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Champagne socialist

The term "champagne socialist" is a logical fallacy in which critics of capitalism are subject to an Appeal to hypocrisy, to dismiss any and all arguments and criticisms.
It was coined by a confederate solider, who remained his entire life a complete defender of white supremacy and slavery by championing the Lost Cause.George Cary Eggleston (1839-1911)
As a snarl word, it's used primarily by folks who believe in shooting the messenger that people who have been the beneficiaries of capitalism should be precluded from criticizing its failures and shortcomings.
==Some examples==
The term was first used to criticise the first Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald,What's the problem with champagne socialism? Oscar Wilde,Will Shelf: Oscar Wilde, champagne socialism and why I am voting Labour and even the non-socialist New Labour.How Blair's New Labour went flat for champagne socialism by the Torygraph
==Other terms==
* Limousine liberal, Lexus liberal, and latte liberal (in the United States)
* Brosocialist and Manarchist (amongst feminists)
* Bourgeois bohemian (France, though David Brooks tried to appropriate it)
* Chardonnay socialist (generally in Australia and New Zealand)
* Coffee-house communist (in IndiaIt comes from the Indian Coffee House, which is a federation of worker co-operatives)
* Shiraz socialist
* Gauche caviar (France)
* Progre(sista) de salón (Spain)
* Socialista Caviar (Portugal)
* Kystbanesocialist (Denmark)
* Grachtengordelsocialist (Netherlands)
* SWPL (from the satirical blog Stuff White People Like)
* Kawiorowa lewica (Poland)
* Smoked salmon socialist (Ireland)Smoked Salmon Socialists and Others. Irish Times, 28 October 1998.
==See also==
* Cloth coat Republican — Its diametrical opposite, though no less self-righteous.
* Fun:You have two cows
==Notes==
==References==
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Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith

Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith () is a Christian theistic evolution book, written in 2007 by one Christoph Schönborn — an Austrian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
The main claim of the book is that science is "incomplete" without woo spirituality, and that specifically the Christian God (out of all potential deities) is somehow guiding all natural processes.Introduction: Christoph, Cardinal Schoenborn's Chance or Purpose? Flickering light on the ID controversy at bestChance or Purpose? at St. Pauls Publications
==Overview==
In his book, Schönborn accepts evidence for evolution and common descent and claims that these scientific theories are compatible with Catholic belief. So far, so good.
Beyond that the troubles begin, however. Schönborn denies the "neo-Darwinian" interpretation of evolution, seeing evolution not as a random process, but as a directed one.As if the theory of evolution is based on the idea that "it's all random, maan."
While Schönborn claims that his views do not conflict with the theory of evolution, his arguments essentially parallel those of your standard IDiot — most notably in his attempts to replace natural processes (read: scientific theories that actually have explanatory power) with "God".
Catholics and Evolution: Interview with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
Chance or Purpose? at Ignatius Press
==Reception==
Schönborn is not only not a scientist, but indeed a faithful theologian.
As such, the book has been described not as a scientific, but a religious book — marketed towards Catholics who want to buy the conclusion that their Christianity still makes sense, whilst also (most wisely) accepting evolution.Book Review
==See also==
*Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator
*Can You Believe in God and Evolution?: A Guide for the Perplexed
*Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Christianity
Category:Religious books
Category:Theistic evolution
Chaos

Chaos is a term that refers to the state in which there is no order or predictability. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word χάος.
== Chaos in religion ==
=== Greek myth ===
In Greek creation myths, the state before the creation of the universe is known as chaos. "Chaos" in this sense actually means something closer to "void", "emptiness", or "abyss", rather than its modern meanings of "disorder", "confusion", or "wild and absurd events".chaos on Wiktionary ("Chaos" with a capital C apparently refers to a genus of amoebae.) In Greek myths, Chaos is — in addition to being effectively existence before existence — also a Primordial Entity or "Protogenoi", which were the first beings to come into existence, before even the titans. (Though technically, was both the void and the primordial entity. Creation myths can be weird like that.) Most people would be more familiar with the Protogenoi , , and (which were directly born from Chaos).
=== Creation and Chaos in mythology ===
Fighting against chaos appears as a common motif, and is referred to as chaoskampf, which is German for "struggle against chaos". Chaoskampf appears in the form of hero gods fighting against powers of chaos.
== Chaos in pop culture ==
Chaos is regarded as a metaphysical force in fantasy settings such as Dungeons & Dragons, in which it is often defined in terms of its opposition to law/orderSee "Order Versus Chaos" on TV Tropes for more details. (which in practice forms a situation not unlike ). This dichotomy has a tendency to be distinct from good and evil, though it can also overlap with them, particularly for the sake of creating more nuanced moral alignments.
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Chaos theory

