Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin: The True Face Of Atheism

graffin.jpgWhether barking “What should I celebrate, given finite means and a penchant to depreciate?” or teaching Life Sciences for UCLA’s biology department, Bad Religion frontperson Dr. Greg Graffin has always promoted atheism with the utmost didacticity. So it’s great to see that the Humanist Chaplaincy, “Harvard University’s prominent community of atheists and agnostics,” is giving him the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. Says Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, “So much attention gets heaped onto polemicists like Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, but Graffin is a truly deserving candidate for the face of atheism,” Two years ago, Greg Gaffin helped me realize that there there truly is no God, so this feels overdue. [ Cult Punk]

 
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  1. Jon W  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    In before “jerking off on webcam” joke

  2. Lucas Jensen  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    How come most of these Ph.D. rocker guys have such pedestrian lyrics?

  3. Chris N.  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    Think Liz Phair ever does the webcam thing? Because that would be awesome.

  4. drjimmy11  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    @Lucas Jensen: because most people who get degrees in writing are awful awful writers. Academics tend to teach because they can’t do very well. Or because they feel safer surrounded by others who do badly in exactly the same way.

  5. queensissy  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    @drjimmy11: … but he got his PhD in Biology, not writing.

  6. SuperUnison  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    @queensissy: So maybe it’s cause he’s a biologist and not a writer.

  7. axel_f  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2008

    Ath3ism for L1fe

  8. Reidicus  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    Since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better.

  9. sharky  |   Posted on Mar 27th, 2008

    Damn… jerking off on webcam joke already spoiled. damn you Jon Williams!

  10. mike a  |   Posted on Mar 26th, 2008

    Whatever. We’ve got the American Jesus.

  11. Greg Graffin writes amazing lyrics. You should really read the lyrics before you go off making dumbass assumptions.

  12. PriestSevina  |   Posted on Dec 24th, 2009

    Have you ever read the bible prophecy? Well, I don't want to trouble you, but you aren't going to make it:))) Hope you feel me.

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