I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

We should enjoy and make the most of life

It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.