Episode 4 Theocracy

Join us for a discussion with Eddie Tabash current chair of the national legal committee of Americans United for separation of Church and State as well as the Council for Secular Humanism's First Amendment Task Force. In addition to his better known role as an official campaign speaker and debater for numerous presidential candidates (including Bill Clinton & Jimmy Carter) Tabash is also a professional counter-apologist having debated such world famous Christian philosophers as: Peter van Inwagen, Greg Bahnsen, William Lane Craig and Richard Swinburne on the existence of God. In an extended interview, Tabash discusses a wide-range of topics: from disarming the arguments of Christian philosophers to the "unholy alliance" between the religious right and the postmodern academic left. The show concludes with a disturbing glimpse at the difference just one Supreme Court justice could make for American secularists...and the very real possibility that we might be on the verge of a theocratic America.

Also featured

• How a new generation are becoming more skeptical, and why atheists can't take much of the credit.
• Albom tries his hand at sociology and criminal psychology (stick to sports and sappy inspirational stories, Mitch).
  

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Cecil B. DeMille's "The Godless Girl"

Gotta love that old tyme propaganda, don't you?

MI State Representative to follow Ernest's lead in saving Christmas

This is an interesting one right in our own backyard . . .

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=85310

Green Bay Votes to Respect an Establishment of Religion Despite Pesky Constitution

Click the link to check out the audio, it's even more horrifying than it sounds. Mayor Schmitt appears to be painfully clueless about, well, everything.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17416043&ft=1&f=2

All Things Considered, December 19, 2007 · Melissa Block talks with Green Bay, Wis., Mayor Jim Schmitt about Tuesday night's 6-6 vote by the city council on whether to keep in place a nativity display adorning the roof of City Hall.

Schmitt cast the tie-breaking "yes" vote to let the nativity stand and bar other holiday symbols until guidelines for future displays are approved.

The council's president installed the nativity earlier this month, and it quickly drew criticism, praise and requests for other symbols, including a Pagan Yule wreath with a five-pointed Wiccan pentacle. Days after being installed, the wreath was torn down and was found in bushes nearby.

Holy Mitt!

Did you catch Mitt Romney's speech yesterday? Yeah, me neither. That's what they make the Internet for.

Here's my favorite quote: "Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone."

As a friend of mine said: "I wonder what Saudi Arabia has to say about religion perishing without freedom?"

Here's an article comparing Romney's speech vs. Kennedy's:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/6/144038/828/298/418716

Oh, and CNN was running the headline: "Romney barely says 'Mormon'" . . . so, did he say "Morm . . ." and then trail off?