Chaos theory is used to describe nonlinear systems which have vastly different outcomes depending on very small initial variations. Although they might appear to be random, they are in fact deterministic. The most common expression of chaos theory is the butterfly effect, wherein a butterfly flapping its wings in Amazonia (or China) can help cause tropical cyclones in Asia or North America.
The foundation of chaos theory was found by Edward Norton Lorenz in 1963 when, rather than starting a weather simulation at the beginning, he started it midway through using the numbers on a printout which were rounded to three figures after the decimal point. That small difference was enough to produce totally different results by the time the new program had reached the point where the old one ended.Gleick,James (2011) Chaos: Making a New Science Penguin, ISBN 0143113453.
Many chaotic systems exhibit the phenomenon of strange attractors which are almost identical states (velocity and position of a particle for example) which nonetheless never actually repeat. 
Fractals (self-similarity of systems at varying scales) are much used in computer graphics, where a simple formula can, by repeated iteration, produce complex forms. They are derived from application of chaos theory. The Mandelbrot set is a fractal which most people will be aware of.
The analysis of noise is also influenced by fractals.
The fern image below is a fractal, examination will show that successively smaller parts are morphed copies of the whole.
The word "fractal" comes from the fact that such objects have dimensions which are fractions of whole numbers.
Image:FracFern.png|Fractal fern
Image:mandel03.png|A beautiful bit of the Mandelbrot set
Chaos theory is often discussed (and misunderstood) by the general public. In practical daily life, the main use of chaos theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s was for people who did not understand 2+2 to use chaos theory jargon to pick up other people who did not understand 2+2, while nerdy mathematicians futilely tried to tell both they were doing it wrong. More recently, the butterfly effect has been offered as an explanation for how parallel universes can exist which were entirely identical except for the spelling of the surname of a family of cartoon bears, causing people to experience the Mandela effect when some other pseudoscientific mechanism causes them to slide through a wormhole from their original Berenstein reality into a Berenstain universe. This still has nothing at all to do with what chaos theory or the butterfly effect mean, needless to say.
Fiction has had similar ideas even earlier, though: Ray Bradbury's story "A Sound of Thunder" predicted something like this as early as 1952. "Die dreifache Warnung" (1911) by Arthur Schnitzler was even quicker, though, as Max Sinister discovered. Interestingly, both stories use butterflies.
==References==
==See also==
*Chaos
*Jurassic Park
==External links==
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*James Gleick's website (author of Chaos: Making a New Science)
*The ultimate Mandelbrot zoom
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Charles Chilton Moore

Charles Chilton Moore was an American atheist who founded The Blue Glass Blade, one of the first newspapers promoting atheism in the country, which he was only able to publish on a sporadic basis due to legal issues. In an age of religious idiocy, he spent time in prison for anti-theism for promoting "free love" in 1899. Moore's grandfather was Barton W. Stone, a prominent figure in the history of Christianity in the United States. To this day, atheists credit Moore as one of the fathers of American atheists and one of the most influential.
He was dubbed "Kentucky's most hated man" for pointing out the hypocrisy and idiocy of religion and the influence it has on society and political issues. Moore also had a thick beard, which kicked God's beard's ass.
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Charles K. Johnson

Charles K. Johnson was (now, don't laugh because he took it seriously) president of the International Flat Earth Society. This organisation seriously contends that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and surrounded by an ice wall at the South Pole. Under Charlie's enthusiastic period as President, membership of the IFES grew from "a handful" to around three thousand, which only goes to show that there are people out there who will believe anything. Johnson based his belief in a flat earth in his Biblical hyper-literalism: according to him, Jesus's ascent up into Heaven proves that the Earth is flat, since there could be no "up"/"down" if the Earth is round.
He died on March 19, 2001 at age 76, having never won his struggle to "Replace the science religion… with sanity!" It is unknown if his family buried him or simply threw him over the edge.
The IFES's main target was NASA who, they contended, had staged the moon landings as part of an elaborate hoax scripted by Arthur C. Clarke. 
==See also==
*Timecube
==External links==
* The Flat-out Truth: Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This Prophet (Robert J. Schadewald, Science Digest, July 1980)
* (Flat Earth News)
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Charles Templeton

