The Golbal Warming Catastrophe in ChartsAll in all, I think we can safely conclude that global warming is unprecedented, impending, man-made, and catastrophic. The science is settled, and if you have the slightest shred of a doubt you are an annoying, ignorant, bigoted, Republican, anti-scientific big business oil/coal/whatever lobbyist who clubs baby seals and eats their hearts for breakfast!
This outrageous rhetoric is what you’d expect from a monk from the 14th century or over a loudspeaker while waiting hours for bread in Soviet Russia. Did God grant us the right to be happy? No. God does not exist. Rights don’t exist. Reality exists, and if it’s not obvious to you that a human being requires freedom to live as a human being, you are mentally ill.
There is nothing more significant to pursue but your own happiness. If you consider the pursuit of happiness to be overrated or somehow not a highest value, I can only conclude you wish to enslave me.
For those who might think Rick Santorum is a bit old-fashioned, they need look no further than his new book, “American Patriots.” The book goes back — way back — to recall the glory days of the Revolutionary War. “There are so many Revolutionary heroes and heroines from all walks of life,” writes Santorum, who seems…
The new version of Minecraft came out yesterday! My kids are thrilled, although we also got a copy of Halo 2 for our original XBOX yesterday, so there’s lots of competition for attention.
I guess the gloves are off, now. In America, where atheists are the most-hated minority, where 40% of people deny evolution, it’s typically off limits to bring attention to any article of faith. It’s a gentleman’s agreement: don’t mention how I pretend to drink my god’s blood and I won’t question your prophet’s marriage to a 9 year old girl. But the stakes are high. Mitt Romney has a slight edge in the polls. It must be too tempting now to resist pointing to that man behind the curtain.
But beware of the law of unintended consequences. Start laughing at someone else’s religion, and then you might find yourself amused by the absurdity of all religion. And after that, if you’re lucky, you’ll find yourself shedding your faith in the state as cure-all. That’s why I like Obama. He answers Romney’s bland pragmatism with raw nihilism. If we can only survive another four years of this self-destruction, we might have nothing left to rely on but the truth.
BEHIND THE VEIL: Never-Before-Seen Footage of Secret Mormon Temple Rituals
Mormon temple ceremonies are a closely held secret. Until now. For the first time in the 170+ year history of secret Mormon temple activity, those activities…
