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Chris

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

About Me

I have a great sense of humor. I love to laugh. I'm a good listener. I tend to be a romantic when it comes to drama, literature, or affairs of the heart.
I abhor organized religion. I wish people would embrace reason and logic in place of dogma, myth, and superstition.
I would like to address what I believe to be a common misconception people have about atheism. I have noticed ever since I started to identify myself as an atheist that people seem to think that to be an atheist requires faith. Faith in an absolute. Faith that there absolutely is not a god. This is not true. Atheism is simply the LACK of faith in any particular deity, god, religion, or myth. As Richard Dawkins is fond of pointing out, we are ALL atheists in regards to Thor. Atheists just take it one god further.
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." - Robert M. Pirsig
"...Those opposed to therapeutic stem-cell research on religious grounds constitute the biological and ethical equivalent of a flat-earth society. ...In this area of public policy alone, the accommodations that we have made to faith will do nothing but enshrine a perfect immensity of human suffering for decades to come." - Sam Harris
"We have no reason to expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Faith is intrinsically divisive. We have a choice between conversation and war. It was conversation that ended slavery, not faith. Faith is a declaration of immunity to conversation. To make religious war unthinkable, we have to undermine the dogma of faith. The continuance of civilization requires not moderation, but reason." - Sam Harris
"There's no conflict between mysticism and science. But there is a conflict between the science of 2000 BC and the science of 2000 AD. And that's a mess in our religions. We've got stuck with an image of the universe that is about as simple and childish as you could imagine, you know the three level universe and all that of the bible. It's of no use to us. We have to have poets, we have to have seers who will render to us the experience of the transcendence through the world in which we're living." - Joseph Campbell

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My Interests

I enjoy all sports except I hate nascar. My favorite activity is snow skiing.I love reading, watching (for the most part thought provoking) television, and going to movies, concerts, Atlanta Braves games, Nashville Predators games, and University of Alabama football games.

I'd like to meet:

Rational freethinkers only please!



Music:


The Band, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, The Jayhawks, Jay Farrar, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Ben Harper, The Shins, Neko Case, and many more...

Movies:


Serenity, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Play It Again Sam, Broadway Danny Rose, Godfather I & II, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy (original), Bottle Rocket, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise and the sequel Before Sunset, The Last Waltz, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Stagecoach, Casablanca, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed The Electric Car?, and many more...

Television:


The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Wonderfalls, Entourage, Freaks & Geeks, Sports Night, Studio 60, Heroes, The Office (both versions), My Name Is Earl, The Shield, 24, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Curb Your Enthusiasm, That '70s Show, Scrubs, Veronica Mars, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Nova, Frontline, Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The Amazing Race, etc...

Books:


I'm an avid reader. Some of my favorites: The Origin Of Species, The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind, the non-fiction of Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, The Lord of the Rings trilogy along with The Hobbit and The Silmarillion by Tolkien, The Kingkiller Chronicles series by Patrick Rothfuss, pretty much anything by Stephen King; especially The Dark Tower Series, The Stand, It, Insomnia, Talisman, Black House, Hearts In Atlantis, The Assault On Reason by Al Gore, and I love classic lit...

Heroes:


I don't really have any heroes. But I would love to meet Joss Whedon, Terry Goodkind, Bill Moyers, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Stephen King, and Woody Allen. And some late greats that I would have loved to have met: Joseph Campbell, Carl Sagan, Einstein, and Ayn Rand.

George Carlin on religion:
George Carlin -Religion is BS

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Why "creation science" should not be taught in schools:

And now a special message from our President on global warming:

Everyone needs to watch and pay attention to the message in this movie!

My Blog

NOW with Bill Moyers and Richard Dawkins on Evolution

An excellent episode of NOW with Bill Moyers in which he interviews Richard Dawkins concerning the debate between religion and science on the FACT of evolution. Richard Dawkins...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:44:00 PST

Daniel Dennett interview on The Charlie Rose Show with Guest Host Bill Moyers

A great interview with author and Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett.  Master interviewer Bill Moyers was filling in for Charlie Rose on this night.  A must see! ...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:13:00 PST

Mr. Show with Bob & David - two hilarious sketches

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Posted by Chris on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:19:00 PST

Ben Harper - "Better Way" video

Ben Harper    ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:38:00 PST

Sam Harris Videos - Each One A Must See

    Sam Harris is the author of End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation.  For some of his thoughts I urge you all to check this ou...
Posted by Chris on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:08:00 PST

Black Holes and Beyond

    Stephen Hawking's Universe 05 - Black Holes And Beyond -- 53 min 31 sec...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:26:00 PST

The search for a Theory of Everything.

    Stephen Hawking's Universe 06 - An Answer To Everything -- 53 min 29 sec ...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:21:00 PST

The Root Of All Evil?

This is the two part documentary The Root of all Evil? by Richard Dawkins.  It is one of the most interesting and informative documentaries I have ever seen!  Everyone needs to see this two ...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:13:00 PST

Einstein's Biggest Blunder?

    There is an incredibly interesting new theory in cosmology that refutes part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  It allows for a fluctuating speed of light in the early univer...
Posted by Chris on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:58:00 PST