If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source. yet another classic onion article. what a gem.

Gallup : On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. this is in the US. Poll includes education level and church attendance breakouts. i’m wondering how 11% of postgrads can “not believe in evolution”. via boris.


YouTube – Picards response to Rick Warren. I think this is only funny the first time you watch it.

Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses – NYTimes.com. The ad says “There’s Probably No God”.

This American Life : Heretics “The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything hed worked for over his entire life.” This episode was amazing.

Border guards to turn away church group aiming to picket bus victim’s funeral. I love that an MP called them “lunatics”.

Buddhist Teachers Make Their Own Limits in a Spiritual Partnership – New York Times. these two people never leave each others side. ever. and they’re celibate.

Jewish Rep. Cohen Battles Antisemitism and Racism In Re-Election – The Sleuth. Tennessee is so progressive.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Christopher Hitchens: Full Version of God Debate Video. Hitchens is entertaining and the Rabbi was kinda boring.

RFK Jr on conservatism

These two videos are of a speech Robert Kennedy Jr during a panel about the republication of Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative. He talks about the meaning of Goldwater’s conservatism and it’s perversion by the modern day conservative movement. There’s some really choice quotes amongst the whole speech. Here’s the youtube links for both part 1 and part 2.


Dan Savage in South Carolina. some funny stuff and some great commentary afterwards on the lunacy of religion in politics.

Afghan journalism student given death sentence – CBC News. for discussing something that “violated the tenets of islam”. and it was done by a secret court. i’m so glad Canada is fighting for “freedom” over there.

Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress. wow. that was certified crazy talk. He also uses lots of scientology acronyms like KSW and SP. via ram.

I think McCain is going to take South Carolina. People were going to vote for Huckabee until they realized that John is the only one who has the guts to handle the rattlesnakes at the evangelical churches.
- PJ O’Rourke on Real Time with Bill Maher

Giles Bowkett: Do Cats See God On Catnip?. includes a great video of a bunch of drunk safari animals.

Gospel Truth. it seems National Geographic totally messed up the interpretation of the Book of Judas. Turns out the book actually says Judas was a demon. ya, a demon.

blackwater

Anyone who reads this blog probably has now probably heard about Blackwater, the private military firm from the US whose employees recently killed 17 civilians in Iraq. Frontline did a report last year entitled Private Warriors which covered the role these private military personnel play, the total clusterfuck Blackwater caused after 4 of their men were killed in Falujah, and how they operate with little to no oversight. What they didn’t talk about was how fucking scary Blackwater actually is.

Jeremy Scahill released a book back in February entitled Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army and is probably the leading expert on Blackwater. He was on Real Time with Bill Maher on the weekend and what he said really shocked me. Here’s the clip…

Boris mentioned to me that he was also on Bill Moyer’s Journal a few weeks ago. The Moyer’s piece is quite interesting as it shows how Eric Prince, Blackwater’s CEO and founder (and “Christian Supremist” as Scahill calls him), managed to pull off a PR blitz that fooled just about everyone who interviewed him and failed to point out the total lies he’s managed to spin. I’d highly recommend watching the segment.

BBC NEWS | US anti-gay church to pay $10.9m. these are the idiots who protest dead soldiers funerals.

The supposed ‘clash of cultures’ is in reality nothing more than a manifestation of mutual ignorance
- The Aga Khan

Flash Animated Philosophy From South Park Creators. the first one is definitely the best.