cbc.ca — Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer prize winning writer and former New York Times correspondent, compares the U.S. Christian right to 20th Century fascism. Hedges openly blasts the role of Christianity in politics and discusses how the far right Christian believers are perpetuating bigotry and intolerance.
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proseandpromiseDec 24, 2007
The Bible was not written 400 years after Jesus' death. It was canonized then. And it was not done by "Romans" necessarily anymore than Jesus or Paul was a Roman - everyone in the area was technically "Roman" so you could live in Egypt like Augustine and be Roman. The earliest books themselves would have been written about 20 or 30 years after Christ's death, with later books continuing to be written, some as late as 150 AD. Then, around 400, an official list of canonical books arose, though potential lists existed as early as 250 AD.
bratpack8Dec 25, 2007
You are certainly welcome to your opinion, as am I. This is a prime reason why we shouldn't have government schools in the first place, because each group wants to force their views upon the other. It should be decided on the local level, and there should be plenty of competition. I truly have no problem letting you place your kids in a school were they only teach evolution, I prefer to let my kids know about both.
squigglypDec 26, 2007
No, you misunderstand my post. I understood all the words. The problem is that you have words up there trying to exist next to each other in such a way as they make no sense. I generally 'get' what you were trying to say, but barely. You are obviously cribbing out of a thesaurus without really knowing how to make those big words work for you. You try to sound intelligent, but you can't figure out "there" "they're" and "their", grammar generally eludes you and you use 8 adjectives in a row. "unraveling at a degree of incoherent lies" makes no sense at all. There are so many errors in your text it would take me several paragraphs to explain them all. That's no exaggeration.Don't use some idiotic metaphor to try to insult me. f**k knows I won't. You're a f**king idiot. Nothing in your first post makes any sense whatsoever, and your own "willful ignorance" in regards to that faulty religion you've allowed to brainwash you is only adding to the list of reasons no one will ever take you seriously in any sort of debate.All it boils down to is this: You believe some s**t. That's f**king great for you. I'm glad you've found some mystical fairy-tale that lets you somehow drag yourself through your miserable life with a smile on your face. But the rest of us SANE PEOPLE don't need or want that kind of s**t controlling our lives. So don't force our kids to learn your goofy s**t in school. Don't make decisions for the rest of us based on your faulty logic. You want to live in a christian nation, i suggest you go find yourself a nation to populate, cause this one belongs to me. if you can stop being a whiny bitch when your pastor doesn't get to dictate laws for the rest of us, well then... I guess you would be allowed to stay at that point.
johnnickDec 27, 2007
Well, for some Dawkins borders on prophet and "God Delusion" is their bible. ;-) There are knee-jerk, reactionary types on both sides who spout quotations without actually understanding what they mean. (No, I don't actually consider it a holy book and I understand that atheism isn't a religion.)
proseandpromiseDec 29, 2007
Evils in society: meaningless living, busy-ness, the American dream, materialism, individualism, hunger, AIDS, slavery, sex-addiction, substance abuse, etc.When you righties start talking about some (or pretty much any) of those things in terms of how we HELP, and not condemn, people who are victims of evil in the world, then I'll buy your rhetoric about speaking about evil. It is the nature of the atonement to save people from sin and the effect of sin. We are to be a people that work to liberate people from the brokenness of life. This must manifest itself in more than telling people not to have sex and not to kill fetuses.