Charles Bradley Templeton was a Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author. His early education was at Parkdale Collegiate Institute. 
==Life as an evangelist==
In 1936, Templeton converted to Christianity and became an evangelist. In 1941, he founded the Avenue Road Church, now a Hare Krishna temple, in Toronto, in a building that formerly housed a Presbyterian congregation, where he served as senior pastor despite his lack of formal theological training. The Avenue Road Church congregation eventually became affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination, and its name was changed to Bayview Glen Church. He was also best friends with Billy Graham and both made an evangelistic tour of western Europe, frequently rooming together, and holding crusades in England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and other countries. Few now recall that when Graham was just starting in the revivalism circuit, he was half of a team. Chuck Templeton (as he was then known) and Billy Graham, fondly called the "Golddust Twins", quickly grew famous for their deep faith and charismatic preaching.
==Deconversion to agnosticism==
Templeton was curious about the foundation of Christianity, so he attended the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1948. However, in 1957, after a long struggle with doubt, Templeton declared himself an agnostic and secular humanist. In 1995, Templeton described his eventual rejection of his faith in his final published work, Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith (1995). In the memoir, Templeton explained his reasons for leaving the faith for a variety of reasons: difficulties of the Christian creation myth, bigotry in the Bible, sexism, historical problems of Jesus, failure of prayer, the existence of evil, and suffering and death.
==Bibliography==
*Evangelism for Tomorrow (1955)
*Life Looks Up (1957)
*Jesus (1973)
*The Kidnapping of the President (1975) 
*Act of God (1977)
*The Third Temptation (1980)
*An Anecdotal Memoir (1983)
*The Queen's Secret (1986)
*World of One (1988)
*Succeeding (1989)
*End Back Attacks (1992)
*Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith (1995)
==Analysis==
His history is perhaps one of the most compelling examples of how studying and analyzing scripture and church history can destroy the faith of an earnest believer. It is also an example of how curiosity and faith do not mix.
==See also==
*RationalWiki Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted
==References==
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Charles Worley

Charles Larry Worley is an American fundamentalist Christian King James Only pastor, and current head of Providence Road Baptist Church, North Carolina.
==Controversy==
In a May 2012 sermon, Charles Worley made some horrible and ridiculously stupid statements regarding homosexuals and death camps.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu4q2-nbvrw He argued that a solution to the "problem" of homosexuals would be to have the entire American gay community interred in a giant 'pen with an electrified fence', so they couldn't escape and reproduce, and thus would eventually all die out. Any rational human may wonder how they'd reproduce anyway! He said that he could not get this law past Congress, because America is currently being led by a "baby killing homosexual lover", and that the next gay child to be born should be the first person interred (How would you know if a baby is gay!). And anyone who doesn't oppose homosexuality has no sense, because, in the words of Worley "Gahd and the Bahbull are aggenit, and ah'm aggenit!"Worley actually speaks like this.
==Reactions==
The legendary comedian George Carlin periodically rose from the grave to give an excellent response to Worley's idiotic hatred, but some folks from Kansas may disagree with part of his agenda.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLs6BIaGYmc Sorry, guys.
Surprisingly, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church did not comment on Worley. Worley's probably just another fag-enabler disguised as a warrior for Christ.
To no surprise, the vile Worley had some of his brain dead sheeple defend him; they claimed that our problem is not with Worley, but it is in fact with God, because Charles Worley is speaking for God. Or something like that.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B70Msi7vrmE
==See also==
*Homophobia
*Religious Right
*Fred Phelps
*Ted Haggard He is not gay.
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Fundamentalists
Category:Homophobes
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Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt was once a senior policy advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education. She was also a co-founder of Guardians of Education for Maine, an educational activism group. She promoted a conspiracist view of educational problems that attributes American anti-intellectualism to the evil machinations of former Soviet KGB agents.Charlotte Iserbyt. Former KGB Heads to Helps Spy on Americans. NewsWithViews.com. 2003 April 24. If you hear the sound of hoofbeats in Central Park, then surely it must be the sound of… former Soviet KGB agents dressed up as zebras.
==Book==
In 1999, Iserbyt published The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ The book outlines Iserbyt's criticism of the American education system, wherein, according to her, schools and universities are used to suppress creative thinking, and to encourage students to toe the line.
Some of her findings:
* A child who can read, write and compute at a sufficient level should have no limitations on controlling his or her own destiny. Providing such basic education is not and should not be expensive, but the subsequent brainwashing is an expensive and long process.
* In 1972, a survival problem was presented to a class where a lifeboat was overloaded and students needed to decide who to toss off the lifeboat to ensure that some survived. When the students found a method that allowed all people to survive, the professor rejected it and insisted the problem be done again.
* After Iserbyt questioned the educational value of some pedagogical methods, she discovered that some critics were calling her a "kook" for maintaining what she believed was a principled position.
==References==
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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter) and also known as "Moses" was an American actor, Screen Actor's Guild union president (1965-71),SAG Presidents and the figurehead of the National Rifle Association for many years. As an actor, he appeared in over 100 films over the course of 60 years and is a decent one by most accounts, but his acting career, unfortunately, has been largely overshadowed by his legacy as a gun rights spokesperson. 
Heston's role as an N.R.A. activist is perhaps best remembered for his use of the slogan "Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!" "from my cold, dead hands." Contrary to popular opinion, In his 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine filmmaker Michael Moore ambushed conducted an interview with Heston in which it was apparent that the actor was quite obviously suffering from dementia, but Moore still used the footage to stand as an explanation for the logic of Second Amendment activists. Then Moore filmed himself shouting at an empty driveway and spliced footage of Heston walking away over it.
Heston's legacy stands as a reminder of how complex and contradictory human beings can be: While he had a solid career and worked for good causes, in all likelihood he will, unfortunately, be remembered for his embrace of an extreme position in later life. 
==Reasons to like him==
Because of his gun-totin' antics in later life, people forget his achievements, especially those of a so-called "liberal" character:
* He was a vocal campaigner for the cause of African-American equality and one of the most prominent white celebrities to support the civil rights struggle.
* He opposed the Vietnam War at the time (although later recanted).
* He was open about his problems with alcohol and Alzheimer's Disease.
* He starred in Planet of the Apes, an excellent satire of religious fundamentalism, and racism.
* He also starred in Ben-Hur, The Big Country, El Cid, Touch of Evil, Major Dundee, The Three Musketeers, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, The Agony and the Ecstasy and many other great performances.
* If four-hour biblical epics are your kick, The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Story Ever Told are worth seeing. They're good. For that sort of thing.
* No less than Orson Welles thought Heston was one of the greatest actors he had ever directed.
==The case the other way==
Heston seems to have undergone a kind of political transformation in the 1980s. Maybe he just became a grumpy old man.
* He narrated some dodgy documentaries on various aspects of pseudohistory, etc.
* He supported the Iraq War (so did Christopher Hitchens, if that means anything).
* He supported Reagan and both the greater and the lesser George Bush.
* He was a creationist.
* He was a gun nut
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Charter for Compassion

