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Demonized and Demonizing No More.

…nt X, Y, and Z in order to even count as an atheist. As a former fundamentalist Christian, I understand that impulse, but I am surprised by how pervasive it is within organized atheism. I read about a recent study of Finnish atheists and religionists in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion that found that the concept of God had as powerful an emotional force for atheists as it did for believers. So functionally, despite the abs…

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Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

…ele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s parenting classic, How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, because, if they pay attention, they may have a prayer of being decent in any job involving communication with human beings. There’s a particular art to using words with young human beings such that they keep using words around you. Beverly Cleary was a genius at writing words for human beings navigating life while little. In Ramona the…

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Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism

…ous beliefs. Huckabee recently said that all Americans should be forced to listen to pseudo-historian David Barton at gunpoint. While his name doesn’t appear on the list of the company’s “master historians,” Huckabee is clearly following Barton’s template where everything is spelled out in terms of good versus evil and anything in between is simply airbrushed from history. They’re like a Sarah Palin speech crossed with those Davey and Goliath cart…

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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

…ms for possible inclusion. Proclamation Recognizing the Year of the Bible: Lists items for possible inclusion. Proclamation Recognizing Christmas Day: Lists items for possible inclusion.   Category 3: Religious Liberty Protection LegislationPublic Policy ResolutionsResolution Establishing Public Policy Favoring Intimate Sexual Relations Only Between Married, Heterosexual Couples: Resolves “that the public policy of this State supports and encourag…

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Original Spin: Progressives Dismiss Conservative Theology at Their Peril

…io interview with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. No, I don’t listen to Tony Perkins. I found the quote thanks to Think Progress blogger Scott Keyes, who offered what he calls this “outlandish statement” as an example of conservatives’ tendency “to dress their political ideology in religious language.” Maybe so. Politicians typically say what their audiences want to hear and this kind of God-talk would certainly please Tony Perkins’ a…

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Santa Executed by Repent Amarillo

…quad. In a video by the outfit (who, by the way, “abhor violence”) Santa’s list of “heinous crimes against the Lord our God” are read out before the execution. Among them “idolatry” for replacing himself with Jesus Christ, and for being a “stumbling block to parents who lie to their children that you exist to bring them gifts.” Then, before the violence begins, Santa is told: “We would plead that the Lord have mercy on your soul, but you have no s…

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A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

…t via their own offspring?” Vance and Masters have both not been shy about promoting their openly anti-democratic aspirations. Both have ties to right-wing extremist blogger Curtis Yarvin, a raging monarchist. Vance supports the governing model of Caesarism, which has risen to prominence on the American Right in recent years, claiming: “We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wi…

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Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

…came after only three hearings, during which families quarreled with journalists who tried to photograph their relatives in the dock. The courtroom erupted into a frenzy after the word “acquittal” was heard from the judge and women ululated. Scott Long, an American researcher who had followed the case said he was both “shocked and delighted.” “I hope this is a sign that these raids will come to an end,” Long told The Associated Press amid the chee…

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Capricology: Week 2: The Soul of a Robot

…l season, with new installments every Tuesday. Check here for the complete list of discussions,  or sign up here for the RSS feed. Here’s an exchange between Salman Hameed, Diane Winston and Henry Jenkins, on episode two.   Salman Hameed______________________ Fellow Capricologists, Episode two was bit of a let-down for me. Perhaps it was to be expected after watching a finely crafted 2-hour pilot. May be it was because too many themes were crammed…

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Size Matters According to New Study

…smaller brains” (Houston Chronicle)  In fact, that’s a somewhat selective list of stories on the findings of a highly selective study. Involving less than three hundred people, the study looked at the brain volume of a group of people it divvied up according to religious affiliation (Protestant, Catholic, “born again” and unaffiliated). (Un)born again Protestants apparently won the brain volume prize.  Bracketing the question of who devises studi…

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