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Religion
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11.09.08Debate report: “Away with All Gods! Possibility or Fantasy?”Last Thursday, I attended the debate, "Away With All Gods! Possibility or Fantasy?" which was put on by UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion. The guest speaker, Sunsara Taylor, is a writer for the Revolution Newspaper, and sits on the advisory board of The World Can't Wait (yes, that means she is a Communist, not to poison any wells). She is on a speaking tour for Away With All Gods!, a book by Bob Avakian, the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. You can watch a sample of her talk, or watch her appearance on The O'Reilly Factor. The ...
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10.26.08Fred Phelps and FamilyThis past meeting we watched a few bits with Louis Theroux, one of which was from, The Most Hated Family in America. I'm surprised that not everyone is aware of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. This is one of those cases where ignorance is probably bliss. Fred Phelps and the WBC are most widely known for the website www.godhatesfags.com. The first I had heard of them was back around 2000 for having a running counter of how long Matthew Shepard has been in hell. They also run www.godhatestheworld.com, www.americaisdoomed.com, priestsrapeboys.com, www.hatemongers.com (No, I'm not making that one up), ...
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05.22.08“God sent an angel, and his name was Adolf.”That's what controversial Pastor and John McCain surrogate might as well have said during a speech in the late 1990s claiming that Adolf Hitler was fulfilling the will of God by driving the Jews out of Europe and back into the Levant so the world would be one step closer to the Rapture and Armageddon. You can hear the entire sermon here (thanks to Crooks and Liars for the link) - Continue Reading...
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05.06.08The Wrongness of WrighteousnessEDIT: It looks like Obama over performed in both North Carolina and Indiana by 10% over what most of the polls were claiming. All the pundits at this point say that the primary is basically over and that he won - so I was completely wrong about the first part. Yes, 'wrongness' is an actual word; I looked it up. And unfortunately for the candidate who I hope to have the privilege to vote for in November, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Affair has again reared its ugly head and threatens Barack Obama's chances of winning Indiana and even North Carolina in ...
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05.05.08Expelled Part II – “My grandpaw did NOT come from a monkey!”[DISCLAIMER: The sentiments expressed by the author do NOT necessarily reflect those of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists or any of her affiliates. Reader discretion is strongly advised.] Retarded Fiction #2) Evolution by means of natural selection is not only implausible, but has never actually been proven. Really, Stein? Both of these delicious-looking specimens were originally bred from ferocious wolves. The next time you see any domesticated animal, fruit, or vegetable, remind yourself that practically everything you see in the produce aisle came about through minute genetic changes sustained over thousands of years. Here are just a few of the tremendous phenotypic changes ...
