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UPCOMING SHOW: July 1st, 2009
Jonathan Rowe, from PositiveLiberty.com, will be our guest to discuss the faith of the founding fathers and how both the secular left and religious right propagate myths about their beliefs.
Join us in chat.
Joining us, from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, will be Mikey Weinstein. Weinstein is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and performed as legal counsel in the Reagan White House. He will be our guest to discuss the threat of Evangelical Christianity in the military. Links of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agLrY042-\_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbJ63Y4R0dA
Mike Jarsulic special hosts this episode featuring Eric Scheibeler. Eric is a former Amway Emerald Distributor and he will be our guest to discuss Amway's business model and how they focus on the "faithful" to obtain distributors.
Ryan Covington is our guest to discuss his new book, "Atheism and Naturalism". Ryan is a former fundamentalist Christian who got involved in the creationism/evolution debate a few years ago. He currently blogs at http://aigbusted.blogspot.com where he critique many of the claims put forth by apologists and creationists.
* Still having some sound quality issues. We are working hard on a better solution.
Dr. Richard Carrier will return to the show to discuss his recent work, including his debate with William Lane Craig, his latest book, Not the Impossible Faith and the Jesus Project.
Check out his work at: http://www.richardcarrier.blogspot.com or the Secular Web
Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, will be our guest to discuss the new science standards in Texas as well as her new book, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. IG has a crush on Genie. ;)
This should be the last week that we are experiencing major sound issues... no god willing.
Chris Hallquist will be our guest to discuss his book, UFOs, Ghosts, and the Rising God. Chris is a contributor at the Secular Web where he has written a critique of William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith. You can check out his work at http://www.uncrediblehallq.net or at the Secular Web.
Forgive the warnings by BlogTalkRadio. I had no idea. I'll need to find a way around those.
Acharya S returns to the show to continue the discussion on her book Christ in Egypt and will also discuss the pagan origins of Easter. http://www.truthbeknown.com.
Acharya S returns to the show to discuss the influence of Egyptian religion on Christianity as well as the common attributes of Jesus and Horus. Information on Acharya's new book "Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection" can be found at http://truthbeknown.com.
We apologize for the sound quality. We plan on bringing her back another day.
Our guest will be John Lewis, a paranormal investigator from Baelfire Paranormal Investigation in Titusville, PA. Mr. Lewis will be discussing the ins-and-outs of paranormal investigation including his work, the tools he uses, the science behind his work and famous cases. Check out his work at http://baelfireparanormal.org.
We at infidelguy.com hope our guest is doing well and recovering from his emergency. Whatever it may have been.
Frank Schaeffer is our guest to discuss the Religious Right and growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family. Frank is the son of Francis Schaeffer, a Calvinist theologian credited with igniting political activism among American Protestants in the late 1970s. Schaeffer is the author of the book, "Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back". You can check out his work at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer
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Not all women are worthy of being treated like ladies.
And not all men are worthy of being treated like gentlemen. Your response is irrelevent. My point, which was clearly too advanced for a person of your obvious intellectual deficiency to comprehend, was that women should not be treated with less respect than men by virtue of simply being women. Judge people according to attitudes and deeds, the things that form their character, not what they happen to have between their legs. You demonstrated a grotesque lack of respect for all women by describing them as sexual objects that exist purely for your gratification. If you stand by those comments, then you, sir, are a barbarian, a relic of less enlightened, less civilized times, and those of us who wish to live in the 21st century would do well to see your ilk consigned to the dustbin of history.
rayback wrote:
Would you marry a prostitute?
That's an irrelevent question. Intellectual people call such tactics "red herrings". I suggest you take some time to research logical fallacies before you try to take on people who are obviously much smarter than you.
rayback wrote:
I am being honest here.
You are lying and simply pretending to stand up for ALL women.
What are you talking? Do
you
even know what you're trying to argue here? Have you ever read any your posts back after writing them? Maybe you should.
infidelguy wrote:
What's with the bold in all of your recent posts? Don't worry, we see you.
Don't expect him to answer you, Reggie. I've called him on that at least twice and he acknowledged it neither time.
Why did you ignore my second sentence? I go on to point out that brainwashing includes physical actions, not just reading.
The worst a book can be is incorrect. Programming and brainwashing take more than that. Books (of any topic) can be part of programming method, but not the method themselves. By themselves they are insufficient.
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Follow Up: Parents in faith-healing case never considered calling a doctor
OREGON CITY -- Carl and Raylene Worthington told detectives that they never considered calling a doctor, even as their 15-month-old daughter deteriorated and died.
"I don't believe in them," Carl Worthington said of doctors. "I believe in faith healing."
