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Ground Zero Victory Mosque?
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"Ground Zero Victory Mosque?" is a clip from The Atheist Experience #672 ("Viewer Calls") with Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee: http://blip.tv/file/4062884
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"There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque'" (Keith Olbermann, MSNBC Countdown):
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"Bad faith at Ground Zero" (Pat Condell):
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"Tolerance' and the 'Ground Zero Mosque" (Thunderf00t)
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Heaven & Hell
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"Hell is an invention of the church ... The catholic church doesn't like the people to grow up." (John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal bishop from Newark, N.J., interviewed by Keith Morrison on Dateline, NBC, 8-13-2006)
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John Shelby Spong, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. His admirers acclaim him as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson — he's considered the champion of an inclusive faith by many, both inside and outside the Christian church. In one of his books, "The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Discover the God of Love" (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2005), this visionary thinker seeks to introduce readers to a proper way to engage the holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
A committed Christian who has spent a lifetime studying the Bible and whose life has been deeply shaped by it, Bishop Spong says he was not interested in Bible bashing. "I come to this interpretive task not as an enemy of Christianity," he says. "I am not even a disillusioned former Christian, as some of my scholar-friends identify themselves. I am a believer who knows and loves the Bible deeply. But I also recognize that parts of it have been used to undergird prejudices and to mask violence."
A visiting lecturer at Harvard and at universities and churches worldwide, Bishop Spong delivers more than 200 public lectures each year to standing-room-only crowds. His bestselling books include Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, A New Christianity for a New World, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and Here I Stand.
Bishop Spong's extensive media appearances include a profile segment on 60 Minutes as well as appearances on Good Morning America, Fox News Live, Politically Incorrect, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, William F. Buckley's Firing Line, and Extra. Bishop Spong and his wife, Christine Mary Spong, have five children and six grandchildren. They live in New Jersey.
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Stand Up For Fact-Based Education
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Secular Coalition for America: Action Alert - Tell Your Representative to Stand Up For Fact-Based Education
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By now, you've probably heard about the Texas State Board of Education's moves to impose educational standards into its textbooks intended to indoctrinate Texas public school students with a telling of U.S. history that is based in extremist religious ideology.
You've probably also heard about some of the more jaw-dropping proposed changes to the curriculum, such as booting Thomas Jefferson off of a list of influential thinkers in place of explicitly religious figures, and the totally fabricated assertion that our system of government is based specifically on the laws of Moses. This comes from the same group of theocrats who famously fought to undermine evolution in science classes and delete from science textbooks the scientific consensus on the age of the universe because they conflict with the Bible.
As terrible as this religious imposition is for Texas students, all Americans have reason to fear. Due to the size of the Texas textbook market (and because other highly populated states do not use statewide textbook contracts in the say way), the backward dictates of its theocratic school board effect textbooks used by public school students all across the country.
Someone in Congress is finally standing up to this abuse of power and unconstitutional overreach by the religious extremists on the Texas State Board of Education. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (T-DX) recently introduced a resolution (H. Res. 1593) that supports fact-based curricula in public schools without meddling by those with an avowed religious agenda. Students in Texas and all across America need to know that Congress wants them to have an education based on facts and science, not myth and religious bias.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Watch the video message above from Secular Coalition for America Executive Director Sean Faircloth supporting Rep. Johnson's resolution, and then tell your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor.
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• Secular Student Alliance
• Society for Humanistic Judaism
Secular Coalition Advisory Board:
Woody Kaplan (Chair), Robert Boston, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Bruce Flamm, Sam Harris, Jeff Hawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Susan Jacoby, Wendy Kaminer, Michael Newdow, Massimo Pigliucci, Steven Pinker, Salman Rushdie, Ellery Schempp, Todd Stiefel, Julia Sweeney
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KID smART 3/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with three representatives of KID smART. Part three of three.
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KID smART 2/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with three representatives of KID smART. Part two of three.
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KID smART 1/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with three representatives of KID smART. Part one of three.
