“My fist clenched; the hair on the back of my neck stood up. … I gritted my teeth and said [to the aide], ‘I’ll be willing to do that, as soon as I can get your ass qualified to fly low enough and slow enough to do it.’”
The inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more.
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Jon Stewart’s final speech at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith. Or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.
Estimated 215,000-250,000 were in attendance.
I recorded it on my DVR as I was at the USMC Birthday Ball.
I think in the best case religion gives people bad reasons to be good where good reasons are actually available.
In the worst case it separates moral thinking from the actual details of human and animal suffering.
You have an institution like the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is more concerned about preventing contraception than preventing child rape.
It’s more concerned about preventing gay marriage than genocide.
It’s not my opinion of the Catholic it’s just based on its doctrine and actions in the world.
If you want to talk about getting our wisdom from scripture, the god of Abraham gets slavery wrong.
Slavery is the easiest moral question we’ve ever had to face.
If this is written by an omniscient deity it should at least get this question right.
The god of Abraham clearly expects us to keep slaves.
