous policies. Darwin is being proven wrong with the further knowledge gained in cellular biology. But Greg Graffin is so vested in his atheism he cannot and will not even entertain the notion of something more than his own intellectual arrogance. why don't you look up the word "Indoctrination" Graffin is a genius at propaganda, otherwise unimpressive to someone who researches history, political theories and economies. To me Greg Graffin is a pathetic fool who suffers from his own narcissism and hypocrisy. Im proud of ya pal you at least used a French word. Let's deal with with the crusades, they were fought by Muslims and Christians. Here is the nasty truth it wasn't about religion. it was about spoils. The european Monarchy sent knights under the auspices of the church to gain wealth and they did.<br /> I am no fan of religion, and believe it or not the bible isn't either. But ya gotta read it to see it. Why can't science explain the shroud of Turin? It has tried many times and none have been able to reproduce it. Today's science is agenda driven and in a lot of cases for Gov't grants and possibility of a creator is blocked out by the institutions of higher learning. We can go on to the Inquisitions if you like.
Let's see, the Protestants in Germany were all brought into line without a single complaint, except for three larger churches. You're right, it's not about religion, it's about exploiting religion for your own goals. What sounds better? "I want to conquer this land because I am greedy" or "I need to conquer this land for it is the Lord's will!"<br /> By the way, Darwin was never proven wrong, his theories were merely extended. How about you learn what natural selection and mutation really means?
Gallium31, you are simply historically incorrect on this point. Hitler was Catholic until the day he died, according to his colleague Albert Speer. There are many quotes from him supporting Christianity, and he boasted of having removed atheism from Germany. To believe Hitler was an atheist is to believe a simple historically-proven falsehood.
Gallium31, it doesn't matter, of course atheists fight, thats what people do, but they don't kill over what they believe, thats the point of the song. you have never had 2 intellectuals go "sir, I adamantly disagree with your theory, despite the massive amounts of evidence supporting it, so I am going to kill you and all the people who agree" that just doesn't work. As for hitler, without religion he would have had a harder time finding a scape goat to kill millions of, and even if he was atheist, he really didn't intern the jews just because of religion, he needed a scapegoat of people to blame so he could gain powah. and science doesn't have all the answers yet, but we explain a lot more, and eventually we shall either explain or disprove religion once and for all.
gallium31, i don't know if you don't have enough history knowledge or is trying to distort reality, but Hitler was a catholic until the end of his life. And please, read Mein Kampf and the german history arround the 30s, and PLESE, make a really good research about the WWII, instead of saying biased facts about it's connection with darwnism. Oh, and you call Greg an hypocrite, but you're here talking shit about him in his song page that has lyrics that got you offended cause say the truth about your "pretty" belif. Oh, and science is the search for answers, but it doesnt have the answer for everything YET, maybe you don't know what is the scientific method. Go ahead and stay in your dark age with a book that has a magical answer for everything, and support slavery and has more violence than a gore movie.
I'm not sure if you kids are from the states or anything, but gallium does make some good points. I've been a BR fan most of my life now. I can say that I enjoyed listening to their music for a long time. I've come to understand things that even Mr. Graffin does not understand, nor do most atheists or christians. Mainly because I took time to think and grow to understand the universe around me. I look at you and I see a glimmer of truth in Galliums claims. You atheists claim that atheists don't generally quarrel and debate things in a peaceful and collected manner. I do not see one shred of evidence of that here. You may not use a sword to harm a man, but you are slick with words and will distort every decent thing left on earth with your childish paradigms. A belief never killed 1 fucking human being on this planet. A man with conviction and naivety did so because he was a f** bigot. I looked that word up in the dictionary before thinking it was used to describe people who are intolerant of race. In reality it is the people who harbor intolerance and hatred for people who's ideas and way of life do not mirror your own pointless and miserable ones. Greg is a bigot and all of you here are bigots. I hesitate to call myself a bigot because the only thing I do not tolerate is human ignorance and stupidity which is reflected in almost every human being. I myself am no exception. But at least I have the fucking balls to admit it. Unlike Greg and unlike you I have the balls to say, "Hey, every human being knows jack f* and they will never know anything more" Because when you actually f**** LOOK with your MIND'S EYE (You know that shit where you imagine something and you see it in your head) at how big the f** universe is and how small and petty you retards are. You will come to understand in this that you're NEVER going to figure out where we came from because people like you will always be bickering and whining instead of fixing the f** world around you. And because of your fighting you're gonna fuck yourselves into oblivion. If you are an "Atheist" you should know better then to spit petty words like this. Arguing bush when you're going to die pointlessly and meaninglessly soon due to nuclear war. Unfortunately you are all ignorant bigots and my words are like a librarian's crusade for the illiterate. I bid you all good day and I hope one of you is clever enough to scrounge up a little intelligence in your feeble and mediocre minds to even comprehend what I just wrote, if not question yourselves a little. Intelligence is not based on what you know. It is questioning what you think you know to attain more answer/results/variables. And the variables are endless. This is why I like progressive death metal because the kids aren't as retarded as you and can actually f** respect others. I dare you little sh**s to refute any of this because I've said all I have to say.
