Fantastic! A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking Of course, having a book in your hands is better, but this is great! One of the best books ever written to help the ordinary person understand a lot of the “big” concepts we understand of the universe without being condescending.
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Secular Ethics and Evidently Inherently Lawless Christians
Listening to Penn Jillette’s radio show, and he mentioned some conversation he had with some self-appointed religious morality police on an interview once, where the guy brought up the common Christian arguement that without God why not start murdering and raping and pillaging, and Penn (a flaming atheist) felt creeped out by this guy and [...]
READ MORE »So Much For Personal Responsibility
One of the tenants of the Republican Platform is “personal responsibility.” It was touted during the Reagan years and is supposedly part of the Republican “values platform” now. You can read a recent take of mine on Republican “values” here: Is This The Morality, The Values Issues of Which You Spoke Of? But this scandal [...]
READ MORE »Oh, Sweet Irony! Banning a book about banning books during Banned Book Week!
This is hilarious, and terribly sad: Houston Community Newspapers Online – Parent criticizes book ‘Fahrenheit 451′ “It’s just all kinds of filth,” said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read “Fahrenheit 451.” “The words don’t need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class.” He [...]
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