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Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election

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Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
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Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
January 1, 2012 at 12:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJGxVeQw3SE

Pretty damn interesting. Check it out.

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RE: Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
January 2, 2012 at 5:56 am (This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 5:57 am by Justtristo.)
I have watched that video, it was pretty damn good.

However I don't see Mitt Romneys beliefs to be any more insane than say what Evangelical Christians believe in (such as the imminent return of Jesus and the last judgement in particular). Then again we have few Mormons in Australia and personally never known any.
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RE: Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
January 3, 2012 at 2:35 am
Great video, thanks for sharing!
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RE: Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
January 3, 2012 at 3:03 am
I saw this video some time ago on youtube (I have subscribed to him).
The notes on christianity is very interesting and I try to keep this in mind every time a christian mentions about "all christians".
I'd really like to be as optimistic as him, but I'm already deep into that MSNBC cynicism.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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