The National, a show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), has a segment titled “Seven” where reporter Mark Kelley “tries on a different lifestyle and a different point of view” for one week. This week, he spent “seven days with God’s army.” Watch the clip (25 minutes): What does God’s army talk about? Porn. They’re obsessed with the porn. And the dangers of “rap, rock, [and] MTV.” More of God’s army: “It’s time to tune out and to tune off… Read more
It always manages to end up like this, doesn’t it…? Keep up the good fight, Opus. And work on your arguments. “Accident” is a bad word choice. There’s an important distinction to be made between random chance playing a role in the very non-random process of evolution. [tags]Opus, Intelligent Design, Christianity, atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
A couple nights ago, Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America appeared on The O’Reilly Factor. While the full clip is not yet available, Media Matters did happen to get a part of it. Which part? The part where Bill O’Reilly is caught in a blatant lie. Read the report and see the clip here. Essentially, O’Reilly claimed that Best Buy employees are forbidden from saying “Merry Christmas,” which turns out to be… well… untrue. Bill O’Reilly say… Read more
As noted earlier, today is the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s passing. Bloggers everywhere are honoring him by writing about their memories of Sagan (thanks to Joel Schlosberg for organizing it all). … Personally, I’m sad to say I didn’t read Cosmos until about a year ago. And when I first saw the movie Contact, I was still unfamiliar with the Sagan book that inspired it. Needless to say, I wish I had read both books earlier in life. But… Read more
Lori Lipman Brown, lobbyist for the Secular Coalition for America, will be on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor tonight, presumably to talk about the “War on Christmas.” The show airs 8:00 pm EST. [tags]Lori Lipman Brown, Secular Coalition for America, Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor, War on Christmas, atheist, atheism, Christian[/tags] Read more
