ATHEISM: The Complete Idiots Guide to Atheism
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PHILOSOPHY: George Carlin / “The End of America and Social Stratification” / “Religion and Consumerism”
Part 1: “The End of America and Social Stratification”
Part 2: “Religion and Consumerism”
COMMUNITY ACTIVISM: Bill Moyers / “How Citizen Power Can Save a Library”
In this web-exclusive Bill Moyers Essay, Bill professes his lifelong love for libraries and their strong cultural value, and points to a crisis in public library funding across the country. But he also shares a unique and controversial community effort in Troy, Michigan that kept its library from becoming a political casualty, and serves as “a reminder of what can happen when we act together.”
Watch the full video below that explains how the Tea Party put the library in jeopardy, and how the town — with the help ad agency Leo Burnett — successfully fought back.
XENOPHOBIC BIGOTRY: Robert Reich / “Excluding Outsiders or Coming Together for the Common Good: What’s the True Meaning of Patriotism?”
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[R]egressives have no interest in preserving or protecting our system of government. To the contrary, they show every sign of wanting to be rid of it.
In fact, regressives in Congress have substituted partisanship for patriotism, placing party loyalty above loyalty to America.
The GOP’s highest-ranking member of Congress has said his “number one aim” is to unseat President Obama. For more than three years congressional Republicans have marched in lockstep, determined to do just that. They have brooked no compromise.
They couldn’t care less if they mangle our government in pursuit of their partisan aims. Senate Republicans have used the filibuster more frequently in this Congress than in any congress in history.
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So when regressives talk about “preserving and protecting” the nation, be warned: They mean securing our borders, not securing our society.
REASON: George Carlin / “On Pride”
“Once again, respectfully I say to myself, what the fuck does that mean?”
ATHEISM: “Afterlife”
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h/t: Planet Atheism
Related articles
- Can You Have a Meaningful Life Without an Afterlife? (patheos.com)
- Afterlife (thinkingenigma.wordpress.com)
- Epic video Sunday: Afterlife (onefuriousllama.com)
MISOGYNISTIC BIGOTRY: Thom Hartmann / “The Defenders of Patriarchy at it again . . . ”
“I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but no means no.”
~ Rep Lisa Brown (D)
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Thom Hartmann / “School & Religious Freedom Dying in Louisiana”
REASON: Lawrence Krauss / “Reality is Liberating”
h/t: Planet Atheism
EVOLUTION: Richard Dawkins / “Your 185 Millionth Great Grandfather Was A Fish”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: helen sotiriadis
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