Legal Win for Man Protesting Hawaiian State Capitol Prayers to Jebus

Christianity Is An Immoral System

Brian Cox Lecture - Science: A Challenge to TV Orthodoxy 1 of 3

Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair - Munk Debates

1 of 5 Derren Brown Investigates - The Man Who Contacts The Dead (Cold Reading)

Derren Brown Investigates - The Ghost Hunter One of Six

God Loves The Stupid

Representative John Shimkus (R - IL) Shamlessly Professes His Ignorance

He may be right in saying that man will not destroy the Earth. The problem is will the Earth be able to support humans if we abandon all reason and science. When politicians declare they are people of faith, we should automatically loose all confidence in them as serving the people. Not only can we not serve two masters, if one master is an imaginary friend, we have no clue as to what guides the person's thought processes and what irrationally spontaneous whim may become law. I believe public office should be open so most anyone can run and serve, but this makes me wonder if there should be some sort of insanity test as a requirement.

Coffee With Bernie

HITLER: THE ATHEIST (Quiz Show)

Humanists Launch Largest National Advertising Campaign Critical of Religious Scripture

Washington, D.C., November 9, 2010

A national multimedia ad campaign – the largest, most extensive ever by a godless organization - launches today and will include a spot on NBC Dateline on Friday, November 12, as well as other television ads, that directly challenge biblical morality and fundamentalist Christianity. The campaign, sponsored by the American Humanist Association, also features ads in major national and regional newspapers and magazines demonstrating that secular humanist values are consistent with mainstream America and that fundamentalist religion has no right to claim the moral high ground.

The ads juxtapose notable humanist quotes with passages from religious texts, including the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Quran. The ads then ask the audience to "Consider Humanism." One example is the following pairing: The Bible: “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” I Timothy 2 (New International Version) Humanism: “The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred—marriage should be a perfect partnership.” Robert G. Ingersoll, in a letter dated April 13, 1878. Another pairing is: The Bible: “The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” God, Hosea 13:16 (New International Version) Humanism: “I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.” Albert Einstein, column for The New York Times, Nov. 9, 1930

To see images and videos of the ads and find more information about the campaign please visit: http://www.considerhumanism.org.

"Humanist values are mainstream American values, and this campaign will help many people realize that they are already humanists and just did not know the term," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. "Humanists believe in and value love, equality, peace, freedom and reason – values that are comparable to those of moderate and liberal religious people."

In addition to the television ad on NBC, ads will also be displayed on cable channels. Print ads will appear in major newspapers, including USA Today, the Seattle Times, the Village Voice, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Independent Triangle, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and magazines, including Reason and The Progressive. Ads will also appear on Metro trains in Washington, D.C., on billboards on I-95 near Philadelphia and in Moscow, Idaho, and on buses in select cities.

"We want to reach people in every corner of the U.S., from all walks of life, to raise the flag for humanists and show others that they have more in common with us than with biblical literalists," said Speckhardt.

"It's important that people recognize that a literal reading of religious texts is completely out of touch with mainstream America," Speckhardt added. "Although religious texts can teach good lessons, they also advocate fear, intolerance, hate and ignorance. It's time for all moderate people to stand up against conservative religion's claim on a moral monopoly."

All quotes from religious texts were checked by scripture scholars to ensure accuracy, context and proper translation.

The Stiefel Freethought Foundation was the primary sponsor of the Consider Humanism campaign with a $150,000 donation. Another $50,000 was raised from supporters of the American Humanist Association for the launch of this campaign, bringing the total ad buy to $200,000 so far.

The American Humanist Association (www.americanhumanist.org) advocates for the rights and viewpoints of humanists. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., its work is extended through over 140 local chapters and affiliates across America. Humanism is the idea that you can be good without a belief in God.

Ultimatum to Obama and all Hostiles, Surrender or Die!

Yes this sounds crazy, but is it really any more distributional than the virgin birth, raising the dead, and Armageddon? Well, maybe a little, but probably only because we are more failure with those stories.

In Living Color - The Reverend

Why Do People Laugh at Creationists (Part 34)

Shirley Ghostman - Exorcism (La La Land)

Christopher Hitchens on Louis Farrakhan & The Pope

Marcus Brigstocke on Christianity

A.J. Jacobs' Year of Living Biblically

Killing Reconciliation: Military Raids, Backing of Corrupt Government Undermining Stated US Goals in Afghanistan

The Obama administration says it is backing a strategy of reconciliation with the Taliban. But just back from Afghanistan, unembedded investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley say night raids by US Special Operations are killing the reconciliation the administration claims to support. [includes rush transcript]

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America's True History of Religious Tolerance

The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with the historical record.

By Kenneth C. Davis
Smithsonian magazine, October 2010

From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever” — including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the widely held notion that America is a “Christian nation.”

Read the full article here.....

George Carlin: Pro Life, Abortion, And The Sanctity Of Life

Sam Harris - The Witchcraft Argument

Anti-Gay Fervor in Uganda Tied to Right-Wing US Evangelicals

Less talked about are the ties between the anti-gay measure and the far-right evangelical movement here in the United States. The author of the bill is David Bahati, a Ugandan lawmaker who has close ties to US organized evangelical groups that operate across several African countries. The groups are members of parliamentary prayer fellowships organized by the Family, one of the most powerful Christian conservative groups in Washington, DC.

The Family, also known as the Fellowship, is so highly secretive it didn’t even admit it existed until last year, when three political sex scandals, those of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Nevada Senator John Ensign, and former Mississippi Congress member Chip Pickering, forced it into the open. All three men lived at one time in the Family’s clubhouse on Capitol Hill, known as the "C Street House."

For more, we’re joined by journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, author of the bestseller The Family. His new book is C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. He traveled to Uganda earlier this year and wrote in-depth articles on the anti-gay legislation for Harper’s Magazine and The Advocate. Jeff Sharlet joins us now from Dartmouth College, where he’s an assistant professor of English.

The full transcript can be found here..

Mitchell and Webb on Homeopathy

Tim Minchin - If You Open Your Mind Too Much...

Remember the Sabbath and Keep It Real

Black Sabbath - War Pigs (Live in Paris 1970)

Richard Dawkins: An atheist's call to arms

Julia Sweeney: "Letting Go of God" (an excerpt)

Christopher Hitchens - The Best of the Hitchslap