He certainly did earn that reputation.
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't want a nation under the new mania
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Lyrics submitted by animated456, edited by devildog579
American Idiot Lyrics as written by Frank Edwin Iii Wright Michael Ryan Pritchard
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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by MaidenNameCocaine on 02-28-2006 @ 07:33:25 PM
I think chocolate is a god fearing little whore to the church
This is typical atheistic grandstanding. What does this comment even mean? The phrase 'god fearing' is turned into an insult by using the phrase equivocally (clever). How am I a 'whore to the church', this would imply that I receive money to help the church accomplish it's goals (to inaguarate Christ's new kingdom and act as salt and light in the world as 'little Christ's' (the literal meaning of Christian) i.e. sharing people's pain, breaking down barriers, helping the sick and the poor). I don't receiving any money for going to church. As for the empty atheist arguments about God being a security blanket and other narrow-minded ignorant crap, any anthropologist could tell you that all religions are centrally based on religious experiences. Or in other words they honestly believe what they believe.
An example: if I offered to give someone a million dollars if they stopped believing that 2+2=4 they wouldn't be able to claim it. While it may be possible that they could force themselves to undergo some form of brainwashing program to make them not believe it, it seems unlikely that under normal conditions a regular person, not under any huge degree of psychological stress would be able to alter their most basic beliefs. The world's leading philosopher Alvin Plantinga has proven that a theist even in the absence of any evidence for their belief is still warranted to believe without breaking any of their epistemic or cognitive duties. I haven't seen any reason to think that theism in untrue. In fact here is a page of debates about this very question by people who have pHD's for evaluation: leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/debates.html
But is it irreponsible to believe in Christianity? Has Christianity had a negative effect on society? No, in fact it's effect has been overwhelimingly positive! Before Christianity infanticide was universally accepted:christiancadre.org/member_contrib/cp_infanticide.html Before Christianity there was NO SUCH THING as charity in the sense we mean it today:christiancadre.org/member_contrib/cp_infanticide.html
Also, on every single test of morality or citizenship church going Christians come first: According to the BBC News website evangelical Christians in Britain donate NINE times the average amount to charity per household(12% of their income)