The Four Horsemen: Discussion on Reason, Atheism, and the Absurdities of Religious Belief.

The Four Horsemen:
- Richard Dawkins
- Daniel Dennett
- Sam Harris
- Christopher Hitchens




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Filmed and Edited by Josh Timonen

30th of September 2007


Books by these authors:"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
"The End of Faith" by Sam Harris
"Letter to a Christian Nation" by Sam Harris
"God is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens
"Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett
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Ricky Gervais - Jesus Was My Invisible Babysitter

Jesus Was My Invisible Babysitter 

Ricky Gervais describes why he became an atheist.





- Ricky Gervais, Actor, Comedian

http://bigthink.com/

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Sam Harris: Why I Criticize Religion.

Sam Harris: Why I Criticize Religion
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Sam Harris on Islamic Fundamentalism

Sam Harris: The Problem with Islamic Fundamentalism are the Fundamentals of Islam 



Complete video: 
http://fora.tv/2010/11/10/Sam_Harris_Can_Science_Determine_Human_Values#fullprogram


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLiku08FlRg
http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistMediaBlog


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Anderson Cooper reports on Bible-Themed Park

Ken Ham vs. Rev. Barry Lynn Over Tax Funded Bible Theme Park


http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistMediaBlog

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reddit.com Interviews Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens discusses Culture, Education, Politics, Religion, the Middle East, Marxism...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Jl2iPPUtI


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Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions

Richard Dawkins answers questions on Science, Atheism, Religion, Morality, Education, Evolution... and reads his Hate Mail.
November 14, 2010


Presented by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
www.richarddawkins.net

2010


http://richarddawkins.net/videos/547385-richard-dawkins-answers-reddit-questions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vueDC69jRjE


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The Secret World of Mormonism - Mormon Cartoon

- Cartoon Revealing the Truth Behind Mormonism and Illustrating Mormon Beliefs



http://www.jeremiahfilms.com/
http://www.secretworldmormonism.com/


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James Randi - Questioning the Bible.

Recorded 3/4/2009 at the James Randi Educational Foundation. 


Lighting, Camera and Editing by:
Richard Montalvo (rmontalvo23@gmail.com)

http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesRandiFoundation
http://www.randi.org/site/


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Daniel C. Dennett - What Should Replace Religions?

Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, on What Should Replace Religions?



http://richarddawkins.net/videos/584432-what-should-replace-religions


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Bill Maher vs. Teabaggers

Bill Maher vs. Tea Party... 
"The Founding Fathers would have hated your guts..."


http://nation.foxnews.com/tea-party/2011/01/15/bill-maher-tea-partiers-founding-fathers-would-ve-hated-your-guts

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Ricky Gervais: Atheism Shouldn't Offend


Interview with Pierce Morgan




January 20, 2011 on CNN - via http://www.AtheistMedia.com

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Christopher Hitchens - The Best of the Hitchslap


"Christopher Hitchens at his finest - some of my favorite moments by the writer who has inspired the ideals of skepticism, free inquiry, and rational thought in so many. I believe Hitchslap is now the proper term for the unflinching intellectual prowess displayed in these exchanges."

http://richarddawkins.net/videos/529709-christopher-hitchens-compilation
http://www.atheistmedia.com/2010/10/christopher-hitchens-compilation.html


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Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"




"Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England, Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA."

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks

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Catholic Doritos in Fox News

Doritos ad generates the most absurd debate in the history of media



January 4, 2011 on Fox News - via http://www.AtheistMedia.com


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Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism

Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism

Belief in evolutionary origins of humans slowly rising, however

by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- Four in 10 Americans, slightly fewer today than in years past, believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago. Thirty-eight percent believe God guided a process by which humans developed over millions of years from less advanced life forms, while 16%, up slightly from years past, believe humans developed over millions of years, without God's involvement.
Complete Report:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four-Americans-Believe-Strict-Creationism.aspx

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Prayer... The best optical illusion in the world!


http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com/video8.htm

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Does God Have a Future?

