(2010/11/13) Not all beliefs are created equal (Religion)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 November 2010
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #428
Not all beliefs are created equal
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Act 1: Stat of the Union – Colbert Report
Song 1: We Are All Made of Stars – 18
Act 2: Nontheists know more about religion – Young Turks
Song 2: Me and God and Jesus – Crooked Roads Band
Act 3: Christmas Suicides come earlier every year – The Onion
Song 3: We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Christmas Masterpieces and Familiar Carols
Act 4: Dawkins lays the smack down on the pope – Richard Dawkins
Song 4: Shattered Faith – Punk-O-Rama 8
Act 5: Honor killings with torture – Young Turks
Song 5: Honor – Praise the Fallen
Act 6: United Arab Emirates wife-beating ruling – David Pakman Show
Song 6: Everloving – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 7: Sam Harris – Daily Show
Song 7: Science Is Real – Here Comes Science
Act 8: Glenn Beck’s Mormon code words exposed = Young Turks
Song 8: Wild Horses – Blind
Act 9: God diagnosed with bipolar disorder – The Onion
Song 9: God Gave Rock & Roll to You – Revenge
Act 10: Birth control in Bogata – Thom Hartmann
Song 10: Can’t Behave (Radio Edit without DJ Quik) – Can’t Behave – Single
Act 11: Evangelical Christian on Obama bringing apocalypse – YoungTurks
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
IHOP: Yahweh or No way – Colbert Report
Sources:
Colbert Report
The Young Turks
The Onion
David Pakman Show
The Daily Show
Thom Hartmann
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by members and donors who sign up at BestOfTheLeft.com and |
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| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Colbert |
| 0:12.5 | Report, the Young Turks, the Onion Radio News, Richard Dawkins, the David Pakman Show, |
| 0:17.0 | the Daily Show, and the Tom Hartman Program with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app |
| 0:20.9 | users from the Colbert Report. |
| 0:30.1 | I don't participate in polls. |
| 0:33.1 | If my opinion is so important, why are they asking all those other people who don't have |
| 0:37.3 | TV shows? |
| 0:39.3 | Nevertheless, there are some polls that are too important to ignore, or at least 75% of |
| 0:44.6 | me feels that way. |
| 0:46.4 | So it's time for the first installment of my long-running series, Stephen Colbert's |
| 0:50.7 | Stat of the Union. |
| 0:53.7 | Nation, I've had a long-running beef with atheists. |
| 1:02.4 | What fun is there telling people that are going to hell if they don't believe in it? |
| 1:07.6 | And there's new evidence that these prey holes are trying to undermine America's God-fearing |
| 1:12.8 | Americans. |
| 1:13.8 | Jim? |
| 1:14.8 | You may consider yourself a person of faith, but do you really know God? |
| 1:19.6 | The Pew Research Center actually found that most Americans failed a quiz asking some of |
| 1:24.9 | the most basic questions about religion. |
| 1:28.0 | And get this, atheists and agnostics did better than Catholics and evangelicals. |
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