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150+ Fox News Bias videos at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
Fox News turned a complicated controversy into a one-sided propaganda piece wh...
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150+ Fox News Bias videos at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
Fox News turned a complicated controversy into a one-sided propaganda piece when last Sunday's "Fox and Friends" covered Neptune High School's planned graduation at The Great Auditorium in New Jersey where displays of large crosses and pro-Christian signs in the facility raise issues of unconstitutional government endorsement of religion as I show in this video.
The clips I show of Fox News anchors Clayton Morris and Molly Line and New Jersey parent Megan McCluskey come from Fox News' May 22, 2011, broadcast of "Fox and Friends" a large a segment of which available online at http://bit.ly/FoxForgotFirst
The image I use of the Chick-Fil-A corporate FAQ comes from the webpage at http://www.chick-fil-a.com/FAQ#?categ...
The quote I use of Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in the US Supreme Court of Lee v Weisman, (1992) comes from the case available online at http://bit.ly/LeeWeisman
The image I use of the release detailing the 1998 ACLU case fighting for a nurse's right to wear a cross pin is available by following the link titled "ACLU Backs Missouri Nurse Penalized for Wearing Cross-Shaped Lapel Pin" on the website http://aclufightsforchristians.com
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While it is possible that one religion can be true and the others can be false, it is not possible that all of them can be true at the same time if...
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While it is possible that one religion can be true and the others can be false, it is not possible that all of them can be true at the same time if they are each proposing different and/or contradictory claims about reality. Faith is often claimed by many as a final resort of why a particular religious belief is true. However, since faith is used by many religious views that offer different (often opposing) claims, it cannot be a reliable method to getting at the truth.
How could faith ever be something of value? When does the use of faith ever help distinguish the truth or falsity of a claim? Faith is not a helpful component of human progress; it does not help us distinguish between the real and the unreal.
If a person is going to play the faith card, they sure as purgatory better allow every other religious faith to use it too. But that doesn't get us anywhere, now does it? Because, once you examine the religions, you realize that contradictions between them--of the very important doctrines they possess-- are plentiful. So you start to realize that the application of faith doesn't move you a step closer to which one (if any) is actually true. I'm going with this wild notion that two logical propositions that contradict each other cannot be equally true at the same time.
Do miracle stories and testimonies help us increase our understanding of what is true and real....do they help us discern which religion (if any) is true? When I was living in Senegal, I heard plenty of miracles that Allah provided for the people there. I even traveled to the Great Mosque in Touba and learned about more miraculous stories and answered prayers told by the people there. Some were amazing...so convincing. The Mosque was incredible!
Not long ago I had a friend who was a JW and she had so many miraculous stories and answered prayers. Does this mean that the miracles she experienced were objectively real and thus lend validity to her particular faith? If you believe in miracles, --that they are evidence of the supernatural--you would have to accept the miracles claimed by other religious faiths, right?--can't argue with a personal testimony or an experience, can you? You don't believe these experiences? These Muslims are being misled? How do you know? What if you're being misled by your particular faith?
How would you be able to tell the "true miracles" from the "false miracles"? The term "special pleading" comes to mind. You would have to arbitrarily determine that the miracles of your particular faith were true, while excluding all the claimed miracles cited by those of other faiths. Now, if you start to say that the miracles of other faiths are also real, what about the doctrines of those faiths? Why would the miracles of other faiths be real, true experiences but not the doctrines? Miracles and testimonies cannot help us distinguish between religious faiths or whether any of them are true because the actual doctrines of those religious faiths contradict the doctrines of other religious faiths.
Personal visions, dreams and hallucinations might make us feel good or give us insight, but they are not enough to be considered objectively real.
Is it really that intriguing that people of all religious beliefs have feelings/dreams/visions that correspond to the current religion they happen to embrace or grew up with everyday of their life? I wonder how many Protestants have visions of the virgin Mary and her involvement in the current world or how many of them accept the personal testimonies of the Medjugorje visionaries? Or, how many Catholics have dreams about the bread (Eucharist) at communion being PURELY SYMBOLIC....or that scripture is, in fact, the final authority in matters of faith and salvation (sola scriptura)--not the Pope? How many Hindus have dreams confirming the truth of Islam or Muslim's have visions that The Book of Mormon--not the Koran--is the correct word of God? Not very likely. When we have dreams and visions, we tend to have one's that correspond to what our brain has been exposed to the most.
---Renee
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I give an informal, uncouth description of my transition from being a creationist to becoming a skeptic. I'm very sorry about the barking and also ...
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I give an informal, uncouth description of my transition from being a creationist to becoming a skeptic. I'm very sorry about the barking and also sorry if you find the editing effect aggravating.... but I just felt like it.
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This is a story I worked on with Jeff Napshin while I was with ABC 24. It was fun to do. Jeff liked doing standups that had movement in them. Thi...
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This is a story I worked on with Jeff Napshin while I was with ABC 24. It was fun to do. Jeff liked doing standups that had movement in them. This fit the bill as far as props goes. He played off them very well.
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Released in 1998,Titanic The Board Game was relesed soon after the success of James Cameron's Academy Award winning film.Can you collect all your v...
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Released in 1998,Titanic The Board Game was relesed soon after the success of James Cameron's Academy Award winning film.Can you collect all your valuables and be the first to make it to the lifeboats.Music by Enya.Thank you for watching my third most popular clip!And,do check out the new follow up:Raise The Titanic:The Board Game
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Mike