This is a coherent, intelligent and fair look back at how religion has affected the face of not just America but of the entire Western civilization. It’s a wonderful fifty minute crash course in how to stand up to the religious moral majority who have decided *their* belief is more valid than yours or mine.

Make a sandwich, pour a cuppa and settle in. You won’t be disappointed, I promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vquOuWx6NlA

 

If you don’t have time to watch the entire lecture, at least skip to 42:54
This is the beginning of AronRa’s unveiling of the true nature of the Tea Party and the segment opens with this very uncomfortable yet accurate and compelling rationale:

Before you say your country would never do that… take a look at what your country has already done

Gave me goosebumps.