After watching the initial trailer (see below), I came into the Christian film, “God’s Not Dead” with an obvious bias. To…
Category Free Speech
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about punching Nazis. In one sense this seems odd to me because…
France has made headlines recently when multiple beach towns implemented a ban on “burkinis.” Burkinis are a fully covered swimsuit…
I am surprisingly a fan of the Christian propaganda film, God’s Not Dead. The production value puts it way ahead…
ABC recently aired an episode of their hidden camera show, “What Would You Do?” The episode featured an angry atheist…
I was listening to my local NPR station the other day and came across an interesting story. Artists created a mural in Philadelphia and surprise, surprise, Christians were offended and destroyed the mural because that’s what people do when they are offended.
I know that everyone is all in love with Pope Francis and everything, but he really isn’t that much different from his predecessor, Pope Palpatine. On Thursday during an airplane interview, the Pope let his real opinions slip out.
In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, I think it is a good time to discuss the relationship between religion and jokes. Purely from an observational standpoint, it very much appears to me that the more religious someone is, the less of a sense of humor they tend to have.
I’m a pretty progressive person, but there is one thing that I think many of my fellow liberals get wrong. Maybe it is because I am a former radio talk show person, but I never liked political correctness. I see it as the enemy of free speech and free expression. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that words have power and there are consequences for saying certain things, but I also think that humor – dark humor in particular – can have a healing quality to it. The down side is that dark humor sometimes is politically incorrect and taken out of context might offend the very people it seeks to heal.
Ah yes, it is that time of year once again — Everyone Draw Mohammed Day!