I find it infinitely amusing how you ramble about respecting others while calling people every curse in the book, you throw around the word bigot like a child with a word of the day calendar without showing us how we are bigots. I'm an Atheist, I haven't found sufficient evidence to believe in a god, I debate friends and fellow students because I like to have my ideas challenged, as well as seeing if they hold up to scrutiny. You say I'm a bigot because I don't accept religion? You say Gaffin is a bigot because he wrote a song about holy war? (you'll excuse me for going off topic here, but Hitler was in fact a roman catholic, however debating it serves no purpose because World War 2 had very little to do with Hitler's religion) Can you tell us how we are being bigoted? Us Atheist can get flustered, because we're human, and humans have emotions. <br /> <br /> now for me to get into a bit of the personal stuff you mentioned<br /> you go on about how because we're wasting time arguing on the internet we're all going to die pointless deaths due to nuclear war. I seriously hope you're kidding, for the very thought of anyone being so intellectually void, so vapid as to believe that some punks spending free time on something other than political discourse is going to bring about the end of society as we know it. You say that we'll never learn the answers of the universe, and you may be right, but so fucking what? does that mean we shouldn't try to learn more? we learn more and more about both ourselves and the universe every year. Do you think if you went back in time and told Sir Isaac Newton "hey, we'll never learn everything there is to know about the universe, you may as well stop with your work in physics and mathematics, who gives a shit about how gravity works? or how light exists in a spectrum? you're just going to die a pointless death by disease" that he would give up? spend his days lying around doing nothing because there was no point to experimentation? HELL NO, nobody would care. Scientists don't think about this stuff because they think they'll find out how magic works one day and magically fix all of life's problems. <br /> <br /> (in a few words, shut the hell up, you pseudo-intellectual fuck, and yes, I'm pissed, I think it's called for when you have directly insulted me and my peers)
I understand what you're getting at, but you don't understand where I'm coming from. I'm insulting you because you can't seem to look at the goddamn big picture. You and your retarded fucking peers. I am grateful that you decided to take your atheist tard rage down a notch to appear calm and collected in front of rabid foes, but you are just going to show how Ignorant you are of your situation. Me and my peers. Nice group mentality that practices exclusion on the masses. That my friend is how you show bigotry. By excluding others from being like you. From having a great distaste for those who do not share your beliefs. To say that I am a bigot would be flawed, because if I did not tolerate you assholes I would have killed myself long ago. But you manage to get by with eyes closed. You know not of how it is to truly be awake. You use every "intelligent" thought you can muster to make other people look stupid instead of working with them as an "Intellectual" to get better answers. You don't have peers, dude. Merely people following the same fabricated idealism that you've been indoctrinated into without any regard or respect to the others that share it. Upon reading what you posted again I've come to the conclusion that you've completely misinterpreted what I was writing anyway. I in no way called myself an intellectual in the first place. I think those who do are fucking full of themselfs, which in turn is full of shit. Most of the time my friend you are not debating. You are not reasoning because you like so many others hold petty convictions that determine what you're going to say in the end. Have a good day little monkey. May your confusion be a beacon of hope for the Issac Newtons everywhere. I think If I told him what you said, he would give up and smoke a bowl with me. Change his career into something more musical and stop trying to find answers because that is the answer. Even your most idolized Mr Graffin stated that any answers just gonna be full of shit.
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"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian." ~Adolf Hitler October 27, 1928.
Also, everyone is an atheist; some just go one god farther.
sorrynametaken.....you fucking totally hit the nail on the head....I personally dont believe in god and I think the world would be a better place without religion.( just my opinion don't fucking flip) But yeah a very good Bad Religion song but my favorite is No Substance
Hell is the world with out God. Hell is your choice. Ooop's if you don't believe in God then hell doesn"t exist.
