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This picture is from the recent Values Voter Summit. This group is about as homophobic as they come. However, the two “fellows” in this picture appear to be as gay as you can get. The only thing missing is for one of the boys to give a reach around to the other.
One of the advantages of being a computer gypsy of the last decade or so is not accumulating a lot of “stuff”. I have wanted some things then wondered where the heck was I going to put it. I also worry about having to move stuff. I will admit I cannot get on board with digitized books. I love my books. Of course, my brother threatened to not help me move again as he carried box after box of books up three flights of stairs.
The speaker highlighted a question I have been asking myself for years, “Is my life really going to be that much better if I spend my hard earned money on this —fill in the blank—.” Remember the old saw about stuff owning us rather than we owning stuff? Of course George Carlin would tell you that “his stuff is stuff, and your stuff is shit.”
Something to think about.
C. Peter Wagner, an endorser of Gov. Rick Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally, explains that the nation of Japan is controlled by a demon spirit (The Sun Goddess) because the Emperor had sexual intercourse with her.
Wagner has been credited with founding the New Apostolic Reformation. This group conducts spiritual warfare against demons, seeks dominion over public institutions and government. Their goal is make America a “Christian” nation as they define it. As I understand they believe that the church leaders are apostles and prophets. Apparently the prophets have conversations with God and relay the skinny to the apostles. Scary stuff.
You may remember a few months back Pew published the results of a poll that showed Agnostics and Atheists knew more about religion than people of faith. Quiz is gone on their site.
And here is the link to the Pew article on the results of their poll: U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey
Writing in the Scientific American Charles Seife disputes their methodology and analysis of the results. The article is The Science of “Disestimation”: The Shortcomings of Opinion Polls with a subtitle of Why we shouldn’t put our faith in opinion polls.
Mr. Seife is probably correct in his assessment. Statistical analysis is way beyond my realm of knowledge. I would assume, though, that an organization like Pew would have some statisticians on board…or maybe they should.
Anecdotally from my experience I would tend to agree with Pew. Most of the Atheists that I personally know have gotten there after much study and thought. It is not an easy thing to discard the powerful meme that is religion. Continue reading “Another Point of View on Pew Poll on Religious Knowledge Among Americans”
George Carlin sums it up very nicely…
Maybe the kids occupying Wall Street will be a start. It is way past time to take OUR country back from these $h!theads.
I’ve been looking for a statistic on the percentage of welfare/Medicare fraud by recipients. I kept seeing this quote all over the Internet. While I did not find the original study, I am going to trust the Boston Herald.
“A study in Massachusetts showed that more than 93 percent of the money recovered from welfare fraud came from vendors.”
Read the full story at the Boston Herald at this link: The real cheaters
“’Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this wise. When his mother, Mary, was espoused to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.’ Yes, and the Greek demigod Perseus was born when the god Jupiter visited the virgin Danaë as a shower of gold and got her with child. The god Buddha was born through an opening in his mother’s flank. Catlicus the serpent-skirted caught a little ball of feathers from the sky and hid it in her bosom, and the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli was thus conceived. The virgin Nana took a pomegranate from the tree watered by the blood of the slain Agdestris, and laid it in her bosom, and gave birth to the god Attis. The virgin daughter of a Mongol king awoke one night and found herself bathed in a great light, which caused her to give birth to Genghis Khan. Krishna was born of the virgin Devaka. Horus was born of the virgin Iris. Mercury was born of the virgin Maia. Romulus was born of the virgin Rhea Sylvia.”
The above is from Christopher Hitchens book, god is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything.
Given his status as journalist and author, I did not feel the need to vet the above information. I am sure it has been done many times before.
Read Mr. Krugman’s full blog posting below. IMHO he is one of the clearest of the pundits around.
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