Interesting Cruise Tonight

In researching Mixed...Part IV, I made an interesting side trip. Somehow I wound up at Amazon looking at a book entitled "A Jealous God: Science's Crusade Against Religion." Sounds like a page-turner to me!

This is the description offered on Amazon:

"The age-old war between religion and science has taken a new twist. Once the dedicated scientist-martyr fought heroically against rigid religionists. But now the tables have turned, and it is established science crusading against religion, pushing atheistic agendas in the classroom, in textbooks, and in the media. This book shows how science has now become a religion of its own-an often fanatical one at that-furiously preaching atheism, punishing dissenters, dictating how and what we should think, and subtly inserting its worldviews in everything from education to entertainment. And, with stunning clarity, it proves that, with billions of dollars up for grabs in the race for stem cell research, intellectual integrity has been replaced with good old-fashioned greed. With sharp insight and completely original reporting, this book defiantly shows the extent to which science is beating down religion and how this systematic tyranny is unmistakably weakening culture and society."

Interesting. Let's edit that a little, shall we?:

"Once the dedicated scientist-martyr fought heroically. Religionists, now pushing theistic agendas in the classroom, in textbooks, and in the media. This book shows religion, an often fanatical one at that, furiously preaching theism, punishing dissenters, dictating how and what we should think, and subtly inserting its worldviews in everything from education to entertainment. And, with stunning clarity, it proves that, with billions of dollars up for grabs, integrity has been replaced with good old-fashioned greed. With sharp insight and completely original reporting, this book defiantly shows the extent to which religion and systematic tyranny are unmistakably weakening culture and society."

I only changed one word in the passage. The rest resulted from minor omissions or rearrangements. Sound like anyone we know?

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On a similar note, I found a fabulous feminist/political website...Tennessee Guerilla Women. I particularly enjoyed Red Burka for a Red America. Feels like deja vu all over again. Now what does that remind me of? Oh yeah, that book by Margaret Atwood.

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Finally, I throw this out for your potential enjoyment with this big disclaimer:

Do not go to the following site without your sense of humor! The views expressed on the videos on this site are not necessarily mine...I just happened to find most of them uproariously funny. Hope you do, too!

Wimp.com is going in my Just for Fun list, for sure!