Are Black People Dumber Than White People?Thursday, November 15, 2007
Black people in our society are over-represented in the entertainment industry for reasons I dont exactly understand. Rappers, drug dealers, ballers, sitcoms about dysfunctional families; it seems often that they get more slapstick or delinquent rolls. Spike Lee makes commentary on this in the movi ... |
Slavery Never DiedThursday, November 15, 2007
The United Nations Childrens Fund estimates that over 120 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work full time in the world today.1 The situations of at least eight million of these children fit even conservative definitions of slavery.2 Everyday, millions of kids that have either ... |
The Stupidest ReligionThursday, November 15, 2007
In our society we arent supposed to criticize religions for some reason. A religion is an ideology of sorts, and we are allowed to criticize most ideologies. But a religion is a special type of ideology that we cant criticize. Why? Well, the answer must lie in what distinguishes a religion from ot ... |
Our Religious Forefathers IiThursday, November 15, 2007
This post is meant as an addendum to kindigs earlier posting here. Ive compiled a lot of founding father quotations on religion and the separation of church and state. I did my best to authenticate them, and everything here jives with what I was able to find on Google and what I already knew from ... |
A Treatise On MasturbationThursday, November 15, 2007
So for my job I travel around the country doing consulting, and right now I am in the south. The client I work with on a day-to-day basis is a total right wing nut job. A few examples of his right-wing-nut-jobbiness: He jokes about carpet-atomic bombing the Middle East. He thinks that AIDS h ... |
Was The Most Legitimate Form Of Christianity Destroyed?Thursday, November 15, 2007
As a disclaimer to this entry, I have never read The Da Vinci Code. I did not read it because scholars consider it to be historically problematic and I did not want incorrect information to be lodged in my brain. I am not even sure how much resemblance, if any, this entry will bear to the theories o ... |
Why I'm Not A ChristianThursday, November 15, 2007
I have been a religious seeker for about the past 6 years, and I want to emphasize that coming into the game I was fairly certain I was going to be a Christian. I remember telling my mother, I think I am going to be a Christian, mom, I just want to read the Bible first. My mom was very pleased, si ... |