O’Reilly vs. Reality

I am absolutely sick and utterly disgusted with people like Hillary Clinton and Bill O'Reilly blaming violence on video games. I am absolutely thrilled and utterly astonished to find a terrific video on YouTube which makes some excellent points from the other side of the table.  You may have seen this already, but it deserves to be seen again and it needs to be passed along.

So please, if you haven't seen it give it a watch and tell your friends.  Sadly we have respected liberals like Clinton who are looking for any excuse to absolve parents of their responsibilities for the way they bring their children up and we have conservatives like O'Reilly who are just itching for ways to bring religion back to the power and sway it held back in the days of Galileo. 

The truth of the matter is that poor and negligent parenting and peer influence contribute to youth violence, and religion has historically fomented more violence than any other single cause.  This isn't to say religion is wholly bad, but the recent religious/political movement is extremely reactionary and attempts to replace fact with fiction as with so-called "Intelligent Design".  And the way things are going if we don't actively defend science, reason and even First Amendment rights against these attacks we risk losing them and falling down into a modern version of the dark ages.

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