Bad Religion or Philosophy?

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A simple time-killing test to see if you can tell the difference between Bad Religion’s generally brainy lyrics and the writings of great continental philosophers. Answers after the jump.

1. “And as the people bend, the moral fabric dies.”

2. “We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty.”

3. “Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.”

4. “No progress ever came from war, only a false sense of increase.”

5. “What’s time but a thing to kill or keep or buy or lose or live in?”

6. “Out of love, God becomes man.”

7. “Is there anyone who lives a painless life? If there is, show me so.”

8. “Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?”

ANSWERS:

1. Bad Religion

2. Albert Camus

3. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

4. Bad Religion

5. Bad Religion

6. Kierkegaard

7. Bad Religion

8. Jean-Paul Sarte

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published: February 3, 2010

in column: What Goes On

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