All I can say about this is WOW... are we living in the year 1300?  This show airs on satellite television all over the world.  But don't worry, even though the host

vows to kill and eat all Danish people over the cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad which appeared in a newspaper

the other host (11 year old girl) says

We are against the death of civilians on all sides.

...apparently, no one in Denmark is an innocent civilian?

ARTICLE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1037512/Pictured-The-TV-rabbit-preaching-hatred-telling-young-Muslims-kill-eat-Jews.html 

 

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In an interesting article at Slate, it is explained how Saudi Arabia freely distrubutes government produced textbooks that openly tell their readers to hate non-believers [in the Muslim faith] and that you are not a true believer if you do not hate them (this is pointed at you as well Christians/Jews).

Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question that appears in a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, Monotheism and Jurisprudence, in a section that attempts to teach children to distinguish "true" from "false" belief in god:

Q. Is belief true in the following instances:
a) A man prays but hates those who are virtuous.
b) A man professes that there is no deity other than God but loves the unbelievers.
c) A man worships God alone, loves the believers, and hates the unbelievers.

The correct answer, of course, is c). According to the Wahhabi imams who wrote this textbook, it isn't enough just to worship god or just to love other believers—it is important to hate unbelievers as well. By the same token, b) is also wrong. Even a man who worships god cannot be said to have "true belief" if he loves unbelievers.

READ MORE: http://www.slate.com/id/2195684/

A very interesting discussion on how underground salamanders with vestigal eyes make a strong claim against ID (though it is almost pointless to use logic against an illogical claim).  I would love to hear the arguments against that are not the old: "they are put there by God to test your faith" because that one is getting really lame...

Vestigial eyes, for example, are clear evidence that these cave salamanders must have had ancestors who were different from them—had eyes, in this case. That is evolution. Why on earth would God create a salamander with vestiges of eyes? If he wanted to create blind salamanders, why not just create blind salamanders? Why give them dummy eyes that don't work and that look as though they were inherited from sighted ancestors?

READ MORE: http://www.slate.com/id/2195683

Stuff like this makes me fear that we are approaching a new Dark Age.  We may as well live in the Middle East (which I do right now) with all of their overboard fanatacism; ours is becoming much the same.  This is in response to a Florida student who took a communion wafer out of the church and was quickly followed up with death-threats and cries of hate-crime from those 'good' Catholics.  Funny thing is that Fox (who originally ran the story) took down the story... Here is a sample:

 

"We don't know 100% what Mr. Cooks motivation was," said Susan Fani a spokesperson with the local Catholic diocese. "However, if anything were to qualify as a hate crime, to us this seems like this might be it."

We just expect the University to take this seriously," she added "To send a message to not just Mr. Cook but the whole community that this kind of really complete sacrilege will not be tolerated."

 

The saddest part is that Webster (the student) actually feared for his life for what he 'did'. How is this any better than threatening a cartoonist for a portrayel of a prophet? Answer: IT ISN'T!

 

Webster just wants all of this to go away. Especially now that he feels his life is in danger.

 

Things like this make me fear for the US.

 

ARTICLE: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/its_a_goddamned_cracker.php

He somewhat quote Jefferson; I bolded the part he seemed to have forgotten...

 

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

 

Isn't it odd that he forgot just that one line?  Then again, in one of his many discussions with God he might have been told to leave it out, because that's probably not really what Jefferson meant anyways.

 

READ MORE: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php

Ah George... we're gonna miss you!

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