George Carlin: Religion is Bullshit
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Article: “Religion & Income Inequality”
One of the few things that major religions like Christianity and Islam have going for them is the emphasis on charity and helping the poor. Facts on the ground, however, indicate that increased religiosity — i.e., increased rates of Christian and Muslim belief — correlate with worse living conditions for the poor. Increased atheism and less religion, in contrast, correlate with better living conditions — and those conditions are “better” both because there are fewer people who are poor and because those with less income are better able to make their own decisions about how to lead their lives.
Article: “State Audit Confirms Milwaukee Voucher Schools Score No Better”
Yet more empirical evidence that private/religious schools perform no better than public schools. Private school vouchers are little more than another private sector scheme to transfer public funds into private coffers. [MSH]
[S]tudents in Milwaukee using vouchers to attend private and religious schools perform no better on standardized tests than their counterparts in public schools.
Video: “Rick Perry Faces Question About Evolution”
Quote: Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.
Video: “UNGODLY DISCIPLINE: White Couple Adopted Two Black Daughters, Then Beat Them To Death!”
Article/Audio: “Santorum: Same-Sex Marriage Helped Destroy The Economy”
If you think that we can be a society that kills our own, and that disregards the family and the important role it plays, and doesn’t teach moral values and the important role of faith in the public square, and then expect people to be good, decent and moral when they behave economically, if you look at the root cause of the economic problems that we’re dealing with on Wall Street and Main Street I might add, from 2008, they were huge moral failings.
Video: “Jackson: Jesus Came To Take Over”
Article/Video: “Must-Reads: The Late, Great Molly Ivins on Rick Perry”
As Texas Gov. Rick Perry embarks on his Obama-bashing, evangelical-courting, tea party-outdoingcampaign for the presidency, we miss Molly Ivins more than ever. The late and celebrated liberal columnist was known as a writer of sparkling political commentary infused with a trenchant wit and copious shots of zero-bullshit humor. She was the consummate Texan, a ferocious populist critic of the American right-wing, and a sorely missed Mother Jones contributor.
Aphorism: On Typical Military Personalities
By Madison S. Hughes (09.24.2008)
After twenty-three years of military service in the U.S. Army, I realized that I just got tired of being around so many closed-minded, fascist, obnoxious, xenophobic, misogynistic, overconfident, arrogant, anti-intellectual, bigoted, Conservative, self-righteous, jingoistic, militaristic, redneck Republicans that thump the bible and drape themselves in the flag. I could go on, but life is too short.
