in ethics from vanderbilt university and has taught in many colleges, the brokers moral darwinism, how we became hedonists showing darwinism completely undermines the ethical foundations of christianity, judaism and islam because its materialism, cosmology is incompatible with natural law. he has also co written books, the architects of the culture of death and ten books that screwed up the world. his book today is "worshipping the state: how liberalism became our state religion". please welcome benjamin wiker. [applause] >> thank you very much and thank you for bringing me here once again. cit is benjamin wiker. everyone does that. it is note singh, not even a small one. "worshipping the state: how liberalism became our state religion," the title of my book is obviously all level in-your-face, makes a rather outlandish claim, first implies liberals worship the state and second that liberalism itself has become a kind of established religion. that brings us to an obvious set of questions. is this just overblown rhetoric to sell a book or is it true that liberalism really has become our

benjamin wiker of ttp hd from vanderbilt university and has taught at many colleges. dr. wiker road morrill darwinism. how we became hedonists showing how darwinism undermined the ethical foundation of christianity and islam. because its materialism cosmology is incompatible with the natural law. he's also co-written books as the architect of the culture and ten books that screwed up the world. his book today is worshiping the state health liberalism became our state religion. [applause] >> thank you very much for bringing me here once again. it is dr. wiker. that's okay. everyone does that and so it is no sin, not even a small one. it became our state religion. the title of my book is obviously a little in your face i guess you'd say. it makes a rather outlandish claim so it seems. first it implies that liberals were shipped the state and second that liberalism itself has become a kind of established religion that brings us to an obvious set of questions. is this overblown rhetoric to sell the book? liberalism has become our establish state religion and liberals somehow

>> vanderbilt university. >> how did you get from asian studies to law? in asian studies as an undergrad at pomona college in california all stop -- california. i found that to be an interesting course of study. i have nature medicine interest tremendous interest in global affairs and i attribute that to my growing up in honolulu. it is a melting pot. has a diverse population of people from all over the world. and so, that was a natural development for me. >> where did your family come from russian mark >> from china -- from? >> from china. they came from china to all right -- hawaii. on my father side, they came to work in the pineapple and sugarcane fields will stop -- fields. my ancestors were shopkeepers. >> what did your father do? >> he is a physician by training and profession. >> mom? >> homemaker. >> you have two sisters who are lawyers and a brother who is a doctor. >> we have a family of four kids, as you mentioned. ,t is interesting about brother who is a practicing rheumatologist in san francisco and went into medicine following my father's f

a pipe bomb mailed to the head of the computer department at vanderbilt university in nashville explodes when it's opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when an engineering professor diaganos picks it up. he, too, suffers severe burns and wounds. >> you can look at what they call victimology. and you try and determine perhaps people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person who's doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these people, none of the victims over the years had any connections. >> did they go to the same universities? did they have difficulty with one person and was there a commonality between all the victims? and that was very difficult, because we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. >> there are no incidents for almost two years. then on may 15th, 1985, engineering student and aspiring astronaut john e. hauser is nearly killed when he picks up a parcel left in a

a pipe bomb mailed to the head of the computer department at vanderbilt university in nashville explodeshen it's opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers wounds. >> you can look at what they call victimology. and you try and determine perhaps people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person who's doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these people, none of the victims over the years had any connections. >> did they go to the same universities? did they have difficulty with one person and was there a commonality between all the victims? and that was very difficult, because we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. >> there are no incidents for almost two years. then on may 15th, 1985, engineering student and aspiring astronaut john e. hauser is nearly killed when he picks up a parcel left in a computer room on the uc berkeley

a pipe bomb mailed to the head of the computer department at vanderbilt university in nashville explodes when it's opened by a secretary. she sustains severe burns to her hands and shrapnel wounds to her body. two months later at the university of california berkeley, a package explodes when engineering professor picks it up. he too suffers severe burns and shrapnel wounds. >> usually in bombings you can look at victimology and you try and determine, perhaps, people or businesses or something that all of the victims had in common with the suspect or the person who's doing the bombings in this case. with unabomb, none of these people, none of the victims over the years had any connections. >> did they go to the same universities? did they have difficulty with one person and was there a commonality between all the victims? and that was very difficult, because we had literally hundreds and hundreds of suspects. >> there are no incidents for almost two years. then on may 15th, 1985, engineering student and aspiring astronaut john e. hauser is nearly killed when he picks up a parcel left in a

