End Hereditary Religion » Video http://www.endhereditaryreligion.com Information clearinghouse for research and information about child religious freedom rights. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:53:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 To All Religious Teenagers http://www.endhereditaryreligion.com/2011/07/to-all-religious-teenagers/ http://www.endhereditaryreligion.com/2011/07/to-all-religious-teenagers/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:06:50 +0000 Richard Collins http://www.endhereditaryreligion.com/?p=1496

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Would you believe in Giraffism if only one person believed in it? Of course not!

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There are two ways of looking at the world – through faith and superstition or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence – in other words, through reason. –Richard Dawkins

At the beginning of the 21st century we are experiencing a virtual war against reason that is happening due to at least two important reasons. Firstly, the religion virus has spread far and wide in recent decades capitalizing on doubt and confusion about modern intellectual achievements and cultural changes that have emancipated people from the grasp of religion. Secondly, science is advancing so rapidly that the common person cannot absorb all the new knowledge. Highly technical scientific reports are so numerous that even experts complain they are being swamped by information What chance do lay persons have? How many simply give up ever understanding.

To fill the void, peddlers of superstition have flooded in to offer bizarre alternatives to science that seem to make sense and don’t require rigor or careful thought. Purveyors advocate impossible untested schemes of quack medicine and psychics abound that have absolutely no logical grounding whatsoever. The most aggressive superstition peddlers attack the very notion that evidence and fact are critical in the search for truth. They cavalierly toss out epistemology backed by centuries of investigation and careful study. They claim one can “know” something through feelings, emotions, ephemeral insubstantial hunches. President George W. Bush, a proud born-again christian, claimed he went with his gut feeling to answer the most profound questions. According to him, what felt right is right. This is stupifying ignorance raised to the umpteenth power. If he used his gut to think with, one wonders if he used his brain to digest his food. The fool.

Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of science education and a tireless advocate of using reason to seek the truth, stars in a two part television program, “The Enemies of Reason“, broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4 television. Here is part one.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7218293233140975017#

Part Two:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7218293233140975017#docid=6004927014381716642

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Never hit a child. Never humiliate a child. There are effective non violent ways to gain the willing cooperation of children. They don’t deserve to be abused. Love them and respect their dignity. Always.

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For more on fascism:

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, by Chris Hedges

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury, by Kevin Philips

Reports on the web include:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm#_edn14
http://www.theocracywatch.org/
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v19n3/clarkson_dominionism.html
http://www.theocracywatch.org/chris_hedges_nov24_04.htm
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/1/5/155457/0298
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/12/0081322

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