Links for the Sabbath - 1/10/10

•DarwinWeek.com Darwin Week is coming up here in nearly a month. Be sure to keep checking the website for updates promo materials videos, etc.. For now just check out what we did last year and start getting excited for this year!

•Grab a Brew Share Your View - "Is giving always good?" (fb)
Tuesday January 12th
Maucker Union - Hemisphere Lounge
7:00 pm
For more info click on the GABSYV tab above.

•Richard Dawkins on Al Jazeera

•I am an Atheist... and I owe it to another atheist who ridiculed me. (Self Reddit via chaseoc)

•From Jesus to Christ | PBS Frontline Documentary.

"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians" tells the epic story of the rise of Christianity. The four hours explore the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we now know as Christianity.

•Christopher Hitchens' final word/conclusion at Intelligence² Debate (Whole debate link)

The infamous Karl Marx quote with context:

Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man—state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

•TIM MINCHIN'S STORM IS BEING MADE INTO A MOVIE! (www.stormmovie.net)


•Ron Paul: Quackery enabler | Respectful Insolence (Scienceblogs)

•Born-again Baldwin Gets 'Fanatical' On Reality Show | IMDB

He explained, "I'm gonna sound fanatical right now but what my faith requires is if I were sitting here, and my wife and two kids were sitting there, and we were on a public bus and somebody came in with a machine gun and pointed it at my daughter and said to my daughter, 'Say Jesus doesn't exist' - if she turned to me and said, 'What do I do?', I'd say, 'What have I taught you to do?'

"She'd say, 'Jesus absolutely exists', and I'd see her in heaven."

•ABC News embraces the nonsense | Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait

•At Mayor’s Breakfast, ‘Interfaith’ Means Atheists, Too | New York Times

“I also want to welcome, for the first time, those who don’t profess a faith but who do love our city,” the mayor said.

•Many U.S. Christians pay tithe before mortgage, even in crisis | Reuters

It all began back in February, while working on a series of feature stories that I compiled on the U.S. housing crisis. In interviews with non-profit counsellors in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta and then Memphis, the subject of tithing and how some struggling home owners would rather lose their homes than cease their payments to the church kept coming up.

•The God Fraud | Sam Harris - Foreign Policy

•LUVIowa.com | Iowa Family Policy Center (file under "Know Thine Enemy")

•An illustrated explanation of how homeopathy works (PIC)

"I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisons themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go." Thus Spoke Zarathustra by
Friedrich Nietzsche