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The Language Of Science
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"Discovering Religion: Ep. 1 - Ready-Made World" by
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This is the first installment of the original series "Discovering Religion". In this episode DiscoveringReligion discusses the apparent conflicts that exist with our present observable reality and our past archaic religious traditions that not only seem to contradict one another, but all that we have discovered through the scientific method.
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Discovering Religion
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"Discovering Religion: Ep. 1 - Ready-Made World" by
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This is the first installment of the original series "Discovering Religion". In this episode DiscoveringReligion discusses the apparent conflicts that exist with our present observable reality and our past archaic religious traditions that not only seem to contradict one another, but all that we have discovered through the scientific method.
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Vanessa Gueringer, A Community Voice 3/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with Vanessa Gueringer of A Community Voice, about improving the quality of life. Part three of three.
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Vanessa Gueringer, A Community Voice 2/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with Vanessa Gueringer of A Community Voice, about improving the quality of life. Part two of three.
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Vanessa Gueringer, A Community Voice 1/3
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Atheism is ...
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"Atheism is ...", a short poem written and read by Richard Coughlan: http://www.youtube.com/user/Coughlan616
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Atheist (n.): one without a belief in, or one who lacks belief in, the existence of god or gods.
Tags: atheism, atheist, atheists
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Frank Berger, 2010 Humanist Lifetime Achievement Award
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Awarded posthumously, June 2010 at the 69th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, San Jose, CA.
Frank Berger was best known as the developer of Miltown, the first mass-market psychiatric drug that would become a forerunner of drugs such as Valium and Prozac. Dr. Berger continued his work in drug development until 1975 and became chairman of medical research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. A longtime member of the American Humanist Association and a signer of Humanist Manifesto III, he also supported the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the New York Academy of Sciences. |
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Margarita Bergen 3/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with New Orleans epicurean Margarita Bergen about living a good life. Part three of three.
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Margarita Bergen 2/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with New Orleans epicurean Margarita Bergen about living a good life. Part two of three.
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Margarita Bergen 1/3
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Host Harry Greenberger talks with New Orleans epicurean Margarita Bergen about living a good life. Part one of three.
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A.C.Grayling talks at the British Humanist Association's 2010 Annual General Meeting on children's education and the links between religion and education. |
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Offensive Ideas
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Center for Inquiry (CFI): "Offensive Ideas" - Campaign For Free Expression.
Center for Inquiry's Campaign for Free Expression Video Contest has begun! The right to freely express oneself is vital in a modern society; we would like you to tell the world why.
Participation is easy: create a short video public service announcement about the importance of free expression, upload the video to YouTube, and tag the video with "Campaign for Free Expression Video Contest". On International Blasphemy Rights Day, September 30th, 2010, CFI will announce the top three winners, with a grand prize of $2000! See the full instructions and rules before creating your entry.
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About the Campaign for Free Expression:
Some governments and institutions -- and even some individuals -- want to keep certain topics off limits. This is especially true with religion. In many places, discussions and questions about religion are discouraged, even punished. But how can we come to our own conclusions about religion if we can't freely examine and discuss it?
The Campaign for Free Expression is a CFI initiative to focus efforts and attention on one of the most crucial components of freethought: the right of individuals to express their viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs about all subjects -- especially religion.
Various United Nations bodies, including the UN's Human Rights Council, have recently adopted resolutions condemning so-called "defamation" of religion. These resolutions lend credibility to efforts to suppress dissent and criticism, especially in Islamic countries, but Western European countries are also debating, or have already instated, laws that would criminalize religiously offensive statements. For example, Ireland recently enacted a new blasphemy law that prohibits publication of material "insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion."
CFI believes we must increase public awareness of these threats to freedom of expression, discuss and develop plans to prevent curtailment of free expression, and demonstrate that people care about their rights to free expression and are eager to exercise them.
To support the Center for Inquiry and its efforts to promote science, reason, and freedom of inquiry, please donate at http://tinyurl.com/CFIdonations
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Video by Adam Isaak and Tom Flynn.
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You Must First Invent The Universe
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You Must First Invent The Universe by http://www.youtube.com/UppruniTegundanna
A general rebuttal to the claim that the earth and the universe is young, plus a comment on how much humanity has achieved since its relatively recent emergence in the grand scale of things.
