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i’ve seen this before…i watch their show all the time…although im not sure how much you’d agree with some of their other topics…like wal-mart is awesome and recycling is bad for the enviroment.
Yeah, I’ve seen a few of them posted online, but I don’t get showtime, so I can’t watch them regularly. They definitely make great cases in all the ones I’ve seen, even if I don’t agree with their conclusion. Like, I saw the recycling one and, no question, it takes more energy and causes more pollution to recycle. But that doesn’t mean recycling is inherently bad and that we should stop the procedure. Rather, just that we should expend more energy on finding ways to do it more cleanly and more efficiently.
As for the bible one, I dunno. I have a real hard time seeing how bible literalists, specifically, (not just any christian, mind you) can reach any other conclusion other than that that the bible is flawed and cannot be followed to the letter. Like that Colbert Report episode when they had an anti-gay marriage dude and the guy quoted the bible and Colbert retorted that he’d like to see everything in the bible start getting taken literally and he wants to stone his wife and ohmygodrunonsentence.
I’d be curious to see the recycling one because I’ve never thought that the reason to recycle was as much to keep the air clean and limit pollution as it was to get more use out of existing natural resources and not have to have things like plastic taking up space in landfills when they could be re-used.
They edited out the pro-bible guy.
Though he pretty much made the anti argument, despite his best efforts.
I like the gm crops episode. And any episode with James Randy.
JAMES RANDY IS MY FAVORITE PERSON.
He is in many, you should check them out.
I’ve been watching “Christopher Hitchens videos”http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ip2nw0NWUW4&feature=related for the past few days. I have a cousin-through-marriage who likes to talk to me about atheism. He suggested this guy after I told him about this vid.
Yeah, Hitchens is amazing. I bought his last book a while ago, but haven’t had a chance to crack it yet.
I like Hitchens because he’s so ridiculous and over the top contrarian. I’m sure he’d be an absolute boorish ass to hang out with, but anyone who has the stones to write a book about how mother theresa was an overrated tramp at least gets gall points.