14 Apr 08 Quote of the Day: Christopher Hitchens
In response to the Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit the United States:
If Ratzinger is not asked at every stop he makes, and in level yet firm tones, why he and the Vatican continue to shelter Cardinal Law, our profession will have shamed and disgraced itself. We already know that the Pope is a Roman Catholic. What we need to hear is his reason for giving sinecure and asylum to the man who organized and excused the rape and torture of tens of thousands of American children. And then, when he has given his first answer, we need to hear how he answers all the supplementary questions.
This is from the Washington Post’s ongoing “interactive” feature about the state Catholicism, On Faith. Personally, I think they should have gone with a jazzier title, ‘Catholicism WOW!’ (tip: Dogma), or perhaps something more politically oriented, ‘Pope Watch 2008′.
The reason I put the word interactive in quotes is because, though touted as such, there isn’t much interaction beyond a normal story gallery. Right now it is mostly just print stories dressed up with graphics and a powder blue color scheme and a single video. I assume they are going to add more during the Pope’s visit, but they should have started it off with a bang. Perhaps an audio slideshow of Benedict’s history or even of Catholicism.
The Washington Post has the resources to do a lot more (and win Pulitzer’s). We’ll have to see how they play this out.
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05 Dec 07 Sherri Shepard, "Nothing predates Jesus."
OK, so I lied. No break. I just couldn’t help but post this video of The View co-host Sherri Shepard once again showing how blatantly ignorant she is. Would someone please give this woman a history lesson or get her off the damn television?
Yikes.
Related Links13 Nov 07 Really America?
They are seriously and honestly discussing the “Power of Prayer” on Anderson Cooper 360 tonight. Guests include Dr. Mehmet Oz (of the uber-selling You books) and Dr. Deepak Chopra. I’ve lost just a tiny, tiny bit of respect for my boy Cooper.
What the f–k?
Also, the Governor of Georgia publicly prayed for rain.
Did the last 1000 years suddenly not happen? I mean for crying out loud people, we’re doing face transplants now! I think we can stop looking toward the heavens to save our dying. We’ve got science!
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again:
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08 Aug 07 Quote of the Day:
Related Links“Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. […] A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.”
-Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
13 Jul 07 Hindu Clergyman Gets the Christian Welcome.
So for the first time the Senate, which has a white-Christian majority, invited a Hindu priest to conduct the morning prayer. A fine show of good faith if you’re into that sort of thing I suppose. Not surprising however Rajan Zed got a good old-fashioned Christian welcome as protesters disrupted Zed by shouting, ‘this is an abomination!’ Aw, how sweet.
Once again Christian “tolerance” rears its misshapen head. Granted these were just a few random extremists but I bet they aren’t alone in their anger. What’s funny is that people always claim, “…this country was founded my Christians.” Actually, many of our forefathers and most influential Americans (Lincoln, Franklin, Adams) were non-religious. The only thing written about religion in the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, is the freedom of it (and from it I would hope.)
Then again, I’m a hell bound atheist so what do I know?
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