Archive for the ‘religion’ tag
Off to fight in the zombie apocalypse, Yo Soy 132, more Occupy legal victories
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Allison and Jamie realize they will fight in the zombie apocalypse, Yo Soy 132 movement, more Occupy legal victories, the importance of physical occupations, and this creepy video of a 5-year-old singing “no homos gonna make it to heaven” in church.
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Separating church and state: employers and birth control; Rick Perry can’t pray the baddies away
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President Obama gives a speech focusing on the deficit over mass unemployment, London burns, defining the term “looting,” dismantling the “real men eat meat” myth, religious employers might soon be able to determine if they feel like paying for women’s birth control, and Gov. Perry fails to pray the baddies away.
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CNN’s Don Lemon, independent journalist Austin Mackell on Egypt, Libya
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CNN’s Don Lemon (@donlemoncnn) joins the show to discuss his book, Transparent, coming out, growing up as a gay, religious, black man, the process of getting important stories on CNN, and his appearance on The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Most importantly, he forgives and now eternally loves, Allison.
Next, independent journalist Austin G. Mackell (@austingmackell) reports on Egypt, including the ongoing torture by the military and the progress of labor unions. Mackell also recently visited Libya, and he and Allison engage in a brief debate about the merits of the NATO bombing campaign.
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Drone ‘growth market’, John McCain blames wildfires on immigrants, religion still be crazy
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Drone ‘growth market’, John McCain AKA Grandpa Simpson blames wildfires on immigrants, a lesbian couple gets kicked out of a baseball game for kissing, Miss USA was one of two contestants to correctly answer a question about evolution, religion is still crazy, eating vegan is totally affordable, and the overuse of SWAT teams.
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Journalist Laurie Penny on UK protests, Jamie, Roy Wood Jr, Jackie Kashian on religion
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April Fools! Citizen Radio didn’t have the heart to pull several different brilliant pranks on you guys. You’re welcome. Allison interviews journalist Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) about the UK protests and the media’s fixation on a small group of so-called anarchists. Later, Citizen Radio plays the audio from an Aspen comedy panel on religion featuring Jamie, Roy Wood Jr. (Last Comic Standing,) and Jackie Kashian (Last Comic Standing).
Jamie will be at the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT April 9th.
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The end of the Internet, START, and the $2 trillion looming debt crisis
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Congressional Republicans finally decided it’d be better if we didn’t all perish in an nuclear holocaust. The FCC voted to end the Internet as you know it, and there is a looming $2 trillion debt crisis just on the horizon. Finally, Jamie reports on some crazy religious stories.
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Republicans: God approves of guns, rape
Chuck Grassley and Sharron Angle were both in excellent form today – each supplying their own special moment of WTF?! to stun the masses.
The first truth bomb was dropped by Chuck during the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings when he informed the unwashed mouth-breathers in the audience that God — not the Constitution — gives Americans the right to bear arms.
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If anyone can tell me why this doesn’t violate the separation of church and state, I’ll give you a shiny new nickel — or bullet — or however our creator likes to settle bartering exchanges.
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Then, there’s crazy, crazy Sharron Angle. Sometimes I imagine the lone, sane Republican standing somewhere in a wheat field, holding a gently swaying leash as he stares off into the distance vacantly, wondering if he’s made a hasty decision in allowing the Reno neophyte to scamper into the world on her own.
Unlike Rand Paul, Sharron just can’t hide the crazy, and she’s not savvy enough to pass off the delusional stuff spewing from her mouth as “being mavericky.” She’s been unable to shed her extremist past, and continues to promote debunked conspiracy theories about the abortion-breast cancer non-connection. Now, she’s dropped another turd.
Here is Sharron talking to Bill Manders on his radio show.
MANDERS: Is there any reason at all for an abortion?
ANGLE: Not in my book.
MANDERS: So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?
ANGLE: You know, I’m a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
You see, rape is just part of God’s majestic plan, ya’ll. Along with genocide and famine.
Texas whitewashing is latest stage of Textbook Wars
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It’s tempting to dismiss the recent whitewashing of history by the Texas Board of Education as a parochial problem. However, the board’s decisions to erase Thomas Jefferson, Cesar Chavez, the separation of Church and State (all while exalting the glories of Capitalism, The Heritage Foundation, and the Moral Majority) are more than poor judgments worthy of collective mockery. This kind of censorship and propaganda presents a grave danger to the public education system.
The Washington Monthly‘s Mariah Blake wrote a fantastic profile on the Texas Board of Education that I highly recommend be read in its entirety.
Blake includes this fascinating interaction with Don McLeroy, a man who would probably be dismissed as a raving lunatic were in not for the fact that he sits on the Texas Board of Education, and is one of the leaders of an activist bloc that holds enormous sway over the body’s decisions.
Irish atheists fight new blasphemy laws
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This past summer, a new law passed in Ireland which made blasphemy, the simple act of challenging or offending a religious belief, a punishable crime with a fine of up to €25,000 ($35,810). The scientist and religious critic, Richard Dawkins, called this a “return to the middle ages.”
As of yesterday, the law officially went into effect.
In a truly weird twist of logic, justice minister Dermot Ahern says the law is necessary because immigration has brought a growing diversity of religious faiths to Ireland, and yet the 1936 constitution extends religious protection to only Christians. So clearly, instead of protecting the rights to religious expression for all worshipers, Ireland needs institutionalized censorship.
Now, secular activists have defied the law, which officially came into force yesterday, by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations online and promising to fight the legislation in court.
Interview with author and activist, Tariq Ali
Citizen Radio interviews Tariq Ali, celebrated intellectual and the man who famously debated Henry Kissinger. A world-renowned activist, who the Rolling Stones named the song “Street Fighting Man” after, Tariq Ali spends the hour talking with Citizen Radio.
Tariq Ali talks with Citizen Radio about a range of subjects from the true definition of Socialism to his discussions with Malcolm X, and how he thinks atheists and religious people can work together to make the world a better place.
Listen here. Transcript is posted below. Please feel free to repost both the interview and transcript, but please credit Citizen Radio.
Tariq Ali is the author of the new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power.
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Jamie Kilstein: Recently, on FOX News – and actually all news stations – we’ve kind of been hearing Obama denounced as a Socialist. They’ll be like, “No one wants socialized healthcare,” or “socialized banks,” and I think, for the first time, there are some people who are like, “Yeah, we do. We kind of do. That sounds really nice.” But Obama didn’t have anyone who represents single-payer healthcare at his health conference, and the banks are getting our money, and we’re not getting anything in return. So first, I wanted you to give the actual definition of Socialism because I think it’s mischaracterized a lot here, and second, why you think decrying Socialism has been such a successful scare tactic in a country where rich-poor divide is so large.
Tariq Ali: There are many definitions of Socialism. The simplest way to define it, I guess, would be: the ownership of public utilities and things important to the economy and the land by the state in the interests of the common people. I would go beyond that and say where public utilities are owned by the state, my definition of Socialism would also include the people, who work in these utilities, playing a part in determining how they are run, and not allowing the state to nominate bureaucrats to them. That has never really happened anywhere, but given the crisis into which Socialism fell in the ‘90s, I think you need more and more democracy at every level of functioning.
Read the rest of the interview behind the cut.
