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Review by John C. Snider © 2008
Or as I like to call it, This Territory Is Unsuitable for Elderly Gentlemen. No Country for Old Men is that other most-talked about film of 2007, the first being There Will Be Blood. They’re both bleak and brutal films – so bleak that the Vatican newspaper declared that “Hollywood was moved this year by films that were sober, full of violence and above all without hope.” As if “99% of humanity is doomed to Eternal Damnation” weren’t sober, violent and hopeless enough.
Creation Museum – We discuss a recent expedition to the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. You can read more about it in John Snider’s report titled “The Creation Museum Is Full of Sh!t”. We’ll also talk about “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Separation of Church and State but Were Afraid to Ask”, a recent event co-sponsored by Americans United for the Separation of Church and State and the Interfaith Alliance Foundation.
by John C. Snider © 2008
Yes, I blew $20 at the Creation Museum, brainchild of Answers in Genesis frontman Ken Ham. It’s located in northern Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. On the drive up along I-75 I didn’t see any billboards advertising it, but there was one of those brown attraction signs on I-275 just before the Museum’s exit. I’m not sure who pays for those signs, but I’m sure it’s either the Commonwealth of Kentucky or some branch of the federal government - maybe the Department of Transportation? At any rate, you could probably make a case that that sign is unconstitutional, since the courts have already ruled that creationism is religion and not science.
Picture #1: So…here we are at the main gate. They’re big on stegasaurases-es-es at the Creation Museum. Note the remnants of Noah’s Flood at the bottom of the picture.
Listen to American Freethought’s John Snider and David Driscoll as guests on the 3/31/2008 episode of The Reason-Driven Podcast, a show which steps chapter-by-chapter through Robert M. Price’s engaging book The Reason-Driven Life. We discuss Chapter 20 “Healing Religious Divisions”, which encourages freethinkers to engage in friendly, intellectually honest debate with believers, and to try to find common causes which don’t involve religion.
Price wrote The Reason-Driven Life as a counterpoint to Robert Warren’s bestselling The Purpose-Driven Life, which claims that everything happens in accordance with God’s Divine Plan.
Thanks to Danny Schade and the Reason-Driven Crew for having us on the ‘cast!
Podcast #16 – Expelled
Monday, April 21st, 2008(more…)
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