Annie Laurie Gaylor & Dan Barker from Freedom From Religion Foundation interviews Penn Jillette, Author of "God, No!"
FFRF Interviews Penn Jillette (Part 1 of 2)
FFRF Interviews Penn Jillette (Part 2 of 2)
Freethought Radio, FFRF, October 1, 2011
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Morality in the bible: Not-so-good books
Second part of series on morality. See below for bible references included in this video.
Death for victimless 'crime'
Yahweh requires death of sabbath workers
(Numbers 15 : 32-36)
Yahweh requires death of gay people:
(Leviticus 20 : 13)
Yahweh requires death of women who can't show virginity on wedding night:
(Deuteronomy 22 : 20-21)
Unaccountable slaughter
Yahweh kills 70,000 for David's census:
(2 Samuel 24 : 1-15)
Yahweh kills almost all land animals for human wickedness:
(Genesis 6 : 5-7)
Entrapment through mind-control
Yahweh hardens Pharaoh's heart:
(Exodus 4 : 21; see also Exodus 7 : 3; 9 : 12; 10 : 1; 10 : 20; 10 : 27; 11 : 10; 14 : 4; 14 : 8)
Yahweh hardens Egyptians' hearts:
(Exodus 14 : 17)
Yahweh hardens King of Heshbon's heart:
(Deuteronomy 2 : 30)
Yahweh sends powerful delusion:
(2 Thessalonians 2 : 11)
Yahweh deceives prophets, then punishes them:
(Ezekiel 14 : 9)
Punishment for others' sins
Yahweh says children won't die for fathers:
(Deuteronomy 24 : 16)
Yahweh requires children's death for their father's sins:
(Isaiah 14 : 21-22)
Yahweh orders the killing of Amalekite children and babies:
(I Samuel 15 : 2-3)
Yahweh orders the killing children without pity:
(Ezekiel 9 : 5-6)
Familial cannibalism:
(Jeremiah 19 : 9)
(Deuteronomy 28 : 53)
(Ezekiel 5 : 10)
Yahweh permits rape:
(Zechariah 14 : 2)
Yahweh permits slavery (the owning of people as property):
(Leviticus 25 : 46)
Yahweh permits (commits) mass murder:
(Exodus 12 : 29)
Jesus reinforces OT law:
"But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
(Matthew 15 : 3-4)
Jesus punishes a fig tree:
(Mark 11 : 12-4, 20-4)
(Matthew 21 : 18-22)
Jesus asks us to dispose of family relationships
(Luke 9 : 61-62)
Making of images forbidden:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
(Exodus 20 : 4)
Making of images commanded:
"And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold"
(Exodus 25 : 18)
Certain sinners to be stoned to death by all the men of the town:
(Deuteronomy 21 : 21)
Only the sinless are fit to cast the first stone:
(John 8 : 7)
We are all sinners:
(Romans 3 : 23)
Good deeds are to be shown:
(Matthew 5 : 16)
Good deeds are not to be shown:
(Matthew 6 : 1)
Gay sex deemed a sin:
(Leviticus 18 : 22)
Non-believers to be put to death:
(2 Chronicles 15 : 13)
We are to seek peace:
(Psalms 34 : 14)
We are to be good neighbours:
(Philippians 2 : 4)
Death for victimless 'crime'
Yahweh requires death of sabbath workers
(Numbers 15 : 32-36)
Yahweh requires death of gay people:
(Leviticus 20 : 13)
Yahweh requires death of women who can't show virginity on wedding night:
(Deuteronomy 22 : 20-21)
Unaccountable slaughter
Yahweh kills 70,000 for David's census:
(2 Samuel 24 : 1-15)
Yahweh kills almost all land animals for human wickedness:
(Genesis 6 : 5-7)
Entrapment through mind-control
Yahweh hardens Pharaoh's heart:
(Exodus 4 : 21; see also Exodus 7 : 3; 9 : 12; 10 : 1; 10 : 20; 10 : 27; 11 : 10; 14 : 4; 14 : 8)
Yahweh hardens Egyptians' hearts:
(Exodus 14 : 17)
Yahweh hardens King of Heshbon's heart:
(Deuteronomy 2 : 30)
Yahweh sends powerful delusion:
(2 Thessalonians 2 : 11)
Yahweh deceives prophets, then punishes them:
(Ezekiel 14 : 9)
Punishment for others' sins
Yahweh says children won't die for fathers:
(Deuteronomy 24 : 16)
Yahweh requires children's death for their father's sins:
(Isaiah 14 : 21-22)
Yahweh orders the killing of Amalekite children and babies:
(I Samuel 15 : 2-3)
Yahweh orders the killing children without pity:
(Ezekiel 9 : 5-6)
Familial cannibalism:
(Jeremiah 19 : 9)
(Deuteronomy 28 : 53)
(Ezekiel 5 : 10)
Yahweh permits rape:
(Zechariah 14 : 2)
Yahweh permits slavery (the owning of people as property):
(Leviticus 25 : 46)
Yahweh permits (commits) mass murder:
(Exodus 12 : 29)
Jesus reinforces OT law:
"But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
(Matthew 15 : 3-4)
Jesus punishes a fig tree:
(Mark 11 : 12-4, 20-4)
(Matthew 21 : 18-22)
Jesus asks us to dispose of family relationships
(Luke 9 : 61-62)
Making of images forbidden:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
(Exodus 20 : 4)
Making of images commanded:
"And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold"
(Exodus 25 : 18)
Certain sinners to be stoned to death by all the men of the town:
(Deuteronomy 21 : 21)
Only the sinless are fit to cast the first stone:
(John 8 : 7)
We are all sinners:
(Romans 3 : 23)
Good deeds are to be shown:
(Matthew 5 : 16)
Good deeds are not to be shown:
(Matthew 6 : 1)
Gay sex deemed a sin:
(Leviticus 18 : 22)
Non-believers to be put to death:
(2 Chronicles 15 : 13)
We are to seek peace:
(Psalms 34 : 14)
We are to be good neighbours:
(Philippians 2 : 4)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A.C. Grayling on his 'Secular Bible'
Interview with A.C. Grayling about his book "The Good Book: A Secular Bible"
A.C. Grayling on Night Waves (BBC 3 RADIO)
A.C. Grayling on Night Waves (BBC 3 RADIO)
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Mark Twain's full Autobiography to be Unveiled
Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the soon-to-be-published manuscripts.
Transcript
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, the story behind a 100-year-wait for an autobiography by one of America's most famous writers.
"NewsHour" correspondent Spencer Michels explains.
SPENCER MICHELS: Behind a decorative gate and a security checkpoint in Berkeley, California, and through an unmarked locked door in the Bancroft Library lies a remarkable and valuable collection of letters, documents and writings that describe the life and passions of Mark Twain, perhaps America's greatest and funniest writer.
This rare and damaged film of Twain late in his life is part of the archive, as are early copies of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer," regarded as monumental American novels. Overseeing the vault, as the room is sometimes called, is Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project, which, this year, 2010, is finally publishing, along with the University of California Press, Twain's uncensored autobiography -- finally because Twain decreed that this document not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death, which took place in 1910, when he was 75.
ROBERT HIRST, general editor, Mark Twain Project: Most people don't have the nerve to speak exactly what they believe while they're alive, because of the repercussions. People will shun them. He says: I'm only human. I don't want to be shunned. I don't want to be thought ill of, and, therefore, I'm willing to write this down and put it on paper and leave it behind.
SPENCER MICHELS: Working with numerous copies and corrections, the editors at first thought the autobiography was unfinished and random. But, after six years, they figured out Twain's had produced a complete, provocative document.
ROBERT HIRST: Even for us, who have had access to it without restriction, seeing the way he wants to arrange it, seeing the way he wants to put the parts together is a -- is brand-new to us. And I think -- I can't help feeling that it will be brand-new and interesting to the world.
SPENCER MICHELS: Samuel Clemens, Twain's real name, grew up in Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi, stomping grounds for the fictional Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. He left school for good at 11, and later became a pilot on riverboats, also material for later works.
Out West, during the gold and silver rushes, he worked at newspapers in Nevada and California, and started his literary career. He was a traveling man and wrote about trips to Europe and the Holy Land and to the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii.
He wrote voluminously, continuously. But, for his autobiography, composed during the last few years of his life, rather than write it, he dictated it to a stenographer.
ROBERT HIRST: She's not only accurate. As Clemens says, she's a good audience, very important to Mark Twain, to have someone there reacting to what he says, laughing, I presume, at what he says, or at least extolling it in some way.
