POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 8, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
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Category Archives: Critical Thinking
ATHEISM: “How Atheist Values Help Correct Religion’s Mistakes” / Big Think / Rob Bell ☮
Spiritual teacher Rob Bell believes that atheism is eroding certain religious teachings, and it’s a good thing. Bell’s latest book is “How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living.”
DRUG LAWS: “How Many Countries Still Execute People for ‘Drug Offenses’?” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Indonesia executed four convicted drug offenders by firing squad early Friday, the country’s deputy attorney general said.
REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK: “Cowardly Republicans Have Allowed ‘Hate’ to Become Their Brand” / The Pap Attack / Mike Papantonio ☮
Republicans are acting like they suddenly care about the racism and hatred that is coming out of their presidential nominee, but those things never bothered them when they came out of the mouths of people like John McCain, Ann Coulter, or Sean Hannity.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 5, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “The Good, The Bad and the Very, Very Unasinously Ugly!” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮
Hint – The very, very ugly! Clint Eastwood. The man who played Dirty Harry has mostly laid low since his bizarre dialogue with an empty chair during the 2012 convention – but he made it clear that he’s still trying to be America’s racist grandpa – find out how.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Is Capitalism Terrorism Against All Humanity?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮
Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph, joins Thom. The Pope told reporters “Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person. This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity.” The Pope was responding question about the link between Islam and terrorism – which the Pope doesn’t think is particular to Islam. He told the reporters – “It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic. If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. In almost all religions there is always a small group of fundamentalists. One can kill with the tongue as well as the knife.”
CRITICAL THINKING: “What Should We Think About Death?” / Stephen Fry ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 4, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
BOOKS: “Thirteen Books Atheists Should Consider Reading” / Atheist Republic ☮
These are not books debunking creationism, nor an item-by-item critique of the factual plausibility of holy writings, nor a demonstration of their historic shortcomings when compared to current notions of progressive humanist morality, nor are they an overt attack against religion. Since you are already an atheist, I assume you don’t need convincing anymore. Rather, they are about understanding your world and yourself without religion. These ideas are not new. Generally speaking, they are not trying to convince the reader. They are proposals for a different way of understanding reality without a god, logic, ethics, morality and yourself – perhaps the hardest thing to objectively fully understand in life.
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