Sam Harris and Michael Shermer vs. Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston



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It Seems Biology (Not Religion) Equals Morality


IT SEEMS BIOLOGY (NOT RELIGION) EQUALS MORALITY
[12.4.09]
by Marc D. Hauser

MARC D. HAUSER an evolutionary psychologist and biologist, is Harvard College Professor, Professor of Psychology and Program in Neurosciences, and Director of Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. He is the author of The Evolution of Communication, Wild Minds: What Animals Think, and Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong.

Where I intend to be divisive is with respect to the argument that religion, and moral education more generally, represent the only — or perhaps even the ultimate — source of moral reasoning. If anything, moral education is often motivated by self-interest, to do what's best for those within a moral community, preaching singularity, not plurality. Blame nurture, not nature, for our moral atrocities against humanity. And blame educated partiality more generally, as this allows us to lump into one category all those who fail to acknowledge our shared humanity and fail to use secular reasoning to practise compassion.


Complete Article:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hauser09/hauser09_index.html


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Intelligence² Debate: Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?

- Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Ann Widdencombe. 
- Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry

Aired 11-07-09 on BBC World

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Big Think Interview With James Randi

The magician and skeptic talks about his career in the conjuring arts, and explains why he finally came out of the closet at the age of 81.


James Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo." Although often referred to as a "debunker," Randi rejects that title owing to its perceived bias, instead describing himself as an "investigator". He has written about the paranormal, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and is occasionally featured on the television program Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

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Sixty years of Orwellian spin


Sixty years of Orwellian spin
Dec 10th 2010, 18:42 by M.S.
The Economist
IN CASE anyone didn't understand that Fox News routinely hews to the messaging guidelines drawn up by Republican political strategists, we have evidence from a leaked email that Fox News's Washington bureau chief instructed his staff to hew to a messaging guideline drawn up by Republican political strategists, by referring to the health-insurance reform public option as a "government option" or "government plan". Jack Shafer thinks this is just fine. Anyone inclined to give credence to Mr Shafer's view is advised to read the next paragraph, where Mr Shafer advocates renaming Social Security the "Government Ponzi Scheme". Anyway, Jon Chait objects:
Standard news practice is to simply keep using terms that have come into the public discourse and gained wide usage even if it is not the most technically accurate or neutral term. If you had a left-wing news network that decided it can no longer refer to military spending as "defense" because that presumes it is never used in an aggressive way, that would be an act of bias, regardless of the philosophical merits.
I would clarify Mr Chait's point: it's not a crime to start playing with words this way, but if you do it, it makes it clear that you have an ideological or political agenda. There's nothing wrong with having an agenda, as long as you're willing to own up to it. That's the problem with Fox News: they won't own up to their agenda, and it's ridiculous.
Anyway, if we are  going to start referring to government programmes however we want to, I think pushing back against the branding of military spending as "defence" would be an excellent place to start. The reason to stop referring to military spending as "defence" is not so much that it's not always used in a defensive way as that it's almost never used in a defensive way. Perhaps the war in Afghanistan could be considered a defensive measure, but prior to that engagement America hadn't fought a war to defend its own territory since...1812? 1865? Maybe 1945, if you consider the Philippines to be American territory (though "defence of our colonies" doesn't have such a nice ring to it), or the firebombing and planned conquest of Japan to have been a defence of Hawaii. As for the wars we've fought elsewhere, fighting wars to defend other people's territory gets you into an epistemological zone where the use of the word "defence" needs to be judged on a case-by-case basis.
The people who fought and won the second world war didn't feel the need to play this particular word game to be confident they were fighting a just war. The armed forces fought Japan and Germany under a government department correctly labeled according to the activity it was responsible for: the Department of War. In the aftermath, the military apparently recognised that "war" wasn't the most popular way of branding their field of activity. So in 1947, the moniker was changed to the neutral-sounding National Military Establishment, and two years later it became the Department of Defence. This was right about the time "1984" was being published.
The fact that this militarist spin is 60 years old doesn't make it any less biased. I think it would be entirely responsible, neutral and accurate to take the word "defence" out of the non-sports lexicon. If the government won't go back to the Department of War, the least we could do is stop actively participating in this Orwellian farce in which the invasion of Iraq is carried out by the Department of Defence. Call it military spending. That's what it is. Anyone who's confident that fighting a war is a good idea should have the guts to call it by its proper name.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/12/accuracy_names?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/sixtyyearsoforwellianspin