SPENCER MICHELS: In one revelatory passage, Twain describes how he overcame writer's block while working on "Tom Sawyer."
ROBERT HIRST: "For I knew quite well the tale was not finished, and I could not understand why I was not able to go on with it. The reason was very simple. My tank had run dry. It was empty. When the manuscript had lain in a pigeonhole two years, I took it out one day.
"And it was then that I made the great discovery that, when the tank runs dry, you've only to leave it alone, and it will fill up again in the time while you were asleep, also while you were at work on other things and are quite unaware that this unconscious and profitable cerebration is going on. There was plenty of material now, and the book went on and finished itself without any trouble."
That is a method he goes on to apply to every book that he writes.
SPENCER MICHELS: The autobiography, along with nearly a million pages of other material penned by Twain, including letters and notebooks, have been housed on the University of California, Berkeley, campus since 1949.
That's when Twain's only surviving daughter, Clara, decreed in her will that the papers go to Berkeley, where one of Twain's biographers was teaching.
Since Twain's death, four different editors have taken a stab at publishing portions of his biography, despite Twain's wishes to wait 100 years. But the project at Berkeley, a team of editors working from the original manuscript, will mark the first time the entire document is published, including controversial parts.
Harriet Elinor Smith is the official editor of the autobiography. She's been working here for more than 30 years. And she says that among the writings Twain wanted to suppress was his somewhat shocking view of Christianity.
HARRIET ELINOR SMITH, editor, "Autobiography of Mark Twain": There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled."
That would have been considered very shocking in his day.
SPENCER MICHELS: Editor Ben Griffin, who joined the Twain Project five years ago, relates another jolting passage, where Twain took out his anger on an entrepreneur named James Paige, who lost him money.
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, editor, "Autobiography of Mark Twain": This is the end of the piece he wrote about Paige.
"Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms, and yet he knows perfectly well that, if I had his nuts in a steel trap, I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap until he died."
SPENCER MICHELS: That's pretty vicious.
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN: He used the autobiography as a chance to disburden himself of a lot of feeling. He left this out of the final version of the autobiography.
SPENCER MICHELS: But you are putting it in?
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN: We're including it in a section of the earlier shots he took at writing an autobiography.
SPENCER MICHELS: The autobiography does include social and political material Twain thought too hot for the times, like these remarks about President Theodore Roosevelt's role in the massacre of Filipino guerrillas after the Spanish-American War.
ROBERT HIRST: "He knew perfectly well that to pen 600 helpless and weaponless savages in a hole like rats in a trap and massacre them in detail during a stretch of a day-and-a-half from a safe position on the heights above was no brilliant feat of arms. He knew perfectly well that our uniformed assassins had not upheld the honor of the American flag."
SPENCER MICHELS: While he could rant on social issues like imperialism, letters he wrote indicated that Twain still pulled his punches on what he would reveal, even a century hence.
HARRIET ELINOR SMITH: He struggled very much with the idea of self-revelation, his own self-accusations, the guilt that he felt. Part of him wanted to reveal all, and part of him was really never able to speak the truth, as he called it.
SPENCER MICHELS: For Shelley Fishkin, an English professor at Stanford and a Twain scholar who has edited many of his works, the autobiography Twain's stature as an American original.
SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN, professor, Stanford University: He always viewed himself as a moralist in disguise, as he once put it. He's always helping people look at themselves, look at their flaws, but not judging them in a way that exempts himself. He's always a part of the human comedy that he's portraying. And he's not presenting himself as superior to the rest of us. He's criticizing all of us, including himself.
SPENCER MICHELS: The release of Mark Twain's autobiography should cast new light on Twain's role and on his life and thoughts. The first of three large volumes will be released in November 2010.
Mark Twain: There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.
Transcript
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, the story behind a 100-year-wait for an autobiography by one of America's most famous writers.
"NewsHour" correspondent Spencer Michels explains.
SPENCER MICHELS: Behind a decorative gate and a security checkpoint in Berkeley, California, and through an unmarked locked door in the Bancroft Library lies a remarkable and valuable collection of letters, documents and writings that describe the life and passions of Mark Twain, perhaps America's greatest and funniest writer.
