Daily Archives: March 16, 2010

Christopher Hitchens: It is the height of immorality to lie to people about what you really know about death

That is, nothing. I agree with Christopher Hitchens that religion is shameless in its manipulations of death fears via the carrot and stick of heaven and hell: it really is a moral outrage. One should never claim more about death—or anything, for … Continue reading

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N.T. Wright: Reason is important BUT . . .

I’m a rational person, BUT . . . The Christian scholar N.T. Wright is very smart, yet he suggests in the video below that reason, standing alone, is inadequate to arriving at truth. He wants us to consider arriving at … Continue reading

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What Percentage of Americans Thinks the Bible is the Literal Word of God?

According to a new Pew Forum poll: 33%. And the above number really hasn’t changed all that much over the past 30 years. I read from this something important: fundamentalism, despite its clamoring presence in contemporary Republican politics, is not a … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan calls the Republican Party a fundamentalist party

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Kill Obama = Kill Health Care Reform?

The latest lovely image of Barack Obama, stepping into a coffin, the word “KILL” in large red letters alongside a caricature of his face, courtesy of some sick racist at a “Code Red” Tea Party protest in Washington, March 16, 2010:

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Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University students visit a science museum with their young earth creationist professors

This European television report on young earth creationism in the United States is truly cringe inducing. What an embarrassment. Noah’s flood was responsible for laying down the bones of the dinosaurs?! As for what expert researchers say (after painstaking peer-reviewed scientific investigation) on … Continue reading

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