The concept of an afterlife is inhumane and immoral. Belief in the continuation of your “soul” or consciousness after death is wishful thinking. Belief in an afterlife devalues the one life that actually exists: this one.
When a woman in South Carolina congratulated him for his remarks Friday, Perry replied “Well, God is how we got here. God may have done it in the blink of the eye or he may have done it over this long period of time, I don’t know. But I know how it got started.”
It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.” Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right… So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They areoverwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blackslong before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
In a passionate rant, Gore says his opponents are a group of people, “washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There’s no longer a shared reality … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company — meaning bipartisan company — to use the goddamn word ‘climate.'”
A former Goldman Sachs VP named Peter Simonyi (who previously worked for the SEC) ended up working as a top staffer for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on the Oversight Committee under the name Peter Haller. He went on to argue against regulations on Wall Street. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
Slang words like fauxgressive can, if they take hold, affect the public conversation. Loaded with socially charged meaning, being quick and fun to use, and serving as a banner word for a social movement, these types of words have the potential to be socially influential memes.
What NOM is actually doing is attempting to compare homosexuality to pedophilia, as evidenced by the fact that Brown chose to reference the APA’s decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The comparison is nothing new for anti-gay hate groups like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, which consistently attempt to link homosexuality to pedophilia in order to depict gays and lesbians as sexual deviants.
… [T]he problem with the Tea Partiers’ claimed fealty to the Constitution is that it’s a form of religion rather than analysis. “Originalism,” Lepore writes, “looks like history, but it is not; it’s historical fundamentalism, which is to history what astrology is to astronomy, what alchemy is to chemistry, what creationism is to evolution.”
Always Question Authority 