Yeah, cause a god that loves everyone would really condemn people do a fate of unimaginable horror. and according to religion few are going to heaven anyway, because nobody is perfect, and plenty of sects of christianity all say if you aren't part of THAT sect you go to hell, so if chirsitanity is correct then we all go to hell period. also I don't want to be part of a religion that thinks that priests who molest little kids can still go to heaven. I quite enjoy my life without god. god brings immorality under the guise of morality. have you seen what people will do in the name of god? and besides, your all powerful god doesn't need to be worshiped. if its really all powerful it could create a creature just to worship it. or it would show itself and then get all the worship it needs. lets say you have an ant farm, would you honestly care if they worshiped you? its not like they could help you do anything you could already do
Yeah, cause a god that loves everyone would really condemn people do a fate of unimaginable horror. and according to religion few are going to heaven anyway, because nobody is perfect, and plenty of sects of christianity all say if you aren't part of THAT sect you go to hell, so if chirsitanity is correct then we all go to hell period. also I don't want to be part of a religion that thinks that priests who molest little kids can still go to heaven. I quite enjoy my life without god. god brings immorality under the guise of morality. have you seen what people will do in the name of god? and besides, your all powerful god doesn't need to be worshiped. if its really all powerful it could create a creature just to worship it. or it would show itself and then get all the worship it needs. lets say you have an ant farm, would you honestly care if they worshiped you? its not like they could help you do anything you could already do
I heard an interview somewhere where Graffin said that this song was an attack on the belief that if you're an atheist, you're supposed to be combative and fight with people of various religious affiliations.
I'm not quite sure how that works, but there you go.
I personally wouldn't like to rid the world of Religion, at all. I am an atheist through and through, but I think that the world would be shit if we all believed in the same thing - where would the debates be? I respect people's rights to have a religion of course, but I do not believe churches should be tax-free, because they're becoming businesses.
I'm all for trying to convince people of atheistic arguments but if I had the chance tomorrow to rid the world of religion.. I wouldn't do it for the aforementioned reason.
Agnosticism isn't logical, it's a fence sittting position. Marty1982 is completely wrong. For one, only idiot is good out of the fear of punishment and if nobody believed in god then the leaders wouldn't be hearing the crazy ass voice of their imaginary friend which told them to go forth and take the blade to all the infidels. Interesting how no wars have been started out of atheism, Stalin and Hitler don't count, their movements were out of political ideologies, and Hitler was a catholic. Other than the fucking long rant, it's an excellent song. Blackbird 1565 hit the nail on the head.
For the people who are describing themselves as agnostic, agnosticism is completely different from theism and atheism. Agnosticism deals with what you know, while theism and atheism deals in what you believe. Theism describes belief in a god, and atheism decscribed no belief in a god, not belief in no god. What is described as 'strong atheism' should really be call non-theism.
People who say that the threat of hell and promise of heaven keep people in line need to review the christian religion. The christian bible says that faith gets you into heaven, not deeds. The oldest argument illustrating this is asserting that Hitler, a catholic, could get into heaven, as long as he believes in Jesus, while Gandhi would go to hell for his lack of that belief. There is no justice in this kind of judgement, and there's nothing to stop any christian from going genocidal.
And for those who say that religion is the only reason for war, you are right. It is merely a tool that drives differing opinions against each other. But, would you let 3rd graders take guns to school?
Anyway, the song is awesome. I just heard it 2 hours ago, and now I love it.
I never got to my main point:
It's naiive to believe that without religion there would be no war.
You're really fooling yourself if you think believing in the Tooth Fairy is going to help anything in this world. Give me a fucking break.
If it isn't always about war, then tell me, where are the wars about our preferences in pizza toppings? Where was the last war concerning who watches Oprah? Or about an offensive skin condition on some political leader?
It's always about religion. And since there is, in fact, no God/Jesus/Muhammad/Mishna/whathaveyou, you're all murderers. Murderers who have the nerve to look down on the logical-minded atheists who have picked out the frauds from day one.
I do, however, agree that there's a disappointing amount of ignorance on Songmeanings.net over how the Christian religion actually works. I'm sorry, but just as there are plenty of hypocritical pastors/priests out there, there are also many hypocritical/fraudulant atheists out there too. Just as a Christian can't blindly follow what a pastor preaches, an atheist shouldn't blindly follow what people like Richard Dawkins say either.