I think everyone should boycott Glenn Beck and Fox news until they fire him.
March 11, 2010 4:18 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From a March 11 post on the NY Times' The Caucus blog: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003110046
In the latest issue of Free Inquiry Magazine (February/ March 2010, Volume 30 Number 2), Paul Kurtz states that the promise of eternal salvation is the single most important hope religion affords believers. Yet, evidence for immortality (of a soul) is totally insufficient, based entirely on wishful thinking. This carries a bright side - it also means no rational basis for maintaining an the illusion or fear of a perpetual horror.
Paul Kurtz favors a stance by skeptics and other non-theists that challenges (in a nice way, of course) the foundation belief in immortality. He believes it would be healthy for society to expose the supernatural promise of eternal life as a false hope. Far better would be a message that death is the end for everyone - the believer and nonbeliever, the commander of armies and the lowly soldier, the dedicated teacher and the beginning student, the moral idealist and the profligate hedonist.
A change of this nature in the American populace would be a big shift, given the famous (infamous?) religiosity of Americans. Is this kind of dramatic change possible?
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amen brother!
amen brother!
Glen Beck fear monger
In the latest issue of Free Inquiry Magazine (February/ March 2010, Volume 30 Number 2), Paul Kurtz states that the promise of eternal salvation is the single most important hope religion affords believers. Yet, evidence for immortality (of a soul) is totally insufficient, based entirely on wishful thinking. This carries a bright side - it also means no rational basis for maintaining an the illusion or fear of a perpetual horror.
Paul Kurtz favors a stance by skeptics and other non-theists that challenges (in a nice way, of course) the foundation belief in immortality. He believes it would be healthy for society to expose the supernatural promise of eternal life as a false hope. Far better would be a message that death is the end for everyone - the believer and nonbeliever, the commander of armies and the lowly soldier, the dedicated teacher and the beginning student, the moral idealist and the profligate hedonist.
A change of this nature in the American populace would be a big shift, given the famous (infamous?) religiosity of Americans. Is this kind of dramatic change possible?