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Extracts from the following clips were used in the opening montage:
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says Earth is 6,000 years old
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzJhTfQiMA
Richard Dawkins on Q&A (1/6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVZ23GfmDo
Re; Earth is 6,000 Years Old (1 of 5) (actually a response to John Pendleton by Dechha1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV_D7_SaVDc
Kent Hovind vs Hugh Ross (part 1, disc 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwL9voGV1oQ
References:
1. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618299000154
2. http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2009/08/timeline_ice_memory_1.html
3. http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html
4. http://es.ucsc.edu/~rcoe/eart206/Patterson_AgeEarth_GeoCosmoActa56.pdf
5. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0723/
6. http://news.discovery.com/space/the-universe-is-precisely-1375-billion-years-old.html
Clips: Light Fantastic, National Geographic: Born of Fire, National Geographic: In the Womb, National Geographic: Destructive Forces, The Cell, Planet Earth, Earth Shocks: Megavolcano, Walking with Cavemen, PBS Special: 400 Years of the Telescope, The Complete Cosmos, The Story of God, Spacetelescope, ESA/NASA
Music: Maximum - Dreadzone
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A Road Not Taken
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In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an environmentally-minded centre of learning in Maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria roof.
In "A Road not Taken", Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller travel back in time and, following the route the solar panels took, interview those involved in the decisions regarding these panels as well as those involved in the oil crisis of the time. They also look closely at the way this initial installation presaged our own era.
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You may not remember this but in 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House West Wing. The panels, which were used to heat water for the staff eating area, were a symbol of a new solar strategy that Carter had said was going to "move our Nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available, energy supplies." But in 1986, President Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels while the White House roof was being repaired. They were never reinstalled.
In 1991, the panels were retrieved from government storage and brought to the environmentally-minded Unity College about an hour southeast of Bangor, Maine. There, with help of Academy Award winning actress Glenn Close, the panels were refurbished and used to heat water in the cafeteria up until 2005. They are still there, although they no longer function.
Swiss directors Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller follow the route the panels took, using them as a backdrop to explore American oil dependency and the lack of political will to pursue alternative energy sources.
In the movie "A Road Not Taken", the filmmakers took two solar panels from Unity, placed them in the back of two students' 1990 Dodge Ram pick-up truck (which had been retrofitted to run on vegetable oil) and delivered one of them to the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum in Atlanta and the other to the National Museum of American History in Washington.
In 1979, Carter warned, "a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people - harnessing the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil."
It turns out Carter's warning was at least partially correct: two of his solar panels are now a museum piece.
• http://www.roadnottaken.info/
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Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller started this project with a great deal of enthusiasm and little money. They where given a tremendous amount of support from people both in the States and in Switzerland. Up until now, however, it has not been possible to obtain the backing of a co-producer or distributor. So, if you know people who want this film to be completed on a professional level and would like it to find a wider audience, please let them know.
When we talk about the factors which have influenced the history of humankind, one key issue claims more and more of our attention: energy. An invisible power with a wide range of sources and uses, energy is perceived as the driving force behind all life, from individual vitality and artistic creativity at one end of the spectrum to the geopolitical power struggles of the modern age for the last remaining oil reserves at the other.
Hemauer/Keller have been investigating the concept of energy for several years and one of their main areas of interest has been the history of oil and competing alternatives to it, most notably solar energy. Thus they heralded the era of "Postpetrolism" in the sphere of the arts with a manifesto and a performance in 2006. The following year, our video installation "A Curiosity, a Museum Piece and an Example of a Road Not Taken" recalled Jimmy Carter's early and ultimately futile efforts to promote alternative forms of energy generation, embodied in the installation of solar collectors on the roof of the White House. On the opening day of their exhibition they received an interview appointment with the former president Jimmy Carter himself.
• http://www.roadnottaken.info/
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Starting February 2010 several organizations try to raise awareness to the story of the Jimmy Carter solar installation and to force the White House to put solar panels back on the white House.
• Sign the petition here: http://www.SolarOnTheWhiteHouse.com
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