The Charter for Compassion is a short text promoting compassion, tolerance and other feel-good stuff, and a website that hosts it and invites people to "affirm the Charter" and "spread the word" — essentially a form of slacktivism.
==Origin==
Although it claims to be an ecumenical and universal document, the Charter is essentially a warming-over of Christianity's "greatest commandment in the law," as hashed out by Jesus in Matthew 22:37-40 and also referenced by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:13. This is understandable, since it was made by an ex-nun, Karen Armstrong, who had departed the cloister to become a "freelance monotheist" and study modern literature.http://charterforcompassion.org/about
==Content==
The short text of the charter contains some, uh, rather questionable statements. Two of the more egregious howlers are:
The followers of would, one would suppose, take umbrage at that, the heart of their traditions running more in the direction of fire and slaughter; but even among the old traditions, paganism generally put more emphasis on duty or excellence than on love or compassion (this became a major selling-point during Christianization). Islam, meanwhile, is named for its call for followers to submit to the will to God, rather than love or compassion.
One wonders exactly which "scripture" is being referred to here. It is certainly not the Qur'an, indeed one would have to do some fancy footwork in order to maintain that did not "breed violence" back in the old days, especially considering that its author and his successors did just that, fighting massive wars of conquest and religious subjugation.
It is certainly not the Old Testament, either, seeing as how it contains an explicit example of how a very legitimate "interpretation of scripture" bred violence, in the story of the semi-legendary King Josiah of Judah (2 Kings 22-23). The story starts with the Israelites having become polytheistic, worshipping figures such as the earth-mother Asherah in addition to YHVH. After Josiah is crowned as king, a scroll is found in the temple to YHVH at Jerusalem with a certain part of the Pentateuch written on it. Upon reading the scroll, Josiah hastily embarks on what the text characterizes as an extended bout of holiness,2 Kings 23:25. burning and desecrating many cultic objects, killing numerous priests, digging up some more and giving them a posthumous immolation. Mr. Compassionate, indeed.
==Notable signatories==
Among the document's signatories are:
*Deepak Chopra
*The Dalai Lama
*Eve Ensler
*Several members of the deposed Greek royal house
==External links==
*The Charter for Compassion homepage
==References==
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