Mystic Politics

Richard Carrier – Are Christians Delusional? (Video)

Richard Carrier delivers a lecture at Skepticon 3 that explores the question: are christians delusional?

What do you think- Is believing in a cosmic zombie delusional?

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[Documentary] The Evolution Conspiracy – A Quantum Leap into the New Age

A perfectly terrible documentary from propaganda masters Jeremiah Films.

As explained by the filmmakers: “Unmasks fraudulent cover-ups, wild speculations, and deceitful myths that have been presented as the absolute “facts” of evolution. Should evolutionism, the foundational faith of eastern mystical thought, be taught in schools as science, when Creationism, the foundational belief of Judeo-Christianity, has been expelled?”

A polemic against the veracity of science, this documentary questions everything from dinosaurs (evolutionary hogwash) - to lambasting the audacity of attempting naturalistic explanations for natural events.

[Documentary] The Evolution Conspiracy – A Quantum Leap into the New Age

The Top 10 Reasons I Don’t Believe in God

‘If I see any solid evidence to support God, or any supernatural explanation of any phenomenon, I’ll reconsider my disbelief. Until then, I’ll assume that the mind-bogglingly consistent pattern of natural explanations replacing supernatural ones is almost certain to continue.’

God Among the Test Tubes: Science and Religion in Quest of Truth

‘Theology, revered in the Middle Ages as the ‘Queen of Sciences’, has been pushed off the throne. In today’s globalized and technologically advanced society, it has become a marginal intellectual endeavor, still taught in many universities but largely ignored by the high priests of academic life.

Meanwhile, it has remained redundant to the vast majority of believers, who don’t concern themselves too much with the fine points of intellectual debate and mostly take religion on faith. After all, for the irrevocably committed, religion is faith, and in that sense not unlike patriotism, the profit system, or hot dogs—things that are often accepted unquestioningly, because a life without them would be unimaginably disloyal.

Trouble is, we humans are, by nature, critical thinkers and reality changers, and cannot live by faith and habit alone. When we eventually ask awkward questions, religion replies through theology, so that, in a way, any book written by a theologian is already an admission that faith is not enough.’

The Top Peacemaker in the Science-Religion Wars: John Polkinghorne

‘Paul Wallace wrote recently in Religion Dispatches, in a piece titled “Top Ten Peacemakers in the Science-Religion Wars,” that 2011 is the “beginning of the end of the war between science and religion.”

“Creationism,” he says, “cannot last.” And the so-called “new” atheists on the other end of the spectrum are not only not new any longer — if they ever were new in the first place — they are “getting old.” Wallace looks hopefully for an expansion of the “middle ground” where science and religion co-exist in harmony. The outliers that oppose this harmony, he says, “continue to wage battle but they look increasingly irrelevant.”’

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[Documentary] Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson - Collision (Full Length)

Watch now: [Documentary] Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson - Collision (Full Length) [YouTube]

“COLLISION carves a new path in documentary film-making as it pits leading atheist, political journalist and bestselling author Christopher Hitchens against fellow author, satirist and evangelical theologian Douglas Wilson, as they go on the road to exchange blows over the question: “Is Christianity Good for the World?”.

The two contrarians laugh, confide and argue, in public and in private, as they journey through three cities. And the film captures it all. The result is a magnetic conflict, a character-driven narrative that sparkles cinematically with a perfect match of arresting personalities and intellectual rivalry.

In May 2007, leading atheist Christopher Hitchens and Christian apologist Douglas Wilson began to argue the topic “Is Christianity Good for the World?” in a series of written exchanges published in Christianity Today. The rowdy literary bout piqued the interest of filmmaker Darren Doane, who sought out Hitchens and Wilson to pitch the idea of making a film around the debate.

In Fall 2008, Doane and crew accompanied Hitchens and Wilson on an east coast tour to promote the book compiled from their written debate titled creatively enough, Is Christianity Good for the World?. “I loved the idea of putting one of the beltway’s most respected public intellectuals together with an ultra-conservative pastor from Idaho that looks like a lumberjack”, says Doane. “You couldn’t write two characters more contrary. What’s more real than a fight between two guys who are on complete opposite sides of the fence on the most divisive issue in the world? We were ready to make a movie about two intellectual warriors at the top of their game going one-on-one. I knew it would make an amazing film.”

Watch now: [Documentary] Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson - Collision (Full Length) [YouTube]