This rare and damaged film of Twain late in his life is part of the archive, as are early copies of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer," regarded as monumental American novels. Overseeing the vault, as the room is sometimes called, is Robert Hirst, general editor of the Mark Twain Project, which, this year, 2010, is finally publishing, along with the University of California Press, Twain's uncensored autobiography -- finally because Twain decreed that this document not be published in its entirety until 100 years after his death, which took place in 1910, when he was 75.
ROBERT HIRST, general editor, Mark Twain Project: Most people don't have the nerve to speak exactly what they believe while they're alive, because of the repercussions. People will shun them. He says: I'm only human. I don't want to be shunned. I don't want to be thought ill of, and, therefore, I'm willing to write this down and put it on paper and leave it behind.
SPENCER MICHELS: Working with numerous copies and corrections, the editors at first thought the autobiography was unfinished and random. But, after six years, they figured out Twain's had produced a complete, provocative document.
ROBERT HIRST: Even for us, who have had access to it without restriction, seeing the way he wants to arrange it, seeing the way he wants to put the parts together is a -- is brand-new to us. And I think -- I can't help feeling that it will be brand-new and interesting to the world.
SPENCER MICHELS: Samuel Clemens, Twain's real name, grew up in Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi, stomping grounds for the fictional Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. He left school for good at 11, and later became a pilot on riverboats, also material for later works.
Out West, during the gold and silver rushes, he worked at newspapers in Nevada and California, and started his literary career. He was a traveling man and wrote about trips to Europe and the Holy Land and to the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii.
He wrote voluminously, continuously. But, for his autobiography, composed during the last few years of his life, rather than write it, he dictated it to a stenographer.
ROBERT HIRST: She's not only accurate. As Clemens says, she's a good audience, very important to Mark Twain, to have someone there reacting to what he says, laughing, I presume, at what he says, or at least extolling it in some way.
SPENCER MICHELS: In one revelatory passage, Twain describes how he overcame writer's block while working on "Tom Sawyer."
ROBERT HIRST: "For I knew quite well the tale was not finished, and I could not understand why I was not able to go on with it. The reason was very simple. My tank had run dry. It was empty. When the manuscript had lain in a pigeonhole two years, I took it out one day.
"And it was then that I made the great discovery that, when the tank runs dry, you've only to leave it alone, and it will fill up again in the time while you were asleep, also while you were at work on other things and are quite unaware that this unconscious and profitable cerebration is going on. There was plenty of material now, and the book went on and finished itself without any trouble."
That is a method he goes on to apply to every book that he writes.
SPENCER MICHELS: The autobiography, along with nearly a million pages of other material penned by Twain, including letters and notebooks, have been housed on the University of California, Berkeley, campus since 1949.
That's when Twain's only surviving daughter, Clara, decreed in her will that the papers go to Berkeley, where one of Twain's biographers was teaching.
Since Twain's death, four different editors have taken a stab at publishing portions of his biography, despite Twain's wishes to wait 100 years. But the project at Berkeley, a team of editors working from the original manuscript, will mark the first time the entire document is published, including controversial parts.
Harriet Elinor Smith is the official editor of the autobiography. She's been working here for more than 30 years. And she says that among the writings Twain wanted to suppress was his somewhat shocking view of Christianity.
HARRIET ELINOR SMITH, editor, "Autobiography of Mark Twain": There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled."
That would have been considered very shocking in his day.
SPENCER MICHELS: Editor Ben Griffin, who joined the Twain Project five years ago, relates another jolting passage, where Twain took out his anger on an entrepreneur named James Paige, who lost him money.
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, editor, "Autobiography of Mark Twain": This is the end of the piece he wrote about Paige.
"Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms, and yet he knows perfectly well that, if I had his nuts in a steel trap, I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap until he died."
SPENCER MICHELS: That's pretty vicious.
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN: He used the autobiography as a chance to disburden himself of a lot of feeling. He left this out of the final version of the autobiography.
SPENCER MICHELS: But you are putting it in?
BENJAMIN GRIFFIN: We're including it in a section of the earlier shots he took at writing an autobiography.
SPENCER MICHELS: The autobiography does include social and political material Twain thought too hot for the times, like these remarks about President Theodore Roosevelt's role in the massacre of Filipino guerrillas after the Spanish-American War.
ROBERT HIRST: "He knew perfectly well that to pen 600 helpless and weaponless savages in a hole like rats in a trap and massacre them in detail during a stretch of a day-and-a-half from a safe position on the heights above was no brilliant feat of arms. He knew perfectly well that our uniformed assassins had not upheld the honor of the American flag."
