Bill Maher’s movie is very funny while also being a wake up call to the very real global dangers of religion.
A must see!
-JSNTR
Entries Tagged as ‘Opinions and Rants’
September 12, 2008
A Palin Theocracy
Thursday 11 September 2008, by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can’t stop talking about her. Given McCain’s age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 pages long), Palin [...]
May 14, 2008
Einstein Letter
AFP | May 14, 2008
Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments [...]
April 29, 2008
Faith of Our Fathers
Timothy Egan, New York Times, Opinion, April 23, 2008
Watching the polygamists in West Texas come into the sunlight of the 21st century has been jarring, making you feel like a voyeur of some weird historical episode.
You see these 1870 Stepford wives with the braided buns and long dresses, these men with their low monotones and [...]
March 13, 2008
Bush’s Last Fans
Frank Schaeffer, Huffington Post, 3/13/08
President Bush was on my old stomping grounds this week. Back in the early 1980s I was also the keynote speaker at the NRB (National Religious Broadcaster’s) convention.
According to the New York Times, (March 12, 2008):
President Bush delivered a rousing defense of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday, mixing [...]
January 4, 2008
Whitewashing and Cherry Picking Religion
Tina Dupuy, Huffington Post, 1/2/08
I was born into the group the Children of God (COG) or as they are called now, the Family International — a Christian cult that started in the late ’60’s made up of dropout hippies in Huntington Beach. They went ‘international’ after the leader was sought for kidnapping and tax evasion. [...]
December 10, 2007
Scientology Ban In Germany?
Today the German, Interior Minister calls it an unconstitutional organization and is moving to ban Scientology. Founded by science fiction writer , L. Ron Hubbard in 1956, Scientology has been described by some German citizens as sinister, dangerous and “a sect just after our money.”
Other Scientology criticisms today in Germany included, it is “trying to influence [...]
September 23, 2007
Why Should God Bless America?
Source and video: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/09/why_should_god_bless_america.html
For those who didn’t have the opportunity to watch the Values Voter Debate last evening, you missed quite a display of political pandering, ridiculous rhetoric and all-around right-wing lunacy. You also missed this lovely rendition of “God Bless America” performed by the Church of God Choir, from Springfield, Ohio – reworded to [...]
September 17, 2007
God as Their Running Mate
Michael Kinsley, TIME essay, 9.6.07
Mitt Romney wants the J.F.K. deal with voters: If you don’t hold my religion against me, I won’t impose my religion on you. But that deal made little sense in 1960 and makes no sense today. Kennedy said, “I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair.” But [...]
September 15, 2007
Story of Abraham can vex the faithful
By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune religion reporter, September 14, 2007
On Rosh Hashanah, many rabbis struggle to inspire their audiences with one of the Bible’s more chilling tales: Abraham, father of the Jewish people, bound his beloved son Isaac to an altar, raised a knife and prepared to kill him simply because God told him [...]
August 31, 2007
Words for Lusty Larry
By Jean Carnahan, first posted on Huffington Post Aug. 31, ‘07
The next time you’re in a public place and some politician peers into your eyes, broadens his stance, taps for your attention, and begins spouting “family values” rhetoric, run for the nearest exit.
Since Larry Craig was once a co-worker of mine in the U.S. Senate, I [...]
August 20, 2007
Our Religious Destiny
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
August 20, 2007; Wall Street Journal
Recently the presidential campaigns have been turning to talk of the candidates’ religious faith. Barack Obama proclaims a “personal relationship” with Jesus Christ. Democratic candidate John Edwards is on the religious offensive, speaking for Jesus himself when he tells an interviewer he thinks Christ “would be appalled” by [...]
August 17, 2007
In a world where religion is pushing events, US diplomats need a greater expertise in it.
Christian Science Monitor, August 16, 2007.
In much of the world, religion – not ideology – is the prime motivator propelling people and events, often leading to violence. Congress had a sense of that a decade ago when it began considering how the US might better promote religious freedom and tolerance in its foreign policy. It’s [...]
August 9, 2007
At Last A Comic Book Atheist Hero
Matthew Chapman, Posted on huffingtonpost.com, August 8, 2007
Pat Tillman, an extraordinarily square-jawed football player who gave up a lucrative professional life to go and fight for his country, was at first hailed as a hero by a military eager for good publicity. When it was discovered Tillman died as a result of “friendly fire” — [...]
August 30, 2006
Crackpot Christianity: Part Two, Walter C. Uhler
During the weekend of August 26-27, 2006, Americans were given another opportunity to see “Crackpot Christianity” in action. All they had to do was tune in to The Coral Ridge Hour and watch its presentation of Darwin’s Deadly Legacy. I watched it Saturday evening and was respectively amused and appalled by the show’s infantilism and [...]
