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Christianity Is a Delusion

© Richard Carrier, Ph.D.  (Reprinted with Permission) Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of…

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

A Fistful of Justice

Justice is a human construct.  The Universe does not have an inherent sense of right and wrong.  Karma is nonsense, heaven and hell more so.  But sometimes we luck out, and things happen that look to us like nature making things right.

Five conservative radio hosts – all people who spread deadly misinformation about covid – have died of covid.  Of them, as you may have heard, Phil Valentine died in the most brutal, drawn out, and excruciating way of the lot.  His fellow radio recipients of coincidental justice were Tod Tucker, Marc Bernier, Dick Farrel, and Jimmy DeYoung.

In other good news, disgraced fascist demagogue Baby Milo got covid and poisoned himself with ivermectin.

 If all they care about is owning the libs, maybe they’ll get smart and mask/vax up – if they see that doing otherwise is fielding the opposite result. - - Freethought Blogs

[kenyatta2009]

Another Day Another Podcast

Another Day Another Podcast

When I am not hanging out with my friends, l, at this party, one of my hobbies is listening to podcasts. Among my favorites are Code Switch, It’s Been a Minute, Freethought Radio, Only a Game, How I Built This,  and  Hidden Brain. My hobby has been aided by the recent purchase of an I-phone which has a very powerful podcast app. Many of these podcasts are actually regular programs that I listen…

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Butterfly McQueen

Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen (January 7, 1911 – December 22, 1995) was an American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. McQueen also had a role on the controversial Beulah radio show. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid."

She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s then moved to television acting in the 1950s.

Early life and education

Born Thelma McQueen in Tampa, Florida, on January 7, 1911, she planned to become a nurse until a high school teacher suggested that she try acting. McQueen initially studied with Janet Collins and went on to dance with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group. Around this time she acquired the nickname "Butterfly" – a tribute to her constantly moving hands – for her performance of the Butterfly Ballet in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. (She had always hated her birth name, and later legally changed her name to Butterfly McQueen.) She performed with the dance troupe of Katherine Dunham before making her professional debut in George Abbott's Brown Sugar. In 1975, at age 64, McQueen received a bachelor's degree in political science from New York City College.

Career

McQueen's first role would become her most identifiable – Prissy, the young slave in Gone with the Wind. She uttered the famous words: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Her distinctive, high-pitched voice was noted by a critic who described it as "the itsy-little voice fading over the far horizon of comprehension". While the role is well known to audiences, McQueen did not enjoy playing the part and felt it was demeaning to African-Americans.

She also played an uncredited bit part as a sales assistant in The Women (1939), filmed after Gone with the Wind but released before it. She also played Butterfly, Rochester's niece and Mary Livingstone's maid in the Jack Benny radio program for a time during World War II. She appeared in an uncredited role in Mildred Pierce (1945) (where she had a good amount of screen time) and played a supporting role in Duel in the Sun (1946). By 1947, she had grown tired of the ethnic stereotypes she was required to play and ended her film career.

During World War II, McQueen frequently appeared as a comedian on the Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast Jubilee. Many of these broadcasts are available on the Internet Archive.

From 1950 until 1952 she played Oriole, another racially stereotyped role, on the television series Beulah. In a lighter moment, she appeared in a 1969 episode of The Dating Game.

Offers for acting roles began to dry up around this time, and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from City College of New York in 1975. McQueen played the character of Aunt Thelma, a fairy godmother, in the ABC Weekend Special episode "The Seven Wishes of Joanna Peabody" (1978) and the ABC Afterschool Special episode "Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid" (1979); her performance in the latter earned her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming. She had one more role of substance in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast.

McQueen was in the original version of the stage musical The Wiz when it debuted in Baltimore in 1974. She played the Queen of the Field Mice, a character from the original L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, when the show was revised prior to going to Broadway, McQueen's role was cut by incoming director Geoffrey Holder. McQueen did replace Clarice Taylor later in the play's Broadway run in the role of Addaperle.

Personal life

McQueen never married or had any children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in Augusta, Georgia during the winter.

In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen $60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pickpocket and a vagrant while she was at a bus terminal in April 1979.

Atheism

In 1989, the Freedom From Religion Foundation honored her with its Freethought Heroine Award. "I'm an atheist," she had declared, "and Christianity appears to me to be the most absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm puzzled that so many people can't see through a religion that encourages irresponsibility and bigotry." She told a reporter, "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion." This quote was used by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in advertisements inside Madison, Wisconsin buses in 2009 and in an Atlanta market in 2010.

She lamented that, had humans put the energy on Earth and on people that had been put on mythology and on Jesus Christ, there would be less hunger and homelessness. "They say the streets are going to be beautiful in Heaven. Well, I'm trying to make the streets beautiful here ... When it's clean and beautiful, I think America is heaven. And some people are hell."

Later life and death

McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995 at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, from burns sustained when a kerosene heater she attempted to light malfunctioned and burst into flames.

McQueen donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

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This Is How We Know Christianity Is a Delusion

This Is How We Know Christianity Is a Delusion

© Richard Carrier, Ph.D.  (Reprinted with Permission)

Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of…

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Left-Libertarian Weekly Podcast Roundup (3/23/18)

Against the Grain - Our Political Future on a Heating Planet

Anarchist News - Episode 55: anarchist activity, ideas, and conversations from the previous week

Animal Voices - Canadian Olympic Gold Medalist Meagan Duhamel on Vegan Athleticism and Rescuing Dogs in South Korea, with Humane Society International

B(A)DNews - March 2018: Angry voices from around the world

Beyond Prisons - Pen Pals: communicating with incarcerated people

By Any Means Necessary - US Continues to Fuel Yemen War; Why Toys "R" Us Failed

Cato Daily - Trump’s Disappointing Approach to Opioids

Cato Events - Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Chauncey DeVega Show - The Racial Wealth Gap is a Threat to American Prosperity

Clear and Present Danger - The Caliphate

Connected & Disaffected - Countering Hate ft. Jason Carmel

The Corbett Report - 5 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost

Declarations - Do Borders Hide or Reveal Rights? (With Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa)

The Dig - MLK, Political Philosopher. With Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry

Discourse Collective - Culture - Red Star Wars Part II

Economic Rockstar - David Zetland on Climate Change and Water Civilization

EconTalk - Beth Redbird on Licensing

Felony Friday - College Student Gets Jail Time for Selling a Couple Adderall

The Final Straw - Expropriations and Internal Exile: Ray Luc Levasseur on Tom Manning, SCAR, and the Ohio 7

Flashpoints - Colin Powell’s Half Century Mass Murder Record

Foreign Policy Focus - The Heroism of Ahed Tamimi

Free Thoughts - Forensics, Pseudoscience and Criminal Injustice (with Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington)

Freethought Radio - Black Nonbelievers with with Mandisa Thomas

The Gaytheist Manifesto - Demolish Your Shame

Historical Controversies - Harpers Ferry, Part 2: The Attack

The Hotwire - #23: Historic school walkouts—Alt-right unravels—Solidarity with anarchists in Russia

IGDCAST - This Declining American Life: On the Shifting Terrain of Empire

Intercepted - Legacy of Blood — the 55-Year U.S. War Against Iraqis

Kite Line - Carceral Repression Vs. Community Resilience

Knowing Animals - Pigs with Brett Mizelle

Kudzu Commune - Harriet Tubman is Cooler Than You

Last Born In The Wilderness - Deep In The Medicine: Ayahuasca Calling w/ Zack Reinhart

Letters & Politics - A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Liberty Chronicles - The Most Important Election Ever

The Lockdown - The End of Policing

Loud & Clear - US Senate Votes to Continue Funding Saudi Campaign in Yemen

The Magnificast - Anarchy and Christianity Redux

Notorious Women - Two .38s And a Shotgun

NovaraFM - Notes From Below: No Politics Without Inquiry!

Part of the Problem - Scott Horton on recent changes in the Trump administration, war in North Korea, Syria or Iran, and Waco.

Power Problems - Here Comes the New Russia, Same as the Old Russia

Radio Free Acton - Tech & Work: The effect of technology on farming; Upstream on ‘The Rending and the Nest’

Restart - Afrotech Fest and Afrofuturism

Rising Up With Sonali - The Case Against Sugar

School Sucks - Blake Boles (Part 1) – Unschool Adventures

The Scott Horton Show - Christian Appy on the 50th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre

Season of the Bitch - Religion And The Left, Part 2

Secret Feminist Agenda - Fighting All the Scary Bad Guys in Video Games With Clare Mulcahy

Short Circuit - 089: a group homes for the disabled, a 20-year permitting process to build two houses, and graveyard access

So to Speak - Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Solecast - Cindy Milstein on Rebellious Mourning

Stuff Your Mom Never Told You - How Clinic Escorts Work

Symptomatic Redness - The DSA Redux

This Is Hell! - Rights Reserved: Privilege, denial and the conversation about race. / Radical women unite in Zapatista territory. / Walls, Democrats and other borders to humane immigration policy. / Why rights discourse fails to deliver justice. / On the grim labor of fitness.

The Tom Woods Show - Debate: Bob Murphy and Dylan Moore on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

Unregistered - Dar Williams, musician and author

Vegan Warrior Princess Attack! - Returned Ex-Vegans

Who Shaves the Barber? - Michael Huemer: Ethical Intuitionism

Words & Numbers - Federal Spending Is Out of Control

[paranormalradioandpodcast]

Jan. 27/18 Aliens Among Us 3 With Jordan Maxwell

Jordan Maxwell continues as a preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult / religious philosophy. His interest in these subjects began as far back as 1959. He served for three-and-a-half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America’s oldest Freethought Journal (since 1873). His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies creates enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world. He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars; hosted his own radio talk shows; guested on more than 600 radio shows; and written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three two-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed five-part Ancient Mystery Series) — all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today. His work on the subject of secret societies, both ancient and modern, and their symbols, has fascinated audiences around the world for decades. Jordan Welcome back to spaced out Saturday www.jordanmaxwellshow.com http://feed.informer.com/digests/QVGGJ1BBHY/feeder

[themortallivinggod]

Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen, born January 7, 1911. An American actress. Originally a dancer, McQueen first appeared in film in 1939 as Prissy, Scarlett O'Hara's maid, in the film Gone with the Wind. She was unable to attend the movie's premiere because it was held at a whites-only theater. McQueen also had a role on the controversial Beulah radio show. Often typecast as a maid, she said: "I didn't mind playing a maid the first time, because I thought that was how you got into the business. But after I did the same thing over and over, I resented it. I didn't mind being funny, but I didn't like being stupid." She continued as an actress in film in the 1940s then moved to television acting in the 1950s. McQueen never married or had any children. She lived in New York in the summer months and in Augusta, Georgia during the winter. In July 1983, a jury awarded McQueen $60,000 in a judgment stemming from a lawsuit she filed against two bus terminal security guards. McQueen sued for harassment after she claimed the security guards accused her of being a pick pocket and a vagrant while she was at a bus terminal in April 1979. In 1989, the Freedom From Religion Foundation honored her with its Freethought Heroine Award. "I'm an atheist," she had declared, "and Christianity appears to me to be the most absurd imposture of all the religions, and I'm puzzled that so many people can't see through a religion that encourages irresponsibility and bigotry." She told a reporter "As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion." This quote was used by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in advertisements inside Madison, Wisconsin, buses in 2009 and in an Atlanta market in 2010. She lamented that, had humans put the energy on earth and on people that had been put on mythology and on Jesus Christ, there would be less hunger and homelessness. "They say the streets are going to be beautiful in Heaven. Well, I’m trying to make the streets beautiful here ... When it’s clean and beautiful, I think America is heaven. And some people are hell." McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995 at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, from burns sustained when a kerosene heater she attempted to light malfunctioned and burst into flames. McQueen donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

Remember Sean Hannity being all upsetty over the very dangerous, angry snowflakes? Well, he’s having a very special snowflake tantrum, after being schooled by Ted Koppel. I guess he couldn’t think quickly enough on the actual show, so he waited until he was back on his home ground to do his accusative yelling.

Discussing the interview on his radio show “The Sean Hannity Show,” Hannity insisted he “liked watching Ted” when Koppel was the host of ABC’s “Nightline,” before launching into an attack on the respected reporter.

“I’m an opinionated journalist and a talk show host,” Hannity began. “But the difference, Ted respectfully, is I’m honest with my audience, you’re not. You pretend to be fair and balanced, I don’t. And if you really cared about truth in journalism how do you work for a network that’s so abusively biased with the history it has?”

No, no, wait a moment here. You’re definitely a talk show host, and opinionated, but you’re no journalist, sir. As for honesty, I’m fairly sure you wouldn’t recognize it if it bit you on the nose. I remember watching Ted Koppel, and he didn’t pretend to anything. He’s an actual journalist, and the truth weighed the most with him. Appears that it still does. I don’t have TV these days, but it seems Koppel occasionally works for CBS these days. What is this abusive bias that I have somehow missed? And this idiocy coming from someone who works at Fucking Fox, an abuse factory if ever there was one, not only of people, those people primarily being women, but abusive when it comes to truth and integrity, two things it has little acquaintance with, or those who are cradled in said abuse factory.

Hannity continued his defense, asking, “How can I be bad for America when I offer the American people news and information your network will never touch because you have an agenda?”

Oh, you don’t offer news and credible information. You offer braying opinions, bullshit, outright lies, and the odd conspiracy theory. Oh, and of course, you don’t have an agenda, no. So, bad for America? Yes, you betcha. Put that sad face on, Cupcake.

“If you’re going to suggest I’m lying to people and I’m putting ideology ahead of facts, I want your examples,” Hannity added.

Oh for fuck’s sake, the man doesn’t have years on end to devote to your dishonesty and blatant ideology, or your outright worship of the Tiny Tyrant. - - Affinity/Freethought Blogs

[knoawyls]

Freethought Radio: Reasonable and Kind - This week’s show is dedicated to the memory of FFRF’s principal founder Anne Nicol Gaylor, who died June 14 at the age of 88.

[antallan]

If a designer was designing us, either they’re a terrible designer or they’ve got a great sense of humour, because we’re carrying around all sorts of genes that don’t work.

Sean B. Carroll, Freethought Radio, 24 May 2008

[1angryatheist]

ReapSowRadio #90

ReapSowRadio #90

Meteors are in the news a lot lately so we talk about what kind of damage they can and have done.

Al gives us a lesson in politics

Why shouldn’t you eat fast food? After you hear our stories you’ll know why.

Should anyone be spending 20 years in prison for non-violent drug crimes like selling weed? A guy in Missouri is doing just that. Is the war on drugs effective?

Brian advocates drug use and…

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Jan. 6/18 The Alien Presence With Jordan Maxwell

Jordan Maxwell continues as a preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult / religious philosophy. His interest in these subjects began as far back as 1959. He served for three-and-a-half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America’s oldest Freethought Journal (since 1873). His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies creates enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world. He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars; hosted his own radio talk shows; guested on more than 600 radio shows; and written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three two-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed five-part Ancient Mystery Series) — all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today. His work on the subject of secret societies, both ancient and modern, and their symbols, has fascinated audiences around the world for decades. Considering the rapidly moving events of today, and the very real part hidden religious agendas play in our modern war-torn world, he feels these controversial subjects are not only interesting to explore, but too important to ignore! His extraordinary presentations includes documents and photographs seldom seen elsewhere. http://feed.informer.com/digests/QVGGJ1BBHY/feeder