The Measure of All Things: December 2009

WWJD = WWID

What Would Jesus Do? = What Would I Do?

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/creating_god_in_ones_own_image.php

The Huckabee-Clemmons-religion connection

The following blog post lays out some very disturbing observations about how Mike Huckabee released a homicidal monster from prison because his religious beliefs blind him to reality.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/12/mike_huckabee_killed_maurice_c.php

Why Palin should never be President

This blog post makes the case against President Palin. It contains a blistering, and completely accurate, dismantling of her ability by a conservative writer who claims to be a "fan" of Palin.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/12/a_fan_reviews_palins_book.php#more

Belief Statement

I believe that the freedom of conscience is the most fundamental freedom, from which all other freedoms descend. I believe that there can be no real freedom without the freedom to think one's own thoughts and express one's own ideas without fear of harm or persecution. I believe that government should concern itself only with the actions of its citizens, not their thoughts and beliefs.

I believe that religion is not a force for good in the world. I believe that religious beliefs are not deserving of automatic and unquestioning respect. I believe that belief is less desirable than understanding. I believe that beliefs should be supported by facts. I believe that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I believe that science has a good track record of explaining the natural world and improving people's lives, and that religion does not. I believe that the world will be a better place when its people abandon irrational belief.

The preceding two paragraphs are not in conflict with each other. No one should be persecuted for his beliefs, but neither should he expect those beliefs to grant him privilege or respect.

In much of the world today, religion enjoys the support of the majority, and therefore feels little pressure to support its pronouncements with rational argument. The purpose of this blog is to increase, by some small amount, that pressure, and to demonstrate that religion, in the words of Christopher Hitchens, "poisons everything."

The Measure of All Things

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

WWJD = WWID

The Huckabee-Clemmons-religion connection

Why Palin should never be President

Belief Statement

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