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Bill O'Reilly You're Useless!

! A few videos that illustrate how useless Bill O'Reilly is to the world. Oh, he... more

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Science vs. God: How About Some Peace on Earth?

As America rearms for the annual War on Christmas, a new study provides some fresh... more

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‪God's Generosity...Or Not (Epic Fail)‬‏ - YouTube

The all-loving, all powerful christian god falls short of being all-loving. If he is... more

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"There is no God, there has never been a God, and this is heaven." Edward Madill is Wyla.

In mid June, I made a trip into the hills of Asheville, North Carolina, to document... more

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25 Myths About Religions Around the World

Something so personal, and sometimes controversial, as religious beliefs lends itself... more

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Bad Religion - Anarchy Evolution + 'The Dissent Of Man' free CD

Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God ...... Many people know Greg... more

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The God Debate II: Harris vs. Craig

It starts out slow , but the end questions are great !

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Supreme Court rules giving tax credits for donations to religious schools is not violation of 1st Amendment

Goodbye tax payer standing - the government now can encourage majority religions through tax credits... and there is nothing you can do to challenge it. Thank you Justice Kennedy.

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"In the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling about a school-choice program in Arizona, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion leaves intact a program that has disbursed almost $350 million of state funds, most of it to schools choosing students on the basis of religion.

The holding all but overrules a landmark decision of the Warren court, Flast v. Cohen. As Justice Elena Kagan says powerfully in her first dissent, “by ravaging Flast in this way,” the majority “damages one of this nation’s defining constitutional commitments.”

The First Amendment’s establishment clause — “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” — is meant to protect citizens even when they are not harmed. Before, under Flast, a taxpayer could ask a court to enforce this central right. Now, under this ruling, a taxpayer all but can’t, and any government can use the tax system to avoid challenges to financing of religion.

The only difference between cases considered under Flast since 1968 and the current one is the means of government spending. In past cases, it has come through appropriations. In this case, the money comes through a tax credit: any taxpayer can redirect up to $500 of what he or she owes the state to a nonprofit that uses the money for scholarships. What the court calls a tax credit and Arizona calls a voluntary cash contribution is, concretely, a redirected tax payment.

Justice Kennedy, in an opinion clearly intended to overturn legal precedent, says that the program’s financing comes from taxpayers taking advantage of this credit, not from the state, so the taxpayers bringing the lawsuit can claim no harm from the state and lacked standing to sue. To Justice Kagan, “this novel distinction,” has “as little basis in principle as it has in our precedent.” Whether a state finances a program with cash grants or targeted tax breaks, the effect is the same. Taxpayers bear the cost.

Since the Flast case, she writes, “no court — not one — has differentiated between these sources of financing in deciding about standing.” In five cases where taxpayers challenged tax expenditures, the court has dealt with the merits “without questioning the plaintiffs’ standing.” The court has relied on some of these decisions as “exemplars of jurisdiction” in other cases. (“Pause on that for a moment,” the justice entreats.)

When this case was argued last fall, the convolutions of the Arizona program seemed intended to mask its violation of the Constitution. The court’s ruling is another cynical sleight of hand, which will reduce access to federal courts while advancing endorsement of religion. "Goodbye tax payer standing - the government now can encourage majority religions... more

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The Top 25 Atheist Blogs You Must Read

If you don’t believe in God and find yourself in little company when it comes to... more

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Proof, Atheists Don't Exist

- In this video you will see proof that atheists don't exist.

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How Many Secularists and Non-Secularists Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

America is an unhappy place. Opposing forces bludgeon each other bloody. As Mitch... more

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WHY DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD WHEN YOU CAN’T EVEN PROVE THAT HE EXIST?

I believe in God because, He has never told me anything that would hurt me, nor has He... more

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The God Complex | Mark Pirro's Comedy Bible Movie

Trailer for Mark Pirro's new bible comedy "The God Complex" -- the... more

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A Flowchart To Determine What Religion You Should Follow (PHOTO) - The Daily Blender

A Flowchart To Determine What Religion You Should Follow

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Age-ism - BTR

Listen to this show starting at 9:00 p.m. MST Its topics center around the concept of... more

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Is God A Lie or Dead?

Religious fanatics gathered at the corner of S. Congress Ave. and Oltorf St. to proselytize religious lies. Was man made by God in his image or has man made God in our ignorance and weakness? Atheist pedestrians engaged in an open debate about sin, God and the question of how natural beings, such as humans, can't understand the supernatural realm. Also mentioned was the question of where one seeks forgiveness as a way to overcome sins, God or inner self? ; One of the atheists argued that God was not necessary and is actually a distraction from solving problems.

Friedrich Nietzsche is notable for having declared that God is dead and for having written several of his works in the presumption that man must find a new mode of being given the demise of God. Perhaps the most interesting quote on this theme appears in his The Gay Science ( aka Joyous Wisdom). A fairly full version of this key quote is set out immediately below:

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!" As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."

Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."

It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"

This is a zgraphix production.
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