"Mega-churches have used religion as fund-raising tool for too long. They shower their followers in sanctimonious platitudes, then clamor for their cash. This video encourages a new definition of tithing by giving to causes with accountability."
Written by Tony Wann & Justin Wilson
Directed/Edited by Justin Wilson
Motion Graphics by Tony Wann
Music: Good Old Neon
"One Never Says Verbal When One Means Oral"
licensed under a Sampling Plus License
freemusicarchive.org/music/Good_Old_Neon
Stills licensed from iStockphoto LP or shot by us
Sources used in video:
Senator Grassley Senate Finance Committee files
Review of Media-Based Ministries - January 6, 2011
- taxdollars.ocregister.com/files/2011/01/SFC-Staff-Memo-to-Grassley-re-Ministries-01-06-11-FINAL.pdf
Forbes - America's Biggest Megachurches - June 26, 2009
- forbes.com/2009/06/26/americas-biggest-megachurches-business-megachurches.html
USA Today - View of God can predict values, politics - Nov. 12, 2006
- usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-09-11-religion-survey_x.htm
Special thanks to our on-screen talent: Sierra Sintic, Justin Lochlear, Artie Pena, James Rayburn, Matt Pittman, David Slack
Sources:
http://www.project-reason.org/contests/2011_video_contest/#entries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bIWztdOlZg
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Richard Dawkins on CBC News
"Evan Solomon, a McGill University graduate with a masters in religious studies, goes head to head with Richard Dawkins with cookie cutter Atheism interview questions and reveals a deep misunderstanding of evolutionary biology along with a lack of journalistic research.
Soloman's co-host Carole MacNeil, in response to Dawkins' calm reasonable responses, reacts with frustration and an inclination toward violence."
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Channel 4 - The Virgin Daughters
Cutting Edge explores the purity movement in America, where one girl in every six pledges to remain a virgin, or to save her first kiss, until her wedding day. Award-winning documentary-maker Jane Treays investigates whether this decision is made by the girls themselves or their parents, and follows a group of fathers and daughters as they prepare to attend a `purity ball' in Colorado Springs, run by Randy Wilson and his wife Lisa. (Channel 4/Youtube)
Originally broadcast on Channel 4 - 25th September 2008
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Originally broadcast on Channel 4 - 25th September 2008
Morality Without God
"Atheists often hear the question, "How can you be moral without God?" The real question is, "How can a moral person accept God?" If the scriptures are true, God sets a terrible example for Goodness." (The Thinking Atheist)
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinkingAtheist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCovYF51qHE
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinkingAtheist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCovYF51qHE
George Carlin - UFO Believers vs. Religious Believers
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RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate adapted from a talk given in 2009, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely emancipatory role in global politics.
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran's 'twitter revolution' fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet. (RSA/Youtube)
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-sUgU
http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
Exposing some idealistic myths about freedom and technology (during Iran's 'twitter revolution' fewer than 20,000 Twitter users actually took part), Evgeny argues for some realism about the actual uses and abuses of the internet. (RSA/Youtube)
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8x3V-sUgU
http://www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg
Top Ten Creationist Arguments Debunked - Part 2
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThinkingAtheist
Read more about the absurdities of creationism:
Confirmed: The Earth is Flat!
"Trailer for the upcoming film "Flattened," which exposes the scientific community's concerted effort to squash dissenting opinions. A fair, balanced documentary which even-handedly shows both sides of the controversial debate regarding the shape of the Earth". (Zimmerscope/Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCxbhGaVfE
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrkxsvfR_rg
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zimmerscope
Slavoj Zizek in Hardtalk
Slavoj Zizek explains the problems of the liberal capitalist democracies in Hardtalk
(Note: The interviewer is truly pathetic and ignorant)
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