“The devil put dinosaurs here
Jesus don't like a queer
The devil put dinosaurs here
No problem with faith just fear”
Sean Kinney and Jerry Cantrell talk about how “Theres no probelem with religion, but that some things arent working out.” when explaining their song, and album title “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here” According to Cantrell, the album title refers to the hypocrisy within organized religion, with "overwhelming evidence that things aren’t working right now. We need to start growing up as people. When you’re teaching people that being gay is a mortal sin, yet a good portion of the people teaching this are f*cking adults, there’s a huge problem".
For the lyrics, Jerry Cantrell stated: "The devil put dinosaurs here / Jesus don't like a queer / No problem with faith / Just fear," which appear in the title track. "What's the old joke?" Cantrell said. "There are two things you never want to get into a conversation or argument about: politics and religion. But fuck, I guess we're going to be talking about this for awhile. If a religion is teaching you that it's OK to hurt somebody, exclude somebody, dominate somebody – I have a problem with it. Its just the lamer parts of how those things are taught and the shitty things we do to each other because of our different beliefs."