1. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #65471 by kylelw on August 24, 2007 at 10:57 am

I posted my original post to CNN, but this is a follow-up that I sent today. Do you think we'll get any results from this request? Any chance of equal airtime for rational people of the world?

I posted a comment a couple days ago, but I have a question. When is CNN going to do the 4th part of their 3 part series on religion? A 4th part called "Reason's Warriors", about people in this world who use science and reason and rational thought to get them through their day-to-day life.

2. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #64988 by kylelw on August 22, 2007 at 3:06 pm

My post to CNN:

Religious faith is under attack, as it should be in a MODERN society. Religion is a left-over concept from humanity's infancy. A humanity that has outgrown its need for such unenlightened, superstitious stories about the nature of our world. We learn so many things about how our world works every day through science and reason, things that crush religion's mythological explanations for our world.

When it comes down to a head-to-head comparison of what will help humanity survive to see the next century, praying won't stop global climate change, science will. Praying hasn't and won't ever cure a single disease, but science has and will continue to. Burying our heads in the sand and praying to a mythological deity won't save us from the serious challenges this world faces, but the work of rational, thinking men will, as it always has. Religion and the religious are under attack in the modern world because they try to deny reality, to EVERYONE'S peril.

3. OUT Campaign Launched, 'Scarlet Letter' Shirts Now Available!

Comment #62599 by kylelw on August 10, 2007 at 9:04 am

I have a hard time understanding the fear of wearing the shirt in a red state. I bought 2 of the shirts and I live in Colorado Springs, home of Focus on the Family and former home of Ted Haggard. I wear the shirt proudly. That's the point. We need to be out and proud in the face of irrational superstition.

On a related topic, I went to a Catholic wedding this last weekend in Colorado Springs. I wore an American Atheist pin on my suit and was asked by someone what it was. I told them it was the symbol for the American Atheists. Another person at the table seemed shocked and offended that she had to sit at a table with an Atheist, or maybe she was shocked that we exist, that we don't have horns growing out of our heads, and that we are proud to reject superstition. I think her reaction said a lot about what kind of "Christian" she is.