Palin Sharpens Attack on Obama's Abortion Stance

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Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:14 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

despicable...

http://www.koco.com/cnn-news/17724300/detail.html

Many Believe God's Intervention Can Revive the Dying

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Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:53 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

aritonang,

It is prudent to at least support your claim with evidence, otherwise it's bad form. What can asserted without evidence can be equally dismissioned without evidence.

Obama's 'Big Cross' Flier Hits Kentucky

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Thu May 22, 2008 6:41 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 3

'"The Christian Party".

Oh boy, a theocracy in the making, sounds interesting. Besides, one political party already bends over backwards and panders to the faithful, it's the GOP.

Survey: 16 Percent of Science Teachers are Creationists

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Thu May 22, 2008 6:21 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 2

http://www.pandasthumb.org/

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/05/from-rna-to-hum.html

Ya, you might like, ya know, actually learn something....

'Academic Freedom' Legislation Advances in Four States

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Sun May 11, 2008 10:37 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 1

Let's teach that the Intelligent Designer is the all mighty FSM! The FSM will not be mocked!

'Academic Freedom' Legislation Advances in Four States

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Sun May 11, 2008 10:11 am Agree: 6   Disagree: 0

Praise for the Academic Freedom legislation! The college group I work with have been persicuted for years about trying to teach about the FSM and now if this passes we can teach about our lord the FSM who holds everything together in our universe with his noodly appendages! All hail FSM! ~O|O ~

Dead Girl's Parents Probed for Limiting Efforts to Prayer

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Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:56 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Good GOD! I am religious, atleast I think I am very religious and my understanding of having faith in God is also understanding that God gave us a brain, the ability to think. That is how we differ from other animals, our ability to reason and progress. God told us (according to the texts from my religion) to think. God also says he only helps those who help themselves; make the first move (paraphrased)....so how is ONLY asking God for help doing anything to change your situation? I don't know if these people should be arrested or if their children should be taken away but I sure think just like driving requires a license, so should parenting. I actually believe if you know something is wrong with your health and you don't do anytihng to fix it and end up dying, that is in a way commiting suicide. I guess these parents are indirect murderes of their own daughter, unfortunately.

Media Spreading 'Gospel of Godlessness,' says Watchdog

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Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:55 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 4

"After reviewing stories in 2007 that featured atheism or presented atheist viewpoints, the group found that the media not only gave atheism a more prominent voice in its coverage but also a favorable and even positive report"

Oh, please. The views people have of non-believers is so out of whack that a recent MN poll revealed they are MORE distrusted over any other minority group in America. As a whole such a small minority is never or barely heard from and their views are never expressed anywhere in media till only recently. This is what occurs when religious fundies attack education and science and put an untested, unsupported idea like Intelligent Design that's grounded in religion and attempt to sneak it by and inject it into public schools.

"From the 105 atheist-themed stories that CMI reviewed, eighty percent had a positive tone while 20 percent were neutral. Surprisingly, no feature stories were negative."

Are you kidding? I can recall off the top of my head a CNN interview where the tag line for the topic was. 'Why are atheists hated', and there were 3 speakers and none of which were non-believers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbjIYvXpvLM

“The most striking example of Newsweek's imbalanced coverage, according to the report, was a story it ran in its May 14 issue, detailing Christopher Hitchens' critique on a book about Mother Teresa’s spiritual struggles”

Oh I see, so we can have news reports about some hic who swears she sees Jesus in a burnt piece of bread or cheese, but the second you have a published author on about atheism and how utterly bankrupt mother Teresa’s faith had become over the years, somehow, that’s not ok? Horrid logic.

“The segment, which aired May 9, led to a full program featuring a debate about the existence of God”

And boy did Kirk Cameron and Banana man look awfully wrong holding up strawman arguments like a ‘crocoduc’. They were luck they weren’t facing of against the likes of Hitchens or others, it would have been like Godzilla vs Bambi.

"If reporters use prominent atheists to offer opposing views on religion themed stories, they should – in equal measure – invite leading believers to provide perspective on stories about atheism," the report advised.”

Are they kidding? There have been numerous debates hosted over the past years, a recent one in Stanford, CA in which Ben Stein was the (somehow) moderator between Hitchens and Richards from the Discovery Institute.

Homeschooling and Parental Rights Under Attack in California

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Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:21 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

"Once again our judicial system moves to restrict religious and personal liberties"

I don't get it. how is this law a persicution of religious liberty? So, the writer of the article is equating non-home schooling as an attack on religion....how? Can't the people still attend their place of worhsip at home and after school anyways?

"With California ranking near the bottom in the quality of its public education system, a state-wide illiteracy rate of approximately 24 percent, and drop-out rates hovering around 30 percent'

Well you know why don't you....it's partially because of the huge influx of immigrants, illegal or not, to that state.