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I didn’t follow Jesse Helms much, probably because he was a bit before my time and already half-dead, but it appears he’s finally ready to take his dirt nap.  I’d like to reference a few of the more meaningful “advances” Helms made before he decided to call it a day.

• In 1950, Helms became an unofficial researcher for United States Senate candidate Willis Smith. Smith was a conservative Democratic lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association. While working on the primary campaign against Frank Porter Graham, Helms helped create an ad that read, “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors

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As I start out at the beginning of the Old Testament I feel it’s worth noting that I’m approaching this book as the irrefutable and infallible Word of God, and nothing short of that. The claim has been made by many fundamentalists, including the IBS, Falwell, and more that this book is the real deal. There is no in between. For example, Falwell said:

The Bible is the inerrant…word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

This theme is repeated again and again among the Christian faithful. So from this point on know that I am not reporting on this so much with the mindset of a person learning how a people completely alien to our culture used to believe, I’m reporting on this more as a true reference of history and of God’s Word to us. I’m told this book is dependable and I can trust it completely so that’s how I’m going to play it.

That said, let’s jump into it.

We start out with the creation of the sun, the earth, the stars, and the entire universe. If I were looking at this from the perspective of a person who lived three or four thousand years ago it might be believable. But I’m alive now in 2008 with far more knowledge than these people had and this story is total bullshit. This should in no way ever be used by anyone, anytime to represent the actual process in which the Earth, the solar system, or the universe itself actually formed. This text was obviously …read more »

I was watching a particularly amusing video clip sent by a friend to me of Sean Hannity having his ass handed to him by Christoper Hitchens and Hannity, in true Fox News fashion, pulls out the same tired old list of atheist mass murderers in an attempt to vilify and dehumanize atheists across the world. O’Reilly does the same thing, as do a number of conservative ditto heads. He sites Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Joseph Stalin in particular. He refers to atheists as “good atheist communists” which is almost juvenile in its intended misrepresentation and blatant misdirectional “slight of hand”. He’s pulling the same routine, attempting to imply that these people committed their heinous crimes because of their atheism, not because they were homicidal megalomaniacs.

The non-belief in a deity has little more to do with the motivation for these people’s crimes than their hair color or their favorite food. If someone is homicidal they’ll find a way to carry out their plans, regardless of religion. Religion can be twisted any which way; it’s not an impediment to immorality. It’s the same old tired argument, made time and time again to inextricably combine morality with religion. It’s a tactic fundamentalists have used for centuries and they’re still doing it today. It’s tired, it’s old, but, apparently, it’s effective.

Since Hannity has decided that all atheists are “good atheist communists” and are mass-murderers then I thought I’d present a list of other atheists to “watch out for”. You might be surprised by this list which includes the likes of Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Berkeley Breathed, Warren Buffett, Rodney Dangerfield, Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, Katharine Hepburn, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Diane Keaton, Bruce Lee, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Julianne Moore, Desmond Morris, Jack Nicholson, Ron Reagan Jr., Keanu Reeves, Gene Roddenberry, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Teller, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, William Shatner, and Linus Torvalds, just to name a few.

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After 73 years of hate, intolerance, and bigotry Falwell has finally succeeded in making the world a better place. As a farewell I’d like to present a few quotes by the dearly departed: …read more »