SPENCER MICHELS: While he could rant on social issues like imperialism, letters he wrote indicated that Twain still pulled his punches on what he would reveal, even a century hence.
HARRIET ELINOR SMITH: He struggled very much with the idea of self-revelation, his own self-accusations, the guilt that he felt. Part of him wanted to reveal all, and part of him was really never able to speak the truth, as he called it.
SPENCER MICHELS: For Shelley Fishkin, an English professor at Stanford and a Twain scholar who has edited many of his works, the autobiography Twain's stature as an American original.
SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN, professor, Stanford University: He always viewed himself as a moralist in disguise, as he once put it. He's always helping people look at themselves, look at their flaws, but not judging them in a way that exempts himself. He's always a part of the human comedy that he's portraying. And he's not presenting himself as superior to the rest of us. He's criticizing all of us, including himself.
SPENCER MICHELS: The release of Mark Twain's autobiography should cast new light on Twain's role and on his life and thoughts. The first of three large volumes will be released in November 2010.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
"Books of Our Time" indepth interview with author Harvey J. Kaye of "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America"
Playtime: 1:00:33
Playtime: 1:00:33
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
How go get a free bible
Here is what to do, if you need a free copy of the holy bible.
Ask your local church
Ask the Hotel to keep the bible/New Testament from your hotel room
Send an e-mail request to the Free Bible Society.
In USA:
Request a free copy of the Holy Bible from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by mail.
Outside USA:
LeSEA Broadcasting will send a free bible (King James version) if you live outside the U.S.
Ask your local church
Ask the Hotel to keep the bible/New Testament from your hotel room
Send an e-mail request to the Free Bible Society.
In USA:
Request a free copy of the Holy Bible from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by mail.
Outside USA:
LeSEA Broadcasting will send a free bible (King James version) if you live outside the U.S.
Read the Bible because we need more atheists, and nothing will get you there faster, than reading the holy Bible
quote by Penn Jillette
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Think Rationally
Here is a short commercial demonstrating the futility of searching for ALL of life’s answers in an arcane text.
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At the end of the video, a suggestion is made as to what should be done with said text.
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At the end of the video, a suggestion is made as to what should be done with said text.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
New Novel about the New Atheism: Rebecca Goldstein's, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God.
"So extravagantly witty and smart that it's making everything else I've read recently seem drab."
-Ron Charles, Senior Editor at the Washington Post Book Review
"Comic and supremely witty, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is both a satire of the academic world and a feast of philosophical and religious ideas."
-Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams
"You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith itself that consists of nothing. Rebecca Goldstein, on the other hand, is quite something."
-Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great
"Rebecca Newberger Goldstein does it all. She has written a hilarious novel about people's existential agonies, a page-turner about the intellectual mysteries that obsess them. The characters in 36 Arguments For the Existence of God explore the great moral issues of our day in a novel that is deeply moving and a joy to read."
-Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
"So extravagantly witty and smart that it's making everything else I've read recently seem drab."
-Ron Charles, Senior Editor at the Washington Post Book Review
"Comic and supremely witty, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God is both a satire of the academic world and a feast of philosophical and religious ideas."
-Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams
"You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith itself that consists of nothing. Rebecca Goldstein, on the other hand, is quite something."
-Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great
"Rebecca Newberger Goldstein does it all. She has written a hilarious novel about people's existential agonies, a page-turner about the intellectual mysteries that obsess them. The characters in 36 Arguments For the Existence of God explore the great moral issues of our day in a novel that is deeply moving and a joy to read."
-Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
God in the White House - Daily Show
Randall Balmer has written the book "God in the White House" and believes Obama embraces faith in a different way than George W. Bush.
Randall Balmer believes an atheist is the last minoriy to enter the White House. After a Hispanic, Gay and Jew.
Aired on Comedy Central February 5, 2009
Randall Balmer believes an atheist is the last minoriy to enter the White House. After a Hispanic, Gay and Jew.
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Aired on Comedy Central February 5, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
The Dead Sea Scrolls
BBC documentary from 2006.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Burn Those Evil Science Books!
Project 912 Glenn Beck Tea Party
The transcript:
Woman: [Shouts] “Burn the books!” [applause]
…
Man: “I don’t think you were serious about that, were you?”
