Bad Sunday for Christianity

[UnrepentantSinner]

It's kid of ironic that on a Sunday morning I was able to spend several hours viewing television dedicated to investigating atheism and the social/legal war against the Religious Right.

CBS Sunday Morning (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/16/sunday/main3174781.shtml) had a cover story on atheism featuring Julia Sweeny, Hitchens, and a response by Stephen Prothero (author of "Religious Literacy"). Video is availible on the link.

Thankfully C-SPAN also put up video for Michael Weinsteins (http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8493&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No) scathing critique of evangelicals and the military. I love Book TV. :)

Earlier, and unfortunately I missed most of it, was God on Trial by Peter Irons (http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8333&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No). He discusses a lot of the important Church/State cases of the last century or so - Santa Fe v. Doe, Newdow, Decalogue, etc.

[David Swidler]

That sounds like a good holiday to institute. They've already got Good Friday, so Bad Sunday works. Especially in Israel, where it's the beginning of the work week...

[UnrepentantSinner]

Holiday or Holy Day? The former would only come once a year, the other could be every week.

[Beerina]

Holiday = Holy Day

Many more religious, and older, calendars mark off Sundays as red days, just like Christmas and Easter. There is no distinction.

A day is either holy or it isn't, e'en if some carry a little more weight.

[Ichneumonwasp]

I love BookTV too, but Weinstein was one angry dude.

Of course he has every right to be angry with what he's gone through. Some of his stories were scary.

[UnrepentantSinner]

A day is either holy or it isn't...

Pedantic tanget aside, is the Independance Day holiday holy or not? :p

I love BookTV too, but Weinstein was one angry dude.

Of course he has every right to be angry with what he's gone through. Some of his stories were scary.

He was angry, he had every right to be, and I loved it.

A lot of evangelicals who go on and on about "Judeo-Christian" this or that seem to forget that a lot of Jews aren't real thrilled by the "No King but Jesus" mentality as espoused by people like John Ashcroft.

[JoeTheJuggler]

A lot of evangelicals who go on and on about "Judeo-Christian" this or that seem to forget that a lot of Jews aren't real thrilled by the "No King but Jesus" mentality as espoused by people like John Ashcroft.

And some Jews are just as Machiavellian as the evangelicals. There's sort of an unholy alliance (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/17/jews.christians/index.html) going on.

The evangelicals need Israel to occupy certain territories to fulfill their weird end-times prophecies, so they can all be raptured off to heaven while the Jews burn in hell. These Jews are courting the evangelicals for their money and influence because they want to occupy the lands that other people don't want to leave. They don't believe in any of the Jesus-Messiah nonsense, but aren't above going to their churches to solicit support.

And they say we atheists don't have any moral grounding!

[MelBrooksfan]

Well, if they can causing a parting between fools and their money using the very dogma those fools hold dear, let 'em.

[UnrepentantSinner]

Hitchens will be on Book TV Sun Sept. 2nd at noon eastern.

Set your VCRs/DVRs if you can't watch live.

[UnrepentantSinner]

I'd love to watch but on Sun. Sept. 2 I'll be on a cruise ship sharing dinner with Randi, BA and Hal so I won't be able to watch Hitchens discussing God Is Not Great on Book TV. It will air at noon EDT.

[Beerina]

That's what TiVo is for.

[Skeptic Ginger]

I've been contemplating getting TiVo. At first I thought it was a bit too much to add to the data mining files but now that seems like such a moot issue. They know what I buy at the grocery store and what books I get at the library, it doesn't seem like knowing what I watch on TV matters a whole lot more.

I also love book TV.

I'm also glad to see the mass media doing a little more than rolling over for this latest Evangelical movement.

[Tanstaafl]

Hey, skeptigirl, I just noticed the Darwin fish in your signature. Very cool!

[saizai]

I don't see a video on the first and third links. Could you give a more direct link?

Thanks!

[supercorgi]

I've been contemplating getting TiVo.

Get TiVo or a DVR. I love my DVR! I hardly ever watch "live" TV anymore. I record all the shows I like and then fast forward through all the commercials. It makes TV watching much more pleasant and less time consuming. :)

[Skeptic Ginger]

Hey, skeptigirl, I just noticed the Darwin fish in your signature. Very cool!
Thanks. There are a number of possibilities. The rest are mostly versions of dead fish. I figured this one out by just playing around but I'm sure I wasn't the first.

I'm working on building my rocket ship.

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But as you can see it still needs tinkering. :D

[Skeptic Ginger]

Get TiVo or a DVR. I love my DVR! I hardly ever watch "live" TV anymore. I record all the shows I like and then fast forward through all the commercials. It makes TV watching much more pleasant and less time consuming. :)I tried the VCR thing in the past. I just never got around to setting up the recording schedule. That requires reading a TV guide and all.

I hadn't realized TiVo was only about $10/month. That would be worth it. I could record the whole book TV weekend then skip past the authors I wasn't interested in.

[UnrepentantSinner]

I don't see a video on the first and third links. Could you give a more direct link?

There wasn't any video for those links.