The Perfect Marriage
According to the Bible, what should marriage not be, and more importantly what should marriage be?
Videos
Jesus says “Make war not love”?
According to Brother Jed, before he found Jesus he was a cowardly hippie having sex instead of fighting in Vietnam, but he would be killing people in Iraq today if he wasn’t so old. Is this really what Jesus would want, or did Jed get the wrong message?
Maybe converting to Christianity wasn’t the best thing for him. As little as I want to think of him making love, making war is much worse, and thinking that your killing is justified by the creator of the universe may give you a self-righteous feeling about your killing, but it doesn’t make your victims any less dead.
As Jed himself suggests at the end of the video, maybe he is a false prophet. Maybe we should think more broadly though and consider the likelihood that all “prophets” are false.
What’s the matter with you, Hat?
What’s the matter with you, Hat? is a song by Pink Munky which is basically just a bunch of samples of recordings of L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology saying crazy, racist and just plain stupid things.
Did you know that not smoking enough causes lung cancer? I guess either Scientologists haven’t heard the more crazy things Hubbard said or they’re just so brainwashed that they have to try to explain away the most ridiculous parts rather than recognizing them for what they are and seeing the whole tapestry start to unravel. That seems to be the way it goes with a lot of religions/cults though…
Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Even those of us who have managed to divest ourselves of religion are not automatically immune to all forms of psychological trickery. This is an important point to remember, and it is very valuable to learn how to spot pseudoscience, logical fallacies and all manner of cons.
Although this is not something you can master in 40 minutes, the 40 minute movie “Here Be Dragons” is a good introduction to some of these issues. It may be too basic for some, but if you don’t already know the material it covers then it’s very much worth watching, and even if you think you know it, a fun little refresher course can’t hurt!
Piranha Morals
Religious people often ask where morals could possibly come from if there were no gods (or more often if their god wasn’t real). This video is not a complete explanation, but it should be enough to make more open-minded believers take another look at the issue of what morality is and where it comes from.
Saucers and Masons and Tares, oh my!
Wow, I intended to give Christians a break and post video of someone who believed in something completely crazy and unrelated, and then I picked one and watched a few of his videos and realized that I had failed. He’s actually some kind of a Christian too, he just believes that the world is run by reptilian aliens and Free Masons on top of it.
At first I was tempted to believe that he was making a very long and elaborate joke, but the more I watched the more I realized that I actually see someone on a fairly regular basis who seems to share some of the same beliefs!
I’m going to have to look into this whole reptilian/Free Mason conspiracy thing in more detail, especially since this guy claims that 99% of businesses are run by one or the other, and I’d hate to think I was funding a global conspiracy to destroy us, but for now let’s just sit back and enjoy the crazy.
Evolution vs. Creationism: Listen to the Scientists
Today we have something a little different. We often have lay people refuting creationism (which only shows how easy it is to do), but this time we have a whole series of videos with well spoken scientists who know more about their respective fields than almost anyone in the world explaining the basics of science, evolution and more.
Many of you will already be familiar with much of the material presented in these videos, but it is still good information and it is presented in a way that most people should understand it. I would recommend that creationists in particular watch some of these to clear up misconceptions that are encouraged by most of the popular creationist sites.
To start with, here’s one that many of the creationists I talk to should watch:
The Age of the Earth
The rest of the Evolution vs. Creationism series:
- Listen to the Scientists
- Is Evolution Just a Theory?
- No Controversy
- “Teach the Controversy”
- Is Hearing Both Sides Fair?
- Experts vs. Scientists-Peer Review
- The Process of Science
- Epistemology
- Purpose & Goals of Creationism
- History of Evolution v Creationism
- Evolution Essential to Education
- Pragmatic Value of Evolution
- Creationism’s Negative Effects
- Science Teachers Challenged
- Biblical Literalism
- The Age of the Earth
- Scientific Explanations & God
- Freedom of Religion
- Gaps in the Record & Complexity
- Origins of Cellular Life
- Some Beliefs in Creationism=50%
- Abuse of Science & Democracy
- Position of Science in U.S. Today
- Scientists Responsibility to Speak
Jesus and the Interpreter
Have you ever wondered why so few Christians follow everything that Jesus said they should do? Maybe this is the answer.
Pesky Preaching Penis
In part 19 of his “Why do people laugh at creationists?” series of videos, Thunderf00t responds to the claims made in a creationist video where an animated creationist teacher who looks like a giant penis bashes “evilution” and convinces a skeptical kid to accept creationist Christianity.
As usual, the creationist arguments are thoroughly destroyed.
Bad Claims: Population Supports Global Flood
In their attempts to prove the Bible true and to disprove evolution, I have heard creationists make many bad claims, but one of my creationist friends has recently taken to using three specific claims which he seems to think are unassailable. Yesterday we took one apart (the recession of the moon). Today the next comes down, and it comes down in a much worse way for creationists.