Reading Time: 4 minutes The worship of Us Against The World has taken over Christianity.
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I’m Not Responsible For My Son’s Soul
Reading Time: 4 minutes Because I don’t believe in a wrathful god or an afterlife of pain, I don’t feel a responsibility to turn my son into an ideological carbon copy of me.
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Science Is Partisan, Like It Or Not
Reading Time: 4 minutes The culture war is already happening, and scientists didn’t start it.
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The Intellectual Prison of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trying to stop people from educating themselves is one of the worst crimes there is.
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Atlas Shrugged: The Ideological Event Horizon
Reading Time: 6 minutes How a philosophy of reason and individualism became a dogmatic cult.
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Changing Minds Takes Empathy (and Civility)
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can’t change someone’s mind until you understand the reasons why they believe as they do.
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How the Right-Wing Scam Economy Created Donald Trump
Reading Time: 4 minutes The rise of Donald Trump has bewildered and dismayed pundits, especially conservative pundits. Many of them are treating it as a freakish fluke, a black-swan event that nobody could have predicted. But the clues were always there, for anyone who knew how to spot them. In his last, doomed line of attack, Marco Rubio accused […]
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How Donald Trump Won Over the Religious Right
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, it’s time we talked about Donald Trump. The improbable presidential candidate has been flying high since his speech at Liberty University, where he was warmly welcomed by president Jerry Falwell Jr. The speech itself was underwhelming: he flubbed a biblical reference, cracked off-color jokes and made his pandering laughably obvious. Yet none of it […]
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Weekend Coffee: July 5
Reading Time: 2 minutes • Iceland repeals its blasphemy law, which they apparently had until now? • Three cheers for California! The state legislature ends all non-medical exemptions for mandatory vaccination, despite vociferous protests from die-hard anti-vaxers. • In the wake of the Obergefell decision legalizing same-sex marriage, some Christians are writing optimistically about the last-ditch option of retreating […]
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Erasing the Past, Denying the Future
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the eyes of the religious conservative movement, America’s best days are always in the past. They bemoan the modern era of activist government, heightened sensitivity, and moral complexity, and look back fondly to an imaginary golden age where the wealthy could do as they pleased, the state bowed down to the church, and men […]