We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Sage advice that hits close to my heart as I am going to be a dad at the beginning of August.

While this awesome spoof video has little to do with religion, I think we can all appreciate the value of educating the public and not simply providing mindless entertainment.

WHY DID WE MAKE THIS?
To be blunt: Science, technology, and education are important to us. But we live in a world where the little news we hear of schools, research, and the arts is when they’re laying their heads on the chopping block. We live in a world where celebrity and “reality” entertainment is winning the war for our attention. Though this may just seem like it’s playing off a funny trope, we do need superheroes in our world. Super men, women (and puppets), like those actualized by PBS, who inspire young generations to be scientists, teachers, and artists. But those heroes will not appear unless we create them.

This footage, which was apparently recorded using a hidden camera, of secret Mormon temple rituals started going viral on YouTube and Reddit yesterday.

Mormon temple ceremonies are a closely held secret. Until now.

For the first time in the 170+ year history of secret Mormon temple activity, those activities have been captured on film with a hidden camera.

Watch with your own eyes the sworn oath, known as the “Law of Consecration,” that US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has raised his arm to the square and vowed to obey, an oath that requires faithful Mormons to consecrate 100% of their current AND FUTURE time, talents and everything they will ever be blessed with, to the Mormon church and it’s goal to achieve a worldwide theocracy headed by Mormons.

Rick Santorum has a rather interesting message for attendees of the “Values Voter Summit” on Saturday, and the fact that they applauded his message is frighteningly telling.

“We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do. So our Colleges and Universities – they’re not going to be on our side”

“The basic premise of America and American values will always be sustained through two institutions — the church and the family,”

Anyone seen the movie Idiocracy? Yup, smart people are bad!

Like him or hate him, Pat Condell hits the nail right on the head.

How do you tell right from wrong, or good from evil? Scripture? I don’t think so.