Raylene Worthington said that her religious beliefs do not encompass medical care and that she would not have done anything different for her - daughter, who died at home of pneumonia, a blood infection and other complications.
In Clackamas County Circuit Court on Wednesday, prosecutors played videotaped police interviews with the Worthingtons, who are accused of criminal mistreatment and manslaughter for failing to provide medical care for their daughter. Ava Worthington died March 2, 2008, after her parents and other members of the Followers of Christ tried to treat her with faith healing.
-Article continues off Site, courtesy Oregon Live.
Posted by Shinai_Gene on Saturday, July 04, 2009 @ 06:53:48 PDT (19 reads)
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Archeology: Rabbit Sized Fossil Ancestor of Modern Day Elephant Found
Scientists have found the fossil of a 60-million-year-old creature in Morocco, which is the rabbit sized ancestor of the modern day elephant.
Paleontologist Emmanuel Gheerbrant discovered the rabbit-size proto-elephant’s skull fragments in a basin 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Casablanca, Morocco.
The creature, called Eritherium azzouzorum, bolsters the case that whole new orders of mammals were already around less than 6 million years after global catastrophe ended the age of reptiles some 65.5 million years ago.
Elephant ancestors now join the likes of rodents and early primates as some of the first known mammals to walk the Earth during the Paleocene era, 65.5 to 55 million years ago (prehistoric time line), according to Gheerbrant.
With Mikey Weinstein's kind permission, I'm going to reprint an example of the kinds of letters and emails the Military Religious Freedom Foundation gets on a daily basis from active duty military personnel and their families. The details have been changed so as to maintain the anonymity of the person who wrote it but it is otherwise reproduced just as it came in. And bear in mind while you read this that MRFF has received more than 10,000 such communications.
Dear Mr. Weinstein and MRFF: I am absolutely worried about writing this to you, as I am terrified of the (military service branch withheld), but feel I have no choice. My husband is an honorable man, who I believe has been persecuted in the United States (military service branch withheld) for his refusal to cave in to the Evangelical agenda. He is a (rank withheld), waiting for his retirement, that he won as a part of his Court Martial proceeding in (time frame withheld). Mikey, I have never seen anything like this. My husband has a (educational degree and discipline withheld), taught at (university name withheld) where we often bucked the system regarding the proselytising and has had an honorable career (in the top 4% of rank withheld) in (military command name withheld) until a new command came in to (military installation name withheld) in (month and year withheld). Up until then he was considered to be an excellent candidate for (rank withheld) but we refused as he only wanted to retire and get away from the bible thumping. This command is evangelical in nature-and they harassed me all the way through my husband's court proceeding.
-Article continues off site, courtesy ScienceBlogs: Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Posted by Shinai_Gene on Monday, June 29, 2009 @ 23:48:23 PDT (127 reads)
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Religion: Pastor Promotes Bring Your Gun to Church Sunday
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church here, is passionate about gun rights. He shoots regularly at the local firing range, and his sermon two weeks ago was on “God, Guns, Gospel and Geometry.” And on Saturday night, he is inviting his congregation of 150 and others to wear or carry their firearms into the sanctuary to “celebrate our rights as Americans!” as a promotional flier for the “open carry celebration” puts it.
“God and guns were part of the foundation of this country,” Mr. Pagano, 49, said Wednesday in the small brick Assembly of God church, where a large wooden cross hung over the altar and two American flags jutted from side walls. “I don’t see any contradiction in this. Not every Christian denomination is pacifist.”
The bring-your-gun-to-church day, which will include a $1 raffle of a handgun, firearms safety lessons and a picnic, is another sign that the gun culture in the United States is thriving despite, or perhaps because of, President Obama’s election in November.
-Article continues off site, courtesy The New York Times.
Posted by Shinai_Gene on Friday, June 26, 2009 @ 12:58:50 PDT (176 reads)
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Law and Justice: Texas Supremes uphold Special Rights for Religion
The Texas state supreme court ruled unanimously on Friday that a town which had altered its zoning to ban two church-sponsored halfway houses in a residential neighborhood was in violation of the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
That act, which was passed in 1999 and endorsed by then-Governor George W. Bush, affords greater legal protection to religious operations than to equivalent secular operations.
Under its provisions, cities have to prove that zoning regulations — like the one passed by the town of Sinton to ban jails and rehabs within 1000 feet of a home, school, or church — further a “compelling” interest, such as protecting public safety, and do not place a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion.
Town officials asserted that the zoning regulations placed no restrictions on worship or the practice of religion and were merely intended to protect the safety of residents. This position was upheld at the local and appeals court levels.