>> vanderbilt university in tennessee. >> i understand you originally studied asian studies when you began your education. where was that. how do you get from asian studies to the law. >> you're correct. i majored in asian studies when i was an underground at pomona college in california. and i found that to be a very interesting course of study. i have a tremendous and still do a tremendous interest in international affairs, how the global community works, and i think i attribute that to my growing up in honolulu which is as many people say a melting pot. honolulu tends to and does, the state of hawaii has a very diverse population of people from all around the globe. and so, that -- that was kind of a natural development for me. >> where did your family come from origin naaoriginally? >> from china in the mid 1800s. >> why did they come to hawaii. did they come to hawaii? >> they did -- they came from china to hawaii. my grandparents, great grand parts, came on my father's side to work in the pineapple and sugar cane fields on the plantations and on my mother's side, my ancestors w

ac research conducted by vanderbilt university shows the most important factor in weight loss was how that- drastically people change their eating habits. the findings also showed that people do equally well eating or not eating breakfast. researchers say these findings have been drowned out by observational studies that have found associations between break the-breakfast habit and obesity but no real link. the mother of the 32 year- old victim who fell to his death at last sunday's 40 niner dame says her son was not too drunk to walk. janet hayes says her son kevin, was drinking and it held a party with his brother but insists he fell because he was walking up a ramp holding onto a real then turned onto a staircase where the real was lower. he was supposed to be the best man at his brother's wedding this coming weekend. the victim's family has been season ticket holder since 1946. on to bay area baseball. the a's on the road and minnesota. and oakland was firing on all cylinders. every oakland starter had at least one hit, one run and one rbi as the a's recorded a season high 22 hits

in ethics from vanderbilt university and has taught in many colleges, the brokers moral darwinism, how we became hedonists showing darwinism completely undermines the ethical foundations of christianity, judaism and islam because its materialism, cosmology is incompatible wi

tuesday night at 6:30 p.m., a small group of students from tennessee state, medical college, vanderbilt universitypeabody, american baptist theological seminary, would come together, and we would study the teachings of ghandhi, what he attempted to do in south africa, what he accomplished in india. we would study the role in civil disobedience. we'd study the great religions of the world. we had a wonderful teacher, a man by the name of jim lawson, and he infused us with the way of nonviolence. many ofith us during those ear days accepted nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living, not simply as a technique or as a tactic. and that became the wave of the nashville movement. >> thank you, o sir. ambassador young, i think all of us who were at the march realized that we were experiencing something very special. i wonder what it was about the march that left you moved. >> in the first place, coming out of birmingham, we didn't think much of the march. we thought the movement was in the streets and we had 5,000 students take over the city. we collapsed the economy. we got an agreement from 100 b

vanderbilt, pages 101-104 you take them to task. why are you so upset about that? >> guest: not just them. they have been followed by most recently you probably followed the university of california's entire system. they have, quote, derecognized religious groups. they said a religious group, not just christians but jews, muslims, all sorts of religious groups, they cannot have their beliefs as a requirement for membership. i don't have the quotation in front of me but when one group asked to be recognized, of the christian groups, things like the amount of time someone had been in the group and their loyalty to the group and so on and four criteria, they had an allegiance to jesus christ and the administration sent it back and that was the only thing they struck out. if you do that, we have muslims and members of other societies? you could go on the line. if you think of it is absolutely absurd but a clear violation of people's free exercise to choose as leaders of their group, all the groups welcome everybody, they welcomed everybody but as leaders of the group they did insist that the leaders of the group believed, that was a simple matter of religious freedom. >