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Here is the link to a petition you can sign:

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I created today:

"Stop forcing faith on hapless children"

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop_forcing_faith?e

I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Tell you what -- get 100,000 signatures on this petition and I will hand deliver… Continue

A while back our member Trent Eady, futurist and creator of http://www.trenteady.com/ inaugurated a facebook group to promote "conversational intolerance". I visited the group today because I have recently encountered people who don't appreciate my direct style of confronting religion. They said I was "offensive". I wanted ideas to fight back with, and in focusing on Sam Harris' concept I let my mind go into free running mode. A dangerous proposition, I wi… Continue

Here are the reasons all Americans must soundly reject John McCain and Sarah Palin:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080

I applaud Newsweek for having the courage to publish the noted atheist, Sam Harris's article. He succinctly and completely lays out the reasons why this women is a threat to our democracy. She is an unhinged religious fanatic in spite of all the frantic work that is being done in the background to scrub her reputation and cover up… Continue

Many people are scratching their heads wondering how in the world an ignoramus like Sarah Palin gets picked to be a candidate for a position that is next in line behind the person who is arguably the most powerful politician in the world, the United States President. She was chosen by the same seditious shadowy cabal that chose G. W. Bush and put him in office for two terms through rigged elections, namely the Council for National Policy. These filthy rich overlords will do and say anything to r… Continue

One of my long standing intellectual pursuits has been to try and understand the roots of bigotry. Why is it impossible to reason people out of their unreasonable ideas? You can say, that people are just stubborn and resistant to change. But, then you have to give an explanation for stubbornness and resistance to change. Obviously, the answer lies deeper in our psyches.

We do know that the brain organizes information in an associative manner. Concepts are linked in an unimaginable tangle of rel… Continue