Woman: “I am too.”
Man: “Burn all the books?!”
Woman: “The ones in college, those, those brainwashing books.”
Man: “[laughs] Brainwashing books?”
Woman: “Yes.”
Man: “Which ones are those?”
Woman: “Like, the evolution crap, and, yeah…”
The transcript:
Woman: [Shouts] “Burn the books!” [applause]
…
Man: “I don’t think you were serious about that, were you?”
Woman: “I am too.”
Man: “Burn all the books?!”
Woman: “The ones in college, those, those brainwashing books.”
Man: “[laughs] Brainwashing books?”
Woman: “Yes.”
Man: “Which ones are those?”
Woman: “Like, the evolution crap, and, yeah…”
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Skepticism and Children's Books
Tracie talks about skepticism and children's books in the Atheist Experience #548 from April 13, 2008. (This is one year old).
Airtime: 1:27:51 - you can skip the first 11:20 min.
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.
Airtime: 1:27:51 - you can skip the first 11:20 min.
The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Richard Dawkins Confronts Skeptical High School Student About Evolution
In this clip titled 'The Unteachables', Richard Dawkins confronts a sketpical high school student of evolution on why he believes holy books above all others.
UK TV Only: Richard Dawkins examines the legacy of Charles Darwin. The three part programme will be broadcast on Channel Four at 8 pm on Monday 4th, Monday 11th and Monday 18th August. This is the third program by the same team that created 'Root of All Evil?' and 'The Enemies of Reason'.
UK TV Only: Richard Dawkins examines the legacy of Charles Darwin. The three part programme will be broadcast on Channel Four at 8 pm on Monday 4th, Monday 11th and Monday 18th August. This is the third program by the same team that created 'Root of All Evil?' and 'The Enemies of Reason'.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sam Harris: Holy Scriptures lose against Modernity
Sam Harris talks about how our modern understanding of the world has forced religions to change.
BBC News Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
Washington Post Isolation Defined Cho's Senior Year
Sam Harris: Holy Scriptures lose against Modernity
BBC News Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts
Washington Post Isolation Defined Cho's Senior Year
Sam Harris: Holy Scriptures lose against Modernity
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Westboro Baptist Church - documentary (crazy Christians)
The Westboro Baptist Church, who hates soldiers and pickets soldiers' funerals. They also hate fags, which, by their definition, is anybody who isnt one man and one woman.
The Westboro Baptist Church (yet another grounp of crazy Christians) is from Kansas.
Signs used by The Westboro Baptist Church:
"Thank God For Dead Soldiers"
"God Hates Fags"
"God hates the USA"
"Thank God for 9/11"
"Fags eats poop"
"Don't worship the dead" - these Christians may have forgotten Jesus is dead
Documentary by BBC Two
The Westboro Baptist Church (yet another grounp of crazy Christians) is from Kansas.
Signs used by The Westboro Baptist Church:
"Thank God For Dead Soldiers"
"God Hates Fags"
"God hates the USA"
"Thank God for 9/11"
"Fags eats poop"
"Don't worship the dead" - these Christians may have forgotten Jesus is dead
Documentary by BBC Two
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Jesus Resurrection in the Holy Bible
Who many women came to the tomb?
How was the stone placed before the tomb removed?
Who spoke to the woman/women and the tomb?
What was said to the woman/women at the tomb of Jesus?
Matthew 28, 1 - 5:
(Who violent was the earthquake it it did not even remove the stone from the tomb?
Mark 16, 1 - 6:
Luke 24, 1 - 8:
John 20, 1 - 16:
Was Mary Magdalene alone?
Where there another Maria (was she the mother of James).
Was Salome there also?
How was the stone placed before the tomb removed?
Who spoke to the woman/women and the tomb?
What was said to the woman/women at the tomb of Jesus?
Matthew 28, 1 - 5:
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified
(Who violent was the earthquake it it did not even remove the stone from the tomb?
Mark 16, 1 - 6:
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus' body. 2Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?"
But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.
Luke 24, 1 - 8:
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' " Then they remembered his words.
John 20, 1 - 16:
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"
So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"
"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary."
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
Was Mary Magdalene alone?
Where there another Maria (was she the mother of James).
Was Salome there also?
Friday, May 16, 2008
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