From the March 25, 2009 hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Gather round one and all… Watch Rep. John Shimkus turn into an imbecile right before your eyes ladies and gentlemen!

That just makes me sad… The bible as the infallible word of god? Has he ever really read the fucking thing? I wonder his thoughts on revelation… but I digress; he misses the verse right before he starts quoting, which gives the reasoning for god’s decision… (closest translation I could find was NIV…)

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though [a] every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”

He’s using Noah’s animal sacrifice to the lord to get the lord to not kill every living thing again, and god agrees. His selective quotation from the passage (cutting out “The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart”) makes me think he doesn’t actually believe the story, and therefore just likes the phrases involved with this pointless fable. Also, the statement “every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood” is one of my main problems with religions, and he reads that without removing it… Why is it, do you suppose, that that is quoted in the context of arguing against global warming… I’ll let you all figure that one out for yourselves… Back to my point about religion though, the blanket comment “you are evil in your heart” comment which comes from religions and cults is an easy way to (once convinced) get a large group of people to follow those few who claim to know how to get back into the “good” territory.

Anyway, just to pass along something that really made me laugh hard. These are quotes read from text taken directly from online christian fundamentalist forums. Enjoy…

Some of this is Poe’s Law in action I think…

The 15th anniversary of the death of legendary comedian Bill Hicks is coming up on February 26 of this year. In commemoration of this, David Letterman had Hicks’ mother on his show on January 30th, and he finally showed the stand-up routine that was censored several months before Bill died. He has become one of my top 5 comedians as I’ve poured through his past albums (which I would highly recommend anyone check out), and this was a very nice thing for Letterman to do (as well as taking the blame for the censoring)… Anyway, the standup act itself is in the 3rd part (if you just want to skip to that…) Enjoy…

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

One of his better bits right here as well…

Last words… if you will…

That’s really the only way to describe this:

This was a piece performed by Tim Minchin on December 21st at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Enjoy.

There is a sweary mary every now and then, so NSFW, but I fucking loved it…

(Edit) Fixed (/Edit)

This is Tim Minchin’s White Wine In The Sun (Christmas Song).

LYRICS:

I’m looking forward to Christmas
It’s sentimental I know, but I just really like it
I’m, I’m hardly religious
I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest
And yes I have all of the usual objections to consumerism
The commercialisation of an ancient religion
And the western-isation of a dead Palestinian
Press-ganged into selling PlayStations and beer
But I still really like it.

I, I really like Christmas
Though I’m not expecting a visit from Jesus
I’ll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They’ll be drinking white wine in the sun
I’ll be seeing my dad
My sisters and brother, my gran and my mum
We’ll be drinking white wine in the sun.

I don’t go for ancient wisdom
I don’t believe just ’cause ideas are tenacious it means that they’re worthy
I get freaked out by churches
Some of the hymns that they sing have nice chords
But the lyrics are dodgy
And yes I have all of the usual objections to the mis-education of children forced into a cult institution
And taughted to externalise blame
And to feel ashamed
And to judge things as plain right and wrong
But I quite like the songs.

I’m not expecting big presents
The old combination of socks, jocks and chocolate is just fine by me.

‘Cause I’ll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They’ll be drinking white wine in the sun
I’ll be seeing my dad
My sisters and brothers, my gran and my mum
They’ll be drinking white wine in the sun.

And you my baby girl
My jetlagged infant daughter
You’ll be handed round the room
Like a puppy at a primary school
And you’re too young to know
But you will learn yourself one day
That wherever you are and whatever you face
These are the people who’ll make you feel safe in this world
My sweet blue-eyed girl

And if my baby girl
When you’re twenty-one or thirty-one
And Christmas comes around
And you find yourself nine thousand miles from home
You’ll know whatever comes
Your brother and sister, and me and your mum
Will be waiting for you in the sun
Girl, when Christmas comes
Your brothers and sisters, your aunts and your uncles
Your grandparents, cousins, and me and your mum
Will be drinking white wine in the sun
We’ll be waiting for you in the sun
Baby, whenever you come
We’ll be drinking white wine in the sun
Waiting.

I, I really like Christmas
It’s sentimental I know.

…well, just watch for yourself… Sorry for the quality…

This is the opening statement that Christopher Hitchens gave in a religion vs. Atheism debate with Alister McGrath on October 11, 2007 in two parts. It is illustrated with still images for emphasis…

My favorite podcasts involve a gentleman named Matt Dillahunty… He hosts both The Atheist Experience and The Non-Prophets in which he and outspoken atheists from the Atheist Community of Austin discuss the subject of religion. I’ve posted a video of a previous exchange that I thought was particularly well argued.

This is from last weekends Atheist Experience where he and a gentleman named Don Baker ended up talking about morals, then a fellow Austin resident named John called in to question them on whether or not God is moral. I would ask you to watch this even if you think you’ve heard these topics any number of times. Enjoy…

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