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Aug
31, 2012
The
Faith
and
Freedom Coalition
Started
by Ralph Reed
Exposed!
The
Resurrection of Ralph Reed
Ralph
Reed is the bottom feeder, who was the former
head of the Christian Coalition
until it was discovered that he had raked in millions of dollars from
the super lobbyist, and convicted
felon, Jack Abramoff.
Ralph Reed has returned as the head of his
new group name, the Faith and Freedom
Coalition, and he wants to win
back the allegiance and trust of
the Christian followers he duped and double crossed while working with
Abramoff.
The Republicans party’s real power brokers — Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, and Grover Norquist
— are busy doing what they do best: leveraging their political,
religious, and financial resources to
back pro-corporate, anti-government objectives at the core of the
conservative agenda.
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God In America
This movie will give you a very good education on how
religion
came to America, how it has changed over time, and how people
with differing agendas have used it to manipulate citizens to do
all kinds of silly stuff.
If you don't learn a few new things while watching this movie, then you
may truly be a person who can't be educated. Maybe your a
Tea Party sympathizer, in which case the rest of us just laugh about
your non-logic mind.
You
cause us to laugh at you, because your ignorance will
self implode upon itself, due to your lack of critical thinking
skills.
These type of people don't usually like movies like this one, because
they prefer to believe in fairy tales instead of truly educating
themselves. You'd be happier watching Santa Clause movies, or you
can settle down with a beer in your hand and watch something like
mindless reality shows on TV.
Put trash in, and you get trash out.
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Dr.
Richard Dawkins
Growing Up In The Universe
This is a great and fun educational movie where
Dr. Richard Dawkins
teaches evolution from A to Z. He does it so good that I consider
this to be the Evolution For Dummies
type of movie because it is taught through understandable English and
examples.
It also shatters the uneducated nonsense that Intelligent Design and Creationist proponents puke out
of their mouths, "Only God could create something as complex as the
human eye." As it
turns out, the human eye is
actually very easy for evolution to produce, and Dr. Dawkins
proves it
very effortlessly.
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"We
are all atheists about most of the gods
that
humanity
has
ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
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Faith
is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade
the need to
think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even
perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. I am against religion
because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
—
Dr. Richard Dawkins
"It is
absolutely safe to say that, if you meet
somebody
who
claims not to believe in evolution, that person is either ignorant,
stupid, or insane."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"There is no
such thing as a Christian child:
only a
child
of
Christian parents."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"The God of the
Old Testament is arguably the
most
unpleasant
character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust,
unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser;
a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal,
pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent
bully."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"One of the
truly bad effects of religion is
that it
teaches us
that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins |
"Let
children learn about different faiths, let
them
notice
their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about
the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are
‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to
do so."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"The majority of
children born into the world
tend
to
inherit
the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most
regrettable facts of them all."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"Science flies
you to the moon. Religion
flies
you
into
buildings."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"If
the history-deniers who doubt the
fact of
evolution
are
ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten
thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are the deluded to the
point of perversity."
— Dr. Richard Dawkins
"Religion is
about turning untested belief into
unshakable
truth
through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
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Differences
Between Faith and Critical
Thinking
September
2012
by R. L. L.
All of the major religions of the world are heavily invested, and
illogically centered around the idea of faith. They extoll and
proclaim faith as being the
highest virtue that their followers must adhere to, beyond all
reasonable questioning. To do otherwise is to risk and condemn
your very soul to eternal damnation. Wow! What a strong and
effective tool to use, to silence a questioning mind. Sounds
suspiciously like one of the many tactics of mind control, and people
control.
Simply stated, faith is the
"firm belief in something for which there is no proof." To
believe in something based "upon
faith"
means to believe in something "without question."
Conversely, critical thinking
is all about the requirement
of proof, or at the very least some strong indication based on
evidence, before believing in something. It has
everything to do with mindful questioning. Upon using
critical thinking, about religious claims, and questioning them, plus
weighing them against the evidence - many critical thinkers reject
religious ideas that have originated from previous centuries of
superstitions.
It's an intellectually and socially dangerous practice and fact that
religions routinely shut out questioning and doubt. They do so by
using faith to shut out and
squelch any debate or scientific evidence and facts. With their
convoluted
mind control, they insinuate
and preach that the truly virtuous person
is suppose to, and expected to, hang onto unproven religious claims, regardless of
any contradictory evidence. They
declare and make their doctrine dictate that the virtuous person does
not test God, but simply believes in their heart. And that is the complete opposite of
critical thinking.
When a person views faith to
be a virtue, and they are not
actively engaged in the constant routine of rooting out irrationality
from wherever it has crept into their thinking process, then they are
absolutely not a "critical thinker."
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October 2012
by R. L. L.
Pakistan
Militant Taliban Islamic
Fundamentalist Shoots 14-Year-Old School Girl in the Head and Neck
14-year-old Malala Yousafzai is a hero who has
campaigned for the education rights of girls, since she was 12 years
old. Malala first gained international prominence after blogging
for the BBC about her life under the strict enforcement of Sharia law
as interpreted by the over the top crazy Taliban nut jobs that believe
they have the absolute right to enforce Sharia law any way they want to.
