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RussBLib

(9,020 posts)
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 10:50 AM Dec 2014

Donald C. Johansen accepts the Emperor Has No Clothes Award

Johansen is the latest recipient of FFRF's award, presented at the recent FFRF convention in Los Angeles. We were going to attend this one but I ended up with some (rather) emergency surgery and I had not recovered by the time of the convention. It's on our calendar again next fall in Madison, Wisconsin. This runs 46 minutes, including the intro by Dan Barker.

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Donald showed a few slides during his talk. The toon below was hilarious and I had to steal it.

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Donald C. Johansen accepts the Emperor Has No Clothes Award (Original Post) RussBLib Dec 2014 OP
That cartoon is fantastic. LOL trotsky Dec 2014 #1
Great entertaining talk by a noted scientist JDDavis Dec 2014 #2
One of the great take-away lines from this address. JDDavis Dec 2014 #3
Excellent talk... rexcat Dec 2014 #4
Will have to watch this later. progressoid Dec 2014 #5
 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
3. One of the great take-away lines from this address.
Wed Dec 24, 2014, 11:58 AM
Dec 2014

Speaking about the ugliness of Ken Hamm and all the "creationist" elements in our current world, and their "museums" attracting children to believe in the Bible stories:

"The longer time you have a mind that is shut down, the more time there is for bigotry to develop."

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