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How Strong Is Your Anti-Faith
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A documentary entitled, "The God who wasn't there" ended with a moment when the filmmaker, having bed fed up with contradictive religious dogma being pounded into him as a child, confesses to the camera that he denies the existence of the holy spirit. What's the big deal? Well according to the Bible, Jesus will forgive you for any transgression, except, yes, you guessed it, dissing the holy ghost.
Now a vigilant group of atheists have started a new Internet meme on YouTube where they've challenged others to make videos of themselves testing the limit of their anti-faith. Several news stations have picked up on this, and you might find this surprising, but the Christians have their own response to the issue. |
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Ron English's Popaganda
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Ron English puts up illegal billboards, so he has only one way of knowing if it has been a good day.
"I consider it a success if I don't go to jail," he explained. He should know. He has had two very unsuccessful days in the past.
You may have seen Mr. English, a 43-year-old father of two, wandering around the streets of Manhattan or New Jersey with a bucket of glue, a set of rollers and a crew of accomplices. He plasters his original paintings in broad daylight on billboards he does not own. This is a conscious decision, because billboarding in the dark would only look more suspicious. "If you're out at night," he said, "it's obvious that you're not supposed to be there."
It is worth being careful. Though he has posted more than 1,000 illicit signs, Mr. English says he has been chased while half-drunk by the police in Texas, has been the object of death threats and barely escaped an angry mob in Jersey City.
Mr. English is not a run-of-the-mill graffiti maker. He is widely recognized in the art world as one of the earliest and most celebrated in a line of "culture jammers"-- |
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Stop The Madness, Stop The Irony
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Someone dug up a circa 1985 anti-drug video sponsored by the White House featuring New Edition, LaToya Jackson, (a very young) Whitney Houston, Nancy Reagan, David Hasselhoff, Kim Fields, Herb Alpert, Casey Kasem, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others. Whitney Houston? Oh yea, this is classic 80s. |
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Isaac Hayes Quits Southpark Citing "Religious Intolerance"
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After seeing this season's premier Southpark episode, where the Chef character, previously played by Isaac Hayes appears to be composed of edited disembodied versions of his previous voiceovers, the show's creators have made a powerful statement over Hayes' departure.
It appears, it's ok to make fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Abortion, Hippies, Barbara Striesand, Gays, Handicapped People, Politicians, Mormons and Minorities, but if you start talking bad about Tom Cruise and Scientology, that's crunk. So Isaac Hayes quit Southpark citing "religious intolerance", presumably over the parodying of his cult, Scientology. The result? Chef turns into a pedophile and is eaten by wild animals.
To add more fuel to the fire, the Washington Post said fans have started a campaign urging people to write, phone or e-mail Viacom threatening to boycott "Mission Impossible 3" -- unless Comedy Central reruns the episode spoofing Scientology that caused Isaac Hayes to quit. Does anyone need a reason to not see Mission Impossible 3 in the first place?
At the end of the show, Kyle said they shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving, they should be "mad at that fruity little club [Scientology] for scrambling his brains."
Our take is only fruity little people are members of fruity little clubs.
"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology," South Park co-creator Matt Stone said. "He has no problem -- and he's cashed plenty of checks -- with our show making fun of Christians." |
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