Today in Anderson Cooper making people look stupid simply by asking questions: This lady. It may be the best entry in this subgenre of news since this video. (via pbump)
Ignorant Bigot: Ignorant, Bigoted more at 11.
Anderson Cooper: If some people were talking about putting Jews behind electric fences, I imagine that would be of concern to you.
this bitch:
apparently not…
I hope for her sake that Jesus is waiting at the bottom of the hole she’s just dug for herself. Eesh. Idiot.
If you don’t want to punch your desk and have a complete rage stroke, don’t click.
Sir Terry Pratchett, The Daily Mail (U.K.), June 21, 2008 (via nonplussedbyreligion)
Terry Pratchett, witty as ever.
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Why We Need College Degrees More than we Need Faith
By Lawrence M. Krauss
Rick Santorum has made a number of outlandish statements recently during this presidential campaign that appear derive from his religious worldview, ranging from the claim that contraception is ‘harmful to women’ to the claim that birth control encourages more abortions. But while his criticism of President Obama’s encouragement of Americans to attend college, calling such aspirations snobby, was also off the mark-those with a college degree, for example, have been shown to vastly greater earning potential and job opportunities than those without one-his claim that many students who enter college with a ‘faith commitment’ leave college without one may in fact have some basis in reality. However, the conclusion he draws from this claim is precisely wrong.
“If it is true that those who are more educated have a greater tendency to question their religious faith, shouldn’t we consider that this might be telling us more about religious faith than about how harmful getting a college degree can be?”
This is a great article. Click through to read the rest of it.
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— JON STEWART, The Daily Show.
Yep, conservatives.
Patton Oswalt, on the topic of “Gay Marriage” (via strangemachinery)
That would be a valid argument? What would the debate be exactly?
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Valid doesn’t mean right. Valid just means that it’s a much harder argument to counteract because it’s their personal opinion and not based on some book. Because the book is just a book and has plenty of other things in it that are much worse than the bit about gay people and therefore is an invalid argument. But a personal opinion like “the thought of gay sex makes me uncomfortable” is a valid argument because it is much harder to say “you’re wrong [that doesn’t make you uncomfortable]” because you can’t tell other people how they should or shouldn’t feel about things. If it makes them uncomfortable, it makes them uncomfortable. You could however say, “that’s your opinion but please keep it out of politics because you’re making other people miserable and keeping them from their basic human rights,” or, as Patton says, “That is fucking stupid.”
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Instead of focusing on the scientific inadequacy of theistic arguments, Kitcher critically examines the spiritual experiences underlying religious belief, particularly noting that they depend on specific and contingent social and cultural conditions. Your religious beliefs typically depend on the community in which you were raised or live. The spiritual experiences of people in ancient Greece, medieval Japan or 21st-century Saudi Arabia do not lead to belief in Christianity. It seems, therefore, that religious belief very likely tracks not truth but social conditioning. This “cultural relativism” argument is an old one, but Kitcher shows that it is still a serious challenge. (He is also refreshingly aware that he needs to show why a similar argument does not apply to his own position, since atheistic beliefs are themselves often a result of the community in which one lives.)
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