St Francis de la Sissies

Thanks Diane!

Keith Olberman on Prop 8

Free will

Rabi Wolpe: "Do you believe in free will?"
Christopher HItchens: "I think we have no choice."

JFK on the separation of Church and State

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Barack Obama on Religion and Scripture

Religious test for office

According to Article VI of the US Constitution:

"...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

That is, except in Tennessee I guess:

Article IX: Disqualifications
§ 2. Atheists holding office
No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this State.

Hmmm... Well, they don't allow "Ministers of the Gospel" to hold state-level legislative seats either but that is to ensure that they are "not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions" (Article IX,§1).

Now here's a lawsuit that should be waiting to happen.

Moyers on Wright

Bill Moyers reflects on his interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. (Sorry, the video isn't readily embeddable.)

The Truth About Ben Stein

Brian of dotboom fame takes on Ben Stein and the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. (Sorry, the vid can't be embedded so you'll have to click the link to watch.)

Creative Wikipedia solution to images of Muhammad controversy

Just edit some Wikipedia-specific CSS:

How can I hide the images using my personal Wikipedia settings?

See also: Wikipedia:How to set your browser to not see images

If you are offended by the images (and you have an account), you can change your personal settings so that you don't have to see them, without affecting other users. This is done by modifying your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) page, which is individual to each user.

To do this:

• Click on this link to modify your monobook.css page
• If no page is there already, just go ahead and create a page
• Add the following line to your css page:

body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;}

This will permanently hide the images on the article for you as long as you are logged in.

From Talk:Muhammad/FAQ

Christopher Hitchens @ Politics and Prose

Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens debate at NYPL