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T-Shirt Hell Going Out of Business
January 28, 2009 on 7:16 pm | 7 CommentsSave 10% on all orders throughout liquidation
I have enjoyed laughing at T-Shirt Hell’s irreverently humorous shirts for over 7 years now.
I placed an order today for two of my favorite shirts today. Below are some of my favorite religiously themed shirts from the site. Get one while you can.
More great shirts after the jump.
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Glenn Beck is a Douche
January 27, 2009 on 10:58 am | 13 CommentsFirst, let me state that Glenn Beck is a worthless blowhard that does not belong on any network. He makes flimsy arguments, and in true one-sided pundit fashion, he only ever has guests on to support his worldview to his sheep-like audience. On the off occasion that someone of a differing opinion joins him on screen, he treats them just like his network’s papa bear, Bill O’Reilly, and never lets them get a sentence out edgewise amid all of the interruptions, sour looks, and instant, fallacious refutations.
Glenn Beck is to logical discourse what the bubonic plague was to medieval longevity. He wouldn’t recognize a concrete argument if it sat on his face. I get douche chills in my spine just watching this short segment.
As with many examples of fundamentalist ideology that I present, this one is also replete with more flaws and fallacies than can reasonably be addressed given my limited time resources and the internet’s limited bandwidth resources. But as always, I’ll touch on a few of the more glaring cases.
“90% of us believe in God yet we seem to be pushed around by 10%”
This type of ignorance can only come from being deeply ethnocentric, as a fair amount of religious folks tend to be. When exactly have Christians been pushed around? It seems to me that when you send your children to a public, government-funded school, it doesn’t really matter what your opinion is on any matter, because in the end, the government will dictate the agenda for said school. Don’t like it? Send your kids to private school. Then they can pray all day long, have Bible study, do stations of the cross, play wholesome Christian sports, and learn to be a bigot in entirely new and creative ways.
“blah blah some people want to remove God from this country altogether. Right here. This nation under God.”
We have only officially been a “nation under God” since 1954, when that phrase was legislated into existence after pressuring from religious groups. To quote the Rev. George Macpherson Docherty:
“These words ['under God'] will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us to keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man, and upon which our way of life is founded.”
Riiiight. Or they will be used by religious fanatics to insist that this country has been officially blessed by an all-knowing God, thus making us his second group of chosen people.
“You can’t even use the word ‘prayer’ in school.”
Wrong. You are wrong. The decision of the judge in Illinois did not ban prayer from schools, or ban the use of the word ‘prayer’ in schools. Children can do whatever they like during moments of silence. If they want to pray, that should be something that they would have wanted to do with that time anyway. They should not need to be instructed on the various ways in which 30 seconds can be used. Leave them to their imaginations. I’m sure toddlers can figure it out on their own. If their depth of faith is so great that they want to submerge themselves in prayer, they will do so. If they want to color, they will do so.
“Are the children of atheists so fragile that the idea of prayer could actually warp their minds?”
No they are not. Children of atheists, for the most part, already have a good foundation in logic and critical thinking. However, all children are extremely impressionable, and were it not for their parents dictating to them what they must believe to go to Heaven after death (another concept they probably haven’t even fully come to terms with).
That’s it. I’m spent. I’m only 1:17 into this video, and I can’t suffer any more. What is your favorite piece of ‘wisdom’ from Glenn or Jimmy Dobs in this video?
Poll Results: Oath of Office Verbiage
January 20, 2009 on 2:51 pm | 3 Comments
This poll ran for just nine days, so it had a significantly smaller sample from which to draw results than my last poll regarding winter celebrations of choice. I would run this poll longer, however, I feel that after today, the issue would not be nearly as timely. I would like to open the comment section of this post up for any debate on the the issue.
Here are the results from the poll:
- It is a state ceremony and should be free of religious references. – 24 votes
- It is the personal decision of the President-Elect, whose wishes should be respected. – 9 votes
- I could care less. – 4 votes
- This is the first I’m hearing about this. – 0 votes
I’m certainly glad there were no votes for the final option, as it had even come to the attention of national mainstream media outlets.
I thank you for taking the time to vote, and I hope that you will expand upon your votes through discussion in the comments.
P.S. If you didn’t get a chance to read the Christopher Hitchens piece on Rick Warren that appeared on Slate.com, I highly recommend it.
Religulous DVD Release on February 17th
January 17, 2009 on 2:27 am | 1 Comment
Even though only ten days ago, I had no idea, Amazon has now listed a release date for Religulous. On February 17th, you and I will become owners of a great documentary that we can add to our arsenal of reason when we defend our decisions and illustrate lunacy. For the value price of $19.99, you can pre-order the DVD today.
Please take a moment to Digg, Stumble, or share this post on Facebook to help get the word out on this film. If you didn’t get to see it in the theater, it can be your personal way of thanking Bill Maher for a great movie.
New Poll: Presidential Oath of Office Verbiage
January 11, 2009 on 3:29 am | 3 Comments
There has been a lot of talk lately about the specific wording used in the Presidential Oath of Office that President-Elect Obama will recite on January 20th. A lawsuit was filed in an effort to prevent any mention of God in the traditional “so help me God” line of many swearings in. President-Elect Obama has filed an affidavit stating his preference to include the aforementioned phrase in his swearing in.
What are your thoughts? Vote in the poll in the left sidebar and comment with any additional thoughts on the subject.
Religulous Available Soon on DVD
January 7, 2009 on 1:38 am | 5 CommentsSo I finally saw Religulous while it was in theaters. Granted, I had to drive over 100 miles each way to see it, but every mile was worth it. I’m not a patient person, but I had no problem braving urban traffic in the rain knowing that I was going to see this film. My friend Megan was along for the ride, equally excited to see the film and equally angry that the film was not being shown anywhere in our state (it starts with “A” and ends with “labama”).
Like many of you, I am anxiously awaiting the release of the DVD, so that I may begin showing it to everyone who enters my home. I do this with another documentary as well that I won’t mention due to its political nature. However, I will say that I have opened a few eyes as a result of my screenings. I intend to do the same with this film. No concrete release date has been publicized at this time, but given the average turn-around time from screen to shelf, I’d say it has to be sometime fairly soon.
You can pre-order a copy of the DVD at Amazon at this time for $20.99. A cool feature that Amazon has is their Pre-Order Price Guarantee, which will refund you the difference in price if the price drops before it is actually released. You can also grab the Religulous cloud poster and toast poster if you want to decorate your room in a secular motif.
One last thing I wanted to share. I had copied this clipping (I don’t remember the source) from some time ago.
Bill Maher’s anti-religion documentary Religulous is on track to become the highest-grossing documentary of the year by next Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Wednesday). The film had already grossed more than $7 million in its first ten days at just 568 theaters. Ironically, the film is due to displace Expelled, Ben Stein’s creationist documentary, which grossed $7.7 million during its domestic run earlier this year. (It opened at 1,052 theaters.) In reporting on the box-office success of the two films, the Times commented that it “just does to show that when it comes to religion and movies, the box office is agnostic.”
Not only is it fantastic that it performed so well in it’s first ten days of limited release, but I am happy to report that with a total box office earnings of $12,995,673, Religulous has well surpassed Expelled which capped at $7,499,617 (Source: Yahoo Movies).
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