Malala was returning home from school, in a northwest area of
Pakistan, when some crazy Taliban bastards stopped the vehicle she was
riding in, and one of the Taliban pricks asked for Malala by name and
then shot the little girl in the head and neck! Another girl with
her was shot in the hand.
The Pakistani
Taliban has outright, and proudly claimed responsibility for the attack
on Malalai, and they have also proclaimed that if she survives her
injuries, they will target her again!
I, R.L.L, boldly
state, claim, and declare that you militant Taliban are nothing more
than a bunch of crazy, F### Heads! I further declare that you
have shit for brains! If I were to draw a caricature of you, I
would depict you as huge, walking Ass Holes.....dropping all of your
stinking shit behind you wherever you go!
You crazy, militant Taliban believe in a strict
and anti-modern ideology. One of your Taliban lists of
prohibitions included: pork, pig oil, satellite dishes, cinematography,
music equipment, pool tables, chess, masks, tapes, computers, VCRs,
television, lobster, nail polish, firecrackers, statues, sewing
catalogs, pictures, and Christmas cards. You also got rid of
employment, education, sports for all women, dancing, clapping during
sports events, kite flying, and characterizations of living things,
including drawings, paintings, photographs, stuffed animals, and dolls.
So you are anti-modern anything, and would
prefer to live backwards in time by about 1,500 years ago.
Your full of shit! You used a modern technology item, called a
gun, to shoot a 14-year-old school girl in the head and neck.
You don't seem to mind using modern technology when it comes to
carrying out your masochistic and sadistic behavior against other human
beings. Explain that gap in your logic. You can't because
you are hypocrites, and mentally ill nut jobs.
You don't mind using the modern technology of trucks or cars to ride
around in as you police the landscape and hunt down, and chase citizens
that you self determine to be breaking your lunatic Sharia laws, and
then publicly flog them, or worse yet, shoot them in the head.
You are the one of the most disgusting examples of people with mental
illness, and stone age brains!
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U.S.
Presidents and Free Thinkers
Many people mistakenly think that Presidents and other
famous people were strong believers in, and advocates of religion, and
faith. It's not true, and here are their thoughts, and bold
statements on how they regarded religion, especially when you consider
the times periods they lived through.
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U.S. President Thomas
Jefferson
"The
Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually
the same god as
the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is
a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one
wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one
only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve
him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S.
President
"Religions are
all
alike-founded upon fables and mythologies."
- Thomas
Jefferson, U.S. President
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity
one redeeming
feature."
-
Thomas
Jefferson, U.S. President
"Christianity is the most perverted
system that ever shone
on
man."
-
Thomas
Jefferson, U.S. President
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U.S.
President James
Madison
"Religious bondage shackles
and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
- James Madison, U.S.
President
"Religion and government will both exist in greater
purity, the less they are mixed together."
- James
Madison, U.S.
President
(James Madison objected to state-supported chaplains in
Congress and to the exemption of churches from taxation.)
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U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln
"The Bible is not my
book nor
Christianity my profession. I
could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of
Christian dogma".
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U.S. President
William Howard Taft
"I do not believe in the
divinity of Christ, and there are many other
of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William
Howard Taft, U.S. President
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Free Thinkers
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Religion is
regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as
false, and by rulers as useful."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Thomas Paine
(the Author of Common
Sense)
"All national
institutions of churches, whether Jewish,
Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set
up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
- Thomas Paine
"Of all the systems of religion that ever were
invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying
to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than
this thing called Christianity."
- Thomas Paine
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Francois Arouet
"Christianity
is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody
religion that has ever infected the world."
- Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
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Napoleon
Bonaparte
"Religion
is excellent stuff for keeping
common people
quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
- Napoleon
Bonaparte
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Denis Diderot
"Man will never
be free until
the last king is strangled with
the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot
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Susan B. Anthony
"I
was born a heretic. I
always distrust people who know
so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
- Susan B. Anthony
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Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
"The
Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling
blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"All religions bear
traces of the fact that they arose during the
intellectual immaturity of the human race before it had learned the
obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty
of it's God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sigmund Freud
"Religion is comparable to
a childhood neurosis."
- Sigmund Freud
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Henry L.
Mencken
"Faith may be defined briefly
as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. A man
full of faith is simply one who has lost (or
never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is
not a mere ass: he is actually ill."
-Henry
Louis "H.L." Mencken
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Mark Twain
"Faith is believing
something you know aint true."
- Mark Twain
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Thomas Edison
"I have
never seen the slightest scientific proof of the
religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals,
or of a personal God."
- Thomas Edison, American Inventor
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Albert Einstein
"If people are good
only because they fear punishment, and hope for a
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein, German Born
American Physicist
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Charlie Chapman
"By simple common sense I
don't believe in God. In none."
- Charlie Chapman
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Kurt Vonnegut
"Say
what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning
faith. I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely
vile."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Arthur C. Clarke
"Religion is a
byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it
may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than
necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good
definition of insanity?"
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Christopher Hitchens
"We owe a huge debt
to Galileo for emancipating us all from the
stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone
God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and
allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge."
- Christopher
Hitchens
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Gene Roddenberry
"We
must question the story
logic of having an all-knowing
all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans and then blames them for
his own mistakes."
- Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
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Billy Joel
"I
believe that all important
matters have to be settled here,
not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off."
- Billy Joel, Musician
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