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Contrasting Donald Trump's interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network and his classy speech he just gave on April 28th in Las Vegas where he...
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Contrasting Donald Trump's interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network and his classy speech he just gave on April 28th in Las Vegas where he threw around blatant profanity like I've never seen a "presidential candidate" do in my life. He has the nerve to say America is viewed as a joke? Gee golly Donald! I wonder why!
If you have any intention of voting for this man, YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON.
In this speech his main talking points were:
-- Insisting that we levy a 25% tax on all imported goods from China. Insists that this will force them to "stop manipulating their currency" and further Insists that if they want to do business with us, they will bring their factories here.
-- Baselessly asserts that economic imbalances in the global monetary systems are directly to blame on China and their "currency manipulation" (all the while pretending that America did not just print TRILLIONS of dollars out of thin air).
-- Claimed Obama has publicly bad-mouthed Las Vegas and discouraged tourism (Apparently referring to Obama's budget analogy about, "an American trying to save to go to college shouldn't go blow their money in Las Vegas")
-- That Iran is "100%—not 99%—100% certain to take over Iraq" if we leave. He insists we should stay in Iraq perminantly. He also alluded that Iran and Al Qaeda are either one in the same or work hand in hand. He further insists that Iran will eventually attack Saudi Arabia and if they want our help, they should be forced to pay us.
-- He insists we should be charging Libya, we should take over their oil fields and bring our biggest oil companies. He wants to know why China is not involved.
-- And oh so much more. If you actually hate yourself and would like to listen to his soon-to-be famous 40 minutes of non-stop illogical rambling, you can see it in whole here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoBJLE...
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The target audience for this video is the hundreds of millions of people who don't quite believe the whole Bible, but still propogate Christianity ...
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The target audience for this video is the hundreds of millions of people who don't quite believe the whole Bible, but still propogate Christianity because of its value as a set of moral guidelines.
All creative assets used under fair use.
Music Credits:
Opening and Closing: Bitter Sweet Symphony, by The Verve
Yoga Nidra, by Meditation Spa
Meditation, by Relaxing Piano Music Consort
One, by Metallica, played by a tribute band
Meditation Spa Canon, by Meditation Spa
Richard Dawkins video at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSYosM...
Transcript:
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Many Americans use Christianity as a way to teach very positive modern values to their children. In this video i will address the following question. Is religion good or harmful when used in this way?
[The majority of the story in this video took place in the late 1990's and I have no remaining legal obligations based upon these events.]
In his recent book Beyond Religion the Dalai Lama proposed that religion based ethics are no longer sufficient for our modern world because we are too diverse too connected and our weapons too powerful for us to go on living by "revealed" moral codes that conflict with one another. He proposed that we develop a common set of secular ethics that everyone can agree upon. In the beginning of the book he said that if internal values are like water then religion is like tea. And while no-one needs any specific type of tea, we all need water. His opinion is that religion, like tea, bears other benefits that you would not get from inner values alone (such as sweetness, and good feeling), but that we really only need the inner values (or the water).
For the record, I do not agree with his holiness on this matter. He neglects to mention that religion, like tea, bears harmful traits.
I look at modern Christianity as a container for western values. As western values evolve, they are often attributed to Christianity. So what about our question? Is christianity good when used as a vehicle to teach modern values to children? Absolutely not. The problem with using faith based religion to teach inner values is the problem of false association. When a child's inner values are tied to a belief system that he later finds to be false, he has potential to throw out the baby with the bath water. Meaning, when he ditches his faith, he ditches his inner values along with it. I know that this is possible because I did it myself.
I grew up in an extreme religious environment. In fact, I went to private, Pentecostal, Christian schools from K-11th grade. I was raised to believe that morals can only come from God, and to hell with it all if you don't believe in Jesus. When I got to college, I quickly realized that my parents were wrong about a great deal of things - especially religion. The same people who taught me that it was wrong to lie, cheat and steal, had also taught me that non-Christians were bad people, that the earth was 6K years old, that witchcraft was a real problem, and many other false beliefs that were to be held in equal importance to the morals. After I de-converted, I was a 19 year old kid with no way to discern which values were important and which were BS. My moral compass had been shattered. And over the next few years, I transformed into a bad person... Complete transcript available on http://thefaithcheck.com
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This is an original song that I wrote a few years ago. If you enjoy my music, and would like to hear more, please let me know by rating and comment...
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This is an original song that I wrote a few years ago. If you enjoy my music, and would like to hear more, please let me know by rating and commenting. I have many more original songs, some about atheism as well as other topics.
DOWNLOAD MP3: http://tinyurl.com/7lo99zk
(To download: Right click the link and select "Save link as...")
LYRICS:
Wearing your costumes and playing your games
Turning your tricks with all sorts of names
Feeding us lies with a smile on your face, you deceive
Painting your face like the fool that you are
Preaching the word that means nothing at all
You desperately grasp on to a false sense of being
Why even try, when you know the end is coming
You can't say why, but you feel yourself numbing, yes you do
What do you do when day fades to night
Say your little prayers then turn out the light
Didn't mother teach you that all hope is in vain
When you awake you start it again
Convinced of the lies you unthinkingly defend
But in the back of your mind you know it's all pretend
Why even try, when you know the end is approaching
You can't say when, but you feel yourself hoping that it's true
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Tom Vendetti
I LOVE MICHAEL HEGDES music too ..
my song
"3 sisters from a distant planet"
is a michel hedges tribute.
and my last few song have that "left hand strumming" michael pioneered ..
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