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The Young Turks: A Growing Voice For Reason
Posted by: RB on: March 10, 2009
The Young Turks (TYT) is a burgeoning American independent news and views organization. With their daily, even-handed, candid, insightful and humourous coverage of various issues across the political spectrum, TYT’s YouTube channel has amassed a massive following. They are a demonstration of the sort of standard that major news media does not live up to. [...]
Fear and Anti-Male Discrimination in the Classroom
Posted by: RB on: March 10, 2009
In his book The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Barry Glassner discusses how Americans have become unnecessarily fearful of many things, thanks in good part to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, sensationalist news media, “news magazine” programming and so on. Such irrational fear complexes can do profound and unjustified [...]
Stephen Colbert: The worst offender against Christianity is God
Posted by: RB on: December 12, 2008
This is a must-watch Colbert clip. In it, Colbert addresses the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s anti-religion and pro-reason sign at the Washington state Capitol in Olympia, the resolution requiring the Kentucky state Department of Homeland Security’s to display a plaque claiming that “the safety and security of the commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon [...]
Apostates who fear being damned, left behind and sent to hell probably would be
Posted by: RB on: December 7, 2008
Among conservative religionists, there is a view that atheism is bleak because nonbelievers are necessarily plagued with fear of damnation, being left behind and going to hell. This is a fear that literalist religious apologists deliberately cultivate, propagate and maintain in believers and nonbelievers alike. As a consequence of this, it is not too surprising [...]
The Bitching of a Spoiled Child: Catholic Leader Wants Entitlement Back!
Posted by: RB on: December 7, 2008
I’ve become increasingly nervous for Britain (and many pockets of Europe) over recent years because of the hotpot of Islamism that seems to be simmering and splattering out into society there, so I find the whinings of British Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor to be particularly reassuring. In a nutshell, Murphy-O’Connor is bitching that religion is being [...]
Is YouTube Automating Censorship For Big Bucks?
Posted by: RB on: December 5, 2008
Does YouTube’s new algorithmic demotion of profane materials amount to a compromise of free speech for the sake of ad revenue? Is YouTube going the way of Old Media – prioritizing the interests of advertisers over those of users?
Political Correctness Gone Mad: Pretending That Our Religions Are Not Inane
Posted by: RB on: December 5, 2008
What is political correctness gone mad? To-the-letter upholding of the US Constitution or pretending that baseless religious doctrinal claims are not an absurd set of foundations for one’s views on the universe, morality, life and the afterlife? Reason versus Bill O’Reilly.
Someone tell the UN to stop pandering to Islamists and Terrorists
Posted by: RB on: December 2, 2008
It’s a lesson for the kids: TERRORISM WORKS!
A few days ago, the UN – by a massive 85 – 50 voting margin (with 42 abstentions) - passed a non-binding resolution calling on member states to prohibit “defamation of religion”. Alright. The time for politeness is over when such an appalling policy is passed. FUCK THAT! And Fuck [...]
Responding to GoGreen’s Cleavage Criticism Response
Posted by: RB on: November 24, 2008
A Youtuber that has received a fair share of attention from the online atheist community over the past few months is GoGreen18, or Laci. Laci’s YouTube popularity was given a good jolt after her video on why atheists care about religious people’s beliefs was plugged by such popular blogs as Pharyngula. In her most recent video [...]
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