Video: “Seth Macfarlane on Atheism and Gay Rights”
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Daily Archives: 08.16.2011
John Lennon, “Imagine”
Video: “Christianity in a Nutshell”
Video: “Dan Barker & Tony Perkins Debate on ‘Faux Noise'”
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Video: “Don’t Say Molly Didn’t Warn You!”
The next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be President of the United States, please, pay attention.
~ Molly Ivins
Art: “Republican Politician Speaking”
Article: “Bad Choice: Ohio Official Drops Creationism Crusade – And Takes Up School Vouchers”
By Joseph L. Conn, Director of Communications of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Parents were upset that their children might be taught religion in science class. And civil liberties activists noted that the courts have declared “intelligent design” to be a religious concept and barred it from public school biology classes as a violation of church-state separation.
Blog Post: “Georgia Public School District: Students Must Have ‘Respect for the Creator’”
Book Excerpt: Penn Jillette, “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”
Where is the humility in being a theist? There is none. What would it mean for me to believe in god? It would mean that I know. Not just that I might happen to know about Kerouac, Thailand, liquid nitrogen, and vector calculus identities, but that I know that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent power in the universe that I can’t prove to you, but that I know because I have faith. I know because I say I know. I can feel it.
Atricle: “Does Secularism Make People More Ethical?”
Non-believers are often more educated, more tolerant and know more about God than the pious […] Secularists make up some 15 percent of the global population, or about 1 billion people. As a group, this puts them third in size behind Christians (2.3 billion) and Muslims (1.6 billion). Churches in the US are losing up to 1 million members every year. In Europe, secularization has advanced even further.
Always Question Authority 