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Quote: Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949)
English-American, Journalist, Author, Essayist,
Polemicist, and Outspoken Anti-theist
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly ‘holy text dictated by god’ and show that they are man-made and what you have to show is their internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority . . . it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed – some divine work, well I don’t accept the premise.
Rick Santorum: Putting Religion Over Science Isn’t Anti-Science
Maybe he’s grasping at straws in order to find something that will attract more attention and support? Hmmmm…. Straws…. Santorum… Nope, didn’t need that image in my mind. Regardless, Santorum’s position here is utter nonsense — in fact, it’s nearly as nonsensical as his denial of evolution in the first place. It is anti-science when you look around, deny the facts that science reveals, and believe instead the stories from an ancient text as if that text were a more reliable guide to geology, biology, and cosmology. Read more . . .
In Superstition We Trust
Most Of The Religious Right Are Not Stupid, Just Willfully Ignorant
The proliferation and public acceptance of willful ignorance is evident when we realize there are millions of history revisionists and creationists among us, many of who hold graduate and post-graduate degrees and occupy high-ranking positions in academia and the political arena
. . . Ultimately, it is the mind that defines our species. The ability to discern fact from fiction is what advances our society. Religious indoctrination of our educators, legislators and political leaders only serve to dilute our collective evolution as a species, stymie our collective intellectual growth and come at a great cost to our mental and physical of existence, especially in the realm of education and politics.
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Tea Baggers are Christian Theocrats
Apologists for the Tea Party like to claim that it’s a new, grass-roots movement aimed at reducing the size of government and promoting a non-partisan, American political agenda. The truth is radically different: it’s just a warmed-over version of the usual white, conservative, evangelical, Christian Right political agenda . . . The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government . . . So the primary concern of Tea Baggers is to mix religion and government — which means getting their brand of Christianity injected into government in more ways. In short, their Christian Dominionists to one extent or another. Read more . . .
100 Facts Every Atheist Teen Must Know
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Millions of taxpayer dollars used to convert soldiers and their children to Christianity
My education, health, salary, and pension are shrinking… How about we lose all of this Spiritual Fitness stuff instead? In a time when national debt is relatively common discussion, it seems that unconstitutional spending of hundreds of millions of dollars would be a natural choice for the chopping block. Read more . . .
Richard Dawkins, “Children are indoctrinated. I want to open their minds”
Dawkins continues to argue not just against faith but — as an evolutionary biologist — for inheritance, in terms of the chemical genes we are born with and the cultural “memes” that may be transmitted from generation to generation . . . “I’m very aware that people try to get their hands on children and indoctrinate them and I want to open their eyes, open their minds, show them the thrill of science — of really understanding so much of why we exist, why the universe exists, what life is .” . . . It was from his father, Dawkins says, that he learnt a “scientific attitude”. I ask him to define that. He replies: “Ceaseless questioning, scepticism, wanting to know what the evidence is, understanding what evidence means.” Read more . . .
Jacobs: “Sexual Immorality” is Like Putting the Wrong Fuel into Your Car
Always Question Authority 