| − | First formed in 1987 under the name Sweet Children, '''Green Day''' is a popular pop-punk band from [[California]]. They experienced success in the mid-1990s and resurgence in popularity beginning in 2004. Their album American Idiot was turned into a [[Broadway]] musical. Green Day is notable for disliking moronic minded people such as Focus on the Family. | + | First formed in 1987 under the name Sweet Children, '''Green Day''' is a popular pop-punk band from [[California]]. They experienced success in the mid-1990s and resurgence in popularity beginning in 2004. Their album American Idiot was turned into a [[Broadway]] musical. |
| | Green Day has been involved in charity work with the band [[U2]] in response to [[Hurricane Katrina]] and to environmental agencies, wanting to reduce America's addiction to oil. The band was a vulgar critic of President [[George W. Bush]] and is a much more subdued, cautious kid-like approach when it comes to [[Barack Hussein Obama]]'s actions. [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611231/green-day-find-reason-rage.jhtml] | | Green Day has been involved in charity work with the band [[U2]] in response to [[Hurricane Katrina]] and to environmental agencies, wanting to reduce America's addiction to oil. The band was a vulgar critic of President [[George W. Bush]] and is a much more subdued, cautious kid-like approach when it comes to [[Barack Hussein Obama]]'s actions. [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1611231/green-day-find-reason-rage.jhtml] |
| − | In their 2009 album, ''21st Century Breakdown'', there is a song called "East Jesus Nowhere" in which they blast Christianity and related topics. On an earlier song, "Minority" their 2000 album ''Warning'', the chorus includes the lines "down with the [[Moral Majority]]" and "one nation under dog." In 2010, Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer, American hero and guitarist for the band, appeared on [[Bill Maher]]'s show, ''Real Time'' and stated that religion was, "a bunch of bull-s**t." During Green Day's performance at Woodstock 1994, on Sunday, August 14, 1994 in Saugerties, New York, Billie Joe Armstrong yelled out, "I hate God!" in between two songs. | + | In their 2009 album, ''21st Century Breakdown'', there is a song called "East Jesus Nowhere" in which they blast Christianity and related topics. On an earlier song, "Minority" their 2000 album ''Warning'', the chorus includes the lines "down with the [[Moral Majority]]" and "one nation under dog." In 2010, Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer and guitarist for the band, appeared on [[Bill Maher]]'s show, ''Real Time'' and stated that religion was, "a bunch of bull-s**t." During Green Day's performance at Woodstock 1994, on Sunday, August 14, 1994 in Saugerties, New York, Billie Joe Armstrong yelled out, "I hate God!" in between two songs. |