Bad Religion ~ Ad Hominem

Ad Hominem



See all people in Afghanistan praying to the gods and living in the sand.
Somebody's gonna have to set them free, nobody hears the call or command.
But it's a long way to Harlem, and a long stretch to the king of Siam.
And if you don't have a penny, why should I give a damn?

Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am?
Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am.

See all the suckers in the handout line living on scraps and they don't have a dime.
Waiting for endless charity devoid of any sense of posterity.
Well there's no Great Depression and there's no Great Society.
And only few go to heaven, all the rest are damned and free.

Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am?
Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am.

I'm just a soft-cover version of a much harder tale.
A walking resemblance of ruts in the trail.
Is it possible to divide your ideas and beliefs. Ideas and beliefs.
Ideas and beliefs from the people that you don't like?

Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am?
Ad Hominem. You think you're better than I am.

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[SjoerdReligion]

@eatmeimsteak Ad hominem literally means 'to the man'.

When somebody uses an Ad Hominem argument, he uses a personal point to attack the issue. An example given by wikipedia:

"Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose, so his music was worthless."

In Holland we say 'playing on the man, instead of the ball'.

(Yes, Ad Hominem is Latin)

[eatmeimsteak]

what does ad hominem mean?

[PancakeRaab]

@valleyshrew Are you fucking kidding me? This album is genius!

[rafaoGREMISTA94]

great album,

[chillyrooster]

@valleyshrew ummm ur wrong.....read avalon agaln and tell me u can better or read wont sombod and tell me U THlNK UR BETTER!!!!!!!

[erikborgersen]

@valleyshrew Are u atheist ? No U'r not, quite sure. If U were, U'd realize this is probably one of the beast albums of BR, where they proved they're WAY over than a "punk" band and transcending this concept.

But...there's people who just want a new "No Control" or a "Suffer". C'est la vie !

[valleyshrew]

Really like the album musically, lyrically it's very disappointing. Barely a single line worth remembering, lot of redundancy. Like what's the purpose of line "But I'm not talking about that at all." It's like they wrote all the lyrics one line at a time with the main goal of finding a sentence to rhyme rather than writing something meaningful and poetic. "Won't somebody tell me what the hell went wrong We started out so strong" - Did he let a child write this? It's not what's expected from BR.

[alpinestarman1]

This song is amazing.

[FreedumbFighter28]

I feel like i am the only one who listens to this album on yer vids.....so let me say thanks if i havent already

[FollowTheProject]

But now it's time, to watch it die!