I don’t know if Christianity particularly attracts homosexuals, I doubt it since they are a relevant minority throughout the planet’s population What is obvious, however, is how problematic it is for Christian beliefs to be reconciled with the real world.
Several more Evangelical Christian leaders have been ousted from their religious positions for engaging in homosexual acts, or as they put it, “sexual immorality.”
If this video doesn’t leave you laughing the whole time…there’s something wrong with you.
Just watched Deepak Chopra on the Colbert Report. I really can’t understand how the man can be so popular. He said very little of substance, and a little bit about the “you” being the user of your nervous system, and how everything that exists is an illusion created by consciousness. What boggles my mind is how he can speak with such confidence about utter nonsense, and then that he can be taken seriously by anyone.
Inspired by Ed Brayton’s post on the subject, I was inspired to figure out my own top albums. I surprised myself in having a much more difficult time narrowing it down than I thought I would. My original goal was 10, but I just couldn’t get down that far. I went through my 6,000+ songs and found the albums that I couldn’t really live without. Some are enchanting, some are unusual, some are just plain fun, but they all keep me captivated from beginning to end.
Just watched Francis Collins on the Colbert Report from Thursday, and this type of debate makes me want to side (if I were to choose sides) with PZ Myers in the ongoing atheist debates. Francis Collins is one of those scientists attempting to reconcile religious belief with science and I think he’s undermining both in the process. His explanation of evolution as a way of God giving “upgrades” is neither theologically coherent, nor scientifically valid.
For some occasions, Myers might be right that theistic evolutionists can actually hurt the teaching of science. A moderate, middle-of-the-road position is not always the correct one. I’ll try to find a link to the video later.
Tony vs. Paul
Another really cool YouTube video. A live-action/stop-motion animation.
In one of the last sections of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, he talks about religion as child abuse. I think it might even be more coherently spelled out in his The Root of All Evil? television documentary. His main argument addresses the idea of raising children to promote sectarian divisions among pluralistic societies. Raising children in strictly Jewish or Muslim or Protestant or Catholic schools (among others), promotes a deep-seated division between people of a society who would otherwise be recognized as friends, or at least members of the same community. These faith-divisions are imposing the ideological dispositions of the parents onto the children, who, initially, have no idea what it means, and are not of sufficient age where they can make such extremely important philosophical decisions themselves.
I don’t think I believe what I just heard. I mean, I know the people at FOX News are mentally deficient, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Some moron was talking about how Barak Obama might compete against Hillary Clinton, and made not to emphasize his middle name, Barak Hussein Obama. And said specifically, “did you know that’s his middle name?”
Of course, he was trying to insinuate something about Obama because he happens to have a similar name to Saddam Hussein. I had a roommate last year whose first name was Osama, but that doesn’t mean he was going to attack New York.
The inanity pervading FOX News never ceases to amaze me.
Definitely had to post these amazing videos by Lasse Gjertsen. The first takes mouth-made sounds and edits them into an awesome drum-like vocal solo, the second is more musical and uses a drumset and piano.
Hyperactive - Lasse Gjertsen
Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen
