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

Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

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

Derren Brown Investigates - The Ghost Hunter One of Six

Coffee With Bernie

Why Do People Laugh at Creationists (Part 34)

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.....

Film Depicting Woman's Stoning in Iran

What blows me away is that many western countries will not denounce this action, but have no problems ignoring all inspector's reports saying there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. It is time that religion, all religion, when entering in the public arena, should be held to the same tests of logic and morality as other views while giving no privilege. This is what a Theocracy looks like. This is why I oppose religion when it enters the the public arena, especially when it enters the political arena. A good deterrent would be to remove the tax exempt status of any organized group, especially religious groups, that become at all political.

Lack of belief in gods

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Hitler was a Christian

Hitler was a Christian and stated Christianity as the the basis of his morality. I am not sure where the rumor of Hitler being an atheist got it's wings.

How Radical Christian Conservatives May Succeed in Destroying Democracy

By Chris Hedges

There is a yearning by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment. They seek out of ignorance and desperation to create a utopian society based on “biblical law.” They want to transform America’s secular state into a tyrannical theocracy. These radicals, rather than the terrorists who oppose us, are the gravest threat to our open society. They have, with the backing of hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate money, gained tremendous power. They peddle pseudoscience such as “Intelligent Design” in our schools. They keep us locked into endless and futile wars of imperialism. They mount bigoted crusades against gays, immigrants, liberals and Muslims. They turn our judiciary, in the name of conservative values, over to corporations. They have transformed our liberal class into hand puppets for corporate power. And we remain meek and supine.

Full article can be found here....

Inside Job Trailer 2010

The Nightline Face-Off: Does God Have a Future?

This is a many part one but is very interesting. Not the least interesting to watch Chopra crumble under the frustration of his own woo woo.

BBC Horizon 2010: 1/6 What Happened Before the Big Bang

They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.

Money as Debt

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns on the Suicides of Gay Teens

Notice what was said to the teens, obviously the bullies are acting exactly like they were taught good Christians were supposed to act by their church and/or families. Kids would not have come up with these prejudices on their own.

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."

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Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States Chapter 1 Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

An excerpt by Bartolomé de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba.

. . . mountains are stripped from top to bottom and bottom to top a thousand times; they dig, split rocks, move stones, and carry dirt on their backs to wash it in the rivers, while those who wash gold stay in the water all the time with their backs bent so constantly it breaks them; and when water invades the mines, the most arduous task of all is to dry the mines by scooping up pansful of water and throwing it up outside . . . .
After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides . . . .they ceased to procreate. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and famished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desperation . . . .In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk . . . and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile . . . was depopulated . . . .My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write . . . .

It is important we understand the reality of the story of Columbus's intent and the results of that intent. Many people boycott Columbus Day, and the accounting presented here, present very good reasons to boycott, protest or at least educate. Columbus's justifications, of course, came from non other than God and the Pope.

A Clip from Canary Effect on Columbus Day

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