PROGRESSIVISM: Robert Reich / “What’s at Stake in the 2012 Election”
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Category Archives: Humanities
RELIGIOUS SATIRICAL POETRY: Bill Moyers / “The Poetry of Philip Appleman” / VIDEO
Bill talks with and invites readings by renowned poet, novelist, and editor Philip Appleman, whose creativity spans a long life filled with verse, fiction, philosophy, and religion. The author of nine books of poetry, three novels, and six volumes of non-fiction, Appleman’s most acclaimed work includes explorations of the life and theories of Charles Darwin. A scholar of Darwin, Appleman edited the critical anthology Darwin, and wrote the poetry books Darwin’s Ark and Darwin’s Bestiary, earning him praise for illuminating the “overwhelming sanity” of Darwin’s thought with clarity and wit. Appleman’s latest poetry collection is Perfidious Proverbs.
ATHEIST HUMOR: Jim Jefferies / “On Religion”
ASTROPHYSICS / PHILOSOPHY: Neil deGrasse Tyson / “A Fascinatingly Disturbing Thought”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: Our Daily Train
SEXUAL PSYCHOLOGY: Zinnia Jones / “The Assumed Primacy of Penis-in-Vagina Sex”
“The narrow focus on [Penis-in-Vagina Sex] PIV is largely responsible for the idea that oral and anal sex are “not really sex”, which is both a dangerous misconception, and sometimes an act of strategic ignorance within an obsolete value system. It also serves as a focal point for the concept of “virginity”, a model which fails to describe sexual experience in any meaningful way despite supposedly existing for this purpose, and instead functions to define a woman’s worth by the history of her vagina.”
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- Hard Penis Not Required (psychologytoday.com)
LOGIC: “The Burden of Proof”
RELIGIOUS SATIRE: “Catholic Priest Child Rapist”
CATHOLIC CHURCH & CHILD RAPE: “Priest’s Bid to Leave Jail is Rejected”
PHILADELPHIA — Msgr. William J. Lynn, a senior official in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia convicted last month of endangering children, must stay in jail until his sentencing, a judge determined on Thursday.
Judge M. Teresa Sarmina denied Monsignor Lynn’s request for house arrest, saying that he should not be given special treatment and essentially agreeing with prosecutors who said that others convicted of a similar felony would not be allowed to remain at home pending a sentencing hearing.
Monsignor Lynn, 61, is the first high-ranking official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of covering up sexual abuse by priests under his supervision. He faces up to seven years in prison.
Related articles
- CATHOLIC CHURCH & CHILD RAPE: U.S. Catholic Priest Found Guilty in Child Abuse Case (alwaysquestionauthority.com)
- Lynn stays in jail but gets sentencing hearing advanced (philly.com)
- Convicted Catholic Monsignor A Flight Risk, Remains Behind Bars (lezgetreal.com)
RELIGIOUS PARODY: CERN-Day School
h/t: Planet Atheism
CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE: “Louisiana Revelation: School Voucher Funding – It’s Not Just For Christians Any More”
A member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who eagerly supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to fund private schools has had an epiphany: Muslim schools might start getting taxpayer money!
Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes she hadn’t voted for the Jindal voucher bill.
“I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools,” Hodges told theLivingston Parish News.
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Where to begin? Hodges’ bigotry is perhaps only rivaled by her ignorance of constitutional and legal principles. Of course Muslim schools will qualify for funding under a voucher plan. When programs like this are set up that dole out benefits to religious schools, the government can’t play favorites. That’s basic.
Related articles
- Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones (patheos.com)
- Louisiana Revelation: School voucher funding isn’t just for Christians? (secularnewsdaily.com)
- ‘Religion’ is not a synonym for ‘Christianity’ – The Wild Hunt (patheos.com)
- ‘Muddying up the narrative’ on vouchers (maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com)
