Monday, December 5, 2011

The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says

Here is proof that you can't believe everything broadcasted from Fox News. Eric Bolling actually accused the new Muppets movie of trying to indoctrinate kids against capitalism and push communism into their minds. Wait...it gets even more ludicrous:

"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.

"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."


And worse:

"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."


Oh yes! I get it now! So according to Bolling Jamie Peck was wrong to write:

You heard right: the Occupy Wall Street movement was caused by Saturday morning cartoons. Corporate greed, lack of access to healthcare, and anger over having to pay for the fallout of mortgage backed securities fraud are but excuses to obey their one true fuehrer, a guy who only appears when all their powers combine.


*Snicker*

Pecker makes good points. Speaking as one who was raised on such programming, it wasn't Captain Planet that taught us that the world was broken by corporate greed. It was the oil spills, the lying, and cheating. The gap growing between rich and poor and the lie that if we go to school and work within the system we will get our piece of the American Dream. Not to mention all the lies in history class and way people oppressed in society. You can see watch Bolling in the following clip.





The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
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Philosopher Interview: Alvin Plantinga - Apologetics 315

Brian Auten has posted his interview of Dr Alvin Planting! Just plain awesome. Follow the link to hear it.

Philosopher Interview: Alvin Plantinga - Apologetics 315
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Outbreak! : History’s Deadliest Pandemics [infographic] | Daily Infographic


 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 8All these are the beginning of sorrows. - Matthew 24:6-8


Outbreak! : History’s Deadliest Pandemics [infographic] | Daily Infographic
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ConflictMap.org - map of armed conflicts

Follow this link to see an often update map of armed conflicts in a really great Google Maps application.

ConflictMap.org - map of armed conflicts
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Steven Pinker Argues That People Are Now Less Violent

Steven Pinker
Image by Better Than Bacon via Flickr
Dr Steven Pinker does not believe that human race is becoming more violent but instead argues that violence is decreasing. I think he's completely crazy. However he has arguments and has written papers and given lectures defending his position.





Here is a short presentation:


Here is a longer presentation:


I'm planning a longer response but in the meantime here is rebuttal to his conclusions.

Refuting Steven Pinker’s “A History of Violence” by Jonathan Shockley
Delusions of peace by John Gray

I think that this actually illustrates a passage in the Old Testament
13 “From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. 15 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,” says the LORD. - Jeremiah 6:13-15
Sure God was speaking to Jeremiah's contemporaires but it sure matches today also.
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Conflict Map - Infographic

Here is an interesting and interactive infographic. It's a map of wars and armed conflicts of the 20th century. Just use the timeline beneath and see what happened over the span of time you chose and a handy map key even gives you details such as what started the hostilities.

Conflict Map
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Ali on first Black American President - YouTube

Back in the day Muhammad Ali gave his thoughts on a black American President in an interview decades ago. Take a look.




Ali on first Black American President - YouTube
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Flying Robots Are Construction Workers, Agents of Destruction


I want one of these!


Flying Robots Are Construction Workers, Agents of Destruction
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Herman Cain full speech 'I am suspending my presidential campaign' - YouTube

Herman Cain is the 2011 example that "ice skating" quote from the first Blade movie. Some people just don't know when the party is over.





Herman Cain full speech 'I am suspending my presidential campaign' - YouTube
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Prophet Muhammad Illustrated - Home




Prophet Muhammad Illustrated - Home

FacePalm of the Day #148 - Debunking Christianity: A Jealous God and Divine Domestic Violence

John Loftus posted the following quote and link:


If a human husband said that to his wife, we would classify it as domestic violence. And rightly so. It reflects a view of the wife as property, and the husband as her lord and owner with sovereign rights to inflict punishment on one who has “stolen” from him his exclusive right to “sow his seed” in a “field” that is his property....Presumably an image of God who would himself commit assault and battery against his wife is one that it is crucial to examine critically and rethink. Link.

