Ask An Atheist

In this episode, Becky, Chad and Sam sort through the exploded office in search of the video. Maybe.

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We know there hasn’t been video lately, and we’re working to fix that, but as you can see, things are up in the air at the moment. We’ll have a new and (hopefully, improved) YouTube interface soon!

Since I didn’t get a chance to post the video for episode 10 to the website until Saturday, I’m going to keep it up in the prominent space until E11 is ready to roll.   It’s only fair.

I normally leave the articles on the blog to other, more qualified folks, but I feel compelled to speak up, briefly, about something I read today. This is from an opinion piece at Chicago Now, which appears to be a part of the Chicago Tribune news contraption:

Our party is ‘a little rude’.

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When non-believers and skeptics point out the harm done by religious dogma, moderates and liberals tend to rebut us with a handful of names. Most often mentioned is Jim Wallis.  Wallis is the founder of a liberal-leaning evangelical Christian group called Sojourners and publishes a magazine of the same name.

In fact, he’s the only nationally known liberal religious leader that I can think of that isn’t primarily a political activist like Jesse Jackson or Barry Lynn.

Now, Jim Wallis and Sojourners aren’t nearly as big or influential as their countless fundamentalist counterparts like Pat Robertson’s 700 Club or James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, but they’re the largest progressive Christian group in the country. They like to bill themselves as a saner alternative to the Religious Right, taking far more moderate stances on civil rights and abortion. All of the Jesus with less of the pesky, fattening dogmatic hate.

So, one would think that he’d have jumped at the chance to sell advertising space to Believe Out Loud, an LBGT Christian group calling for greater acceptance of gays and lesbians in church congregations. I mean, Wallis does claim to be a progressive “social justice” guy, right?

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Here, for Beth, is a hammer.

This is the hammer that Beth is to hit me with.   Why does she get to hit me with a hammer?   Because I neglected to include her as a producer in the credits.

It was late, I was tired, I had a sneaking suspicion that I was forgetting something, but there wasn’t anyone around to check it with.  And I mean anyone– it was 5AM and I was the only one in the entire building.  She really and truly is a producer, and does a lot for the show.   Whenever I pull some junk like this I’m afraid that someone’s going to make some social hay out of it.

This isn’t one of those things.   I am merely stupid.

So, for Beth, a hammer.