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Religious belief or nonbelief. in gratitude and love, in compassion, let us work together for a better arizona. thank you. >> that prayer got a rewrite the next day in the arizona house by republican representative, steve smith, who said that representative mendezs prayer was not a prayer at all and so he asked the house to join him in a second daily prayer that day. this one in repentance for the atheist, nonprayer that the house visited upon the house of representatives the day before. but not...

Its been 900 days. they passed a budget. this is the next step. >> yeah, exactly. up with steve, saturdays and sundays at 8:00 a.m. eastern. steve, thank you very much. >> sure. coming up in the rewrite, atheism scores a big political victory, and the pope finds common ground with atheists. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different. i met a turtle friend today so, you dont get that very often. it seemed like it was ...

First the outrage over the irs matter is certainly not just on one side of the aisle. lynn sweet is the washington bureau chief of the chicago sun time, ed okeefe, congressional reporter for the "washington post." good to sue both. lynn, let me start with you, the senate finance committee, headed by democrat max baucus will be holding hearings on the matter next week at yesterdays ways and means committee hearing, congressman charlie rangel said theism rs scandal contributes to a lack of governm...

How do we make government simpler? >> it is being done. one of my last acts in government was to ask all the big departments, including the department of treasury, which houses theism rs to take significant steps to cup down their paperwork burdens. we saw recently, quietly, in january, it was announced that 100 million hours in annual paperwork burdens are being cut in the near future. some taxpayers are seeing that this year and more are going to see it in the future. >> you also write in the ...

However, whats been on the rise as organized religion declined is the growth in nondenominational sort of pick and choose your own aspects of religion you like. thats on the rise. anyone who comes into the catholic church attempting to grow, it will have to deal with that. and the question becomes if you taylor make religion, do you divorce yourself from organized religion. >> pete. >> organized religion on its way out with more enlightened, more informed, more educated prosperous societies in t...

Experience. theres a sort of popular atheism thats no longer tabu to speak about, and i think thats an example you see many others in charles murray spoke in coming apart about how we are becoming less religious as a culture. not just as catholics, but many other faiths. thats a great challenge for the catholic church in the mechanics century. >> of the 118 cardinals who are going to be convening, are there any americans in that group who are real leaders and have seniority, george? >> yes. card...

Things are myths, not true. >> every chapter has myths at the beginning of the chapter. >> bill: hah-ha. >> egyps. >> bill: playing semantic games with me. you are trying to get to the kid and say you are an idiot if you believe with god. >> nothing with god. myths from all over the world. judeo myth is thrown in occasionally as one of many myths from around the world. >> bill: judeo-christian philosophy is not a myth. >> bill: through the history. so worst regimes have been atheist stick, commu...

Things are myths, not true. >> every chapter has myths at the beginning of the chapter. >> bill: hah-ha. >> egyps. >> bill: playing semantic games with me. you are trying to get to the kid and say you are an idiot if you believe with god. >> nothing with god. myths from all over the world. judeo myth is thrown in occasionally as one of many myths from around the world. >> bill: judeo-christian philosophy is not a myth. >> bill: through the history. so worst regimes have been atheist stick, commu...

A position of promoting atheism. >> bill: winter solstice is not a religion. its a holiday. if he wants to put winter soltis up on door i have no problem with it. >> you are right it could be secular. if you put up there. >> bill: jesus christ he was a man. christmas tree is a secular symbol. nothing to do with christianity. >> whats that first word? >> bill: secular symbol. >> christmas. christmas is a christmas tree. >> bill: this is so unreasonable. you are so unreasonable. >> no its not unre...

Religious belief or philosophy, fine. over another. >> bill: the government cannot promote a religion. >> no it says the congress shall not establish any laws respecting -- >> bill: reaj, not a philosophy. >> so you wouldnt have a problem then then with the government of the united states establishing atheism because thats also a philosophy. that would be fair for you. >> bill: establishing it? what does that mean. >> in governed we dont trust in all coins. one nation under no god in the pledge ...