It refers to the following picture:


I'm all for re-examining critically anything that leads to Domestic Violence. Domestic Violence needs to stop. God don't like. Neither should we. However you cannot correctly connect Domestic Violence with God's mandate to worship only him. There are several problems:

1. A husband and wife are equal to one another.and neither is ontologically inferior to the other.
2. A wife is not her husband's property - and the Bible does not say she is. 
3. Would this be just as disturbing if it was a wife saying it to her husband as it is a husband to his wife?  It's say "Yes" but it's unfortunate that adultery doesn't carry with it the shame and weight it used to. Is it right to execute someone for adultery? Yes, but not just the woman - both of them. We don't do it now because we have grace and mercy. But no one can tell me adultery is good with all the broken homes and lives left in its wake. Children's children are still dealing with the consequences of adultery years past. Imagine all the social problems we wouldn't have if people would just stick to their own spouse.
4. We belong to God. His command to only worship his isn't because he's jealous of  anyone. He is jealous for us. There is a difference.  He made us. He takes care of us. If you provide all the needs you are supposed to provide for your spouse, don't you expect them to not share their time, resource, or body with anyone else that belong to you? I do. Why shouldn't God?
5. It's even more pronounced with God. We owe him not only just for our creation but our own continued existence.That is what Christianity really teaches.
6. Let's use the Bible's full parallel to how God actually acts as a husband reacting to the  adultery of his wife. Does God break her neck?  No. But if I were treated the way he is, I'd be very hard not to. What we have done to God when we worship other gods is the same thing as a married person leaving their spouse, who has done  everything them, and choosing to become a drug-addled prostitute working for an abusive pimp. Read the book of Hosea and put your name in the place of  "Gomer"., You can have the same ending Gomer did too. God is offering it to you.
8. Going to hell is not equivalent to having your neck broken. Recall that Christian theology teaches that you can only die once. If you do indeed cheat on God, death will be the least of your concerns.
7. The Bible is very clear about who owns who in a marriage.

3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.- 1 Corinthians 7:3-5

Debunking Christianity: A Jealous God and Divine Domestic Violence
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3-D Printing May Hold Key to Bone Replacement

Print me a new Hip!




3-D Printing May Hold Key to Bone Replacement
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Answering Muslims: Who Is Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh?

David Wood posted this video about Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh. Apparently either many Muslims don't know about him or embarrassed by his story. Who better to determine whether or not Muhammad was true prophet and how the Qur'an came together but one of the first scribes of Islam.




Answering Muslims: Who Is Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh?
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Answering Muslims: Islam's Secret Santa

David Wood has done it again. Watch his argument showing a fundamental inconsistency in Islam that I was not aware of.



Answering Muslims: Islam's Secret Santa

Reference Materials for the Dividing Line of November 29, 2011

Today on the Dividing Line, James White responded to a Dave Barron on his debate on the Deity of Christ from last week against Patrick Navas. Before the program started, Dr White posted some reference material:

Reference Materials for the Dividing Line of November 29, 2011

The Dividing Line program can be found at the following link: Today on the Dividing Line: Response to Dave Barron/Patrick Navas

You can hear the debate here: The Deity of Christ/Trinity Debate with Patrick Navas on Chris Date's Theopologetics Podcast

The Crossan/Borg vs. White/Renihan 2005 Debate on the Resurrection




The Crossan/Borg vs. White/Renihan 2005 Debate on the Resurrection
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If Herman Cain Had an Affair, the Woman Was His Lover, Not His Victim - News - GOOD

I admit that I was offended when Herman Cain said the poor and unemployed are in that condition because it is their fault, but this is worse. If his spouse can't trust him to be faithful and he lie about it, why should I expect to be able to trust him to do the right things as President of the United States? I don't.








If Herman Cain Had an Affair, the Woman Was His Lover, Not His Victim - News - GOOD
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson [Video]

Check this out. Stephen Colbert and Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson sharing the same stage? I am definitely going to watch this one!




Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson [Video]

Sunday, November 27, 2011

SMU Debate: Can We Trust the Text of the New Testament? Daniel B. Wallace & Bart D. Ehrman

I just watched the October 1st debate between Dr Daniel Wallace and Dr Bart Ehrman. If you haven't seen it use the link below to order it on DVD. It's well worth it. Ehrman has changed his tune. He used to say that we know what the autographs say due to the work critical criticism but when Wallace quoted him saying that he said that he no longer believes that (link). I've got to give him more credit than Dan "Don't quote me, Bro!" Barker (look at this link if you didn't get the reference). At least Ehrman says he changed his mind instead of trying to pretend he never said it. Here is a trailer for the October 1st Debate.




SMU Debate: Can We Trust the Text of the New Testament? Daniel B. Wallace & Bart D. Ehrman
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