Reading Time: 6 minutes First Amendment-loving conservatives have long blamed isolated mental-health issues in very angry individuals but never guns as the proximate cause of America’s decades-long epidemic of horrific mass shootings in America. Or they claim mass shootings are hardly a problem at all and that, by the way, overall gun violence is supposedly down in the United […]
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How identical twins can cause serious problems for ensoulment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ensoulment is the proposed process of a soul becoming attached or associated with the physical matter of a human at some point in their development. For religious people, this is commonly understood to happen at conception when the sperm and egg combine. We’ve already seen that IVF, with embryos being frozen by the million, can […]
Posted inLGBTQ
The UK will outlaw conversion therapy for gays, but not trans people
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the government refers to “talking therapies” it is, in effect, referring to prayer. So its exclusion of trans people from a conversion therapy ban it announced last week can only be interpreted as capitulation to pressure from religious groups who have been working flat-out to retain all “pray-away-the-gay” interventions. In announcing the ban in […]
Posted inEducation
A Christian school had kids write letters persuading a friend to stop being gay
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Christian Academy of Louisville in Kentucky told students to write letters urging a fictional gay friend to renounce homosexuality. The assignment, which was due on Thursday, came to light after a parent of one of the students shared screenshots of the rubric with a friend, who then posted them online. The assignment was apparently […]
Posted inComedy
Scientists reveal black hole in the center of West Virginia is Joe Manchin
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the first time, scientists showed the world the center of West Virginia’s black hole that is devouring President Joe Biden’s and the Democrat’s agenda. The picture confirms that Senator Joe Manchin is that black hole. The massively dense object does not only consume massive amounts of federal spending that is sent to the state […]
Posted inLeaving Religion
Evolution of an atheist
Reading Time: 6 minutes Blaise Pascal, the famous 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, had some advice for those who were undecided about the existence of God. In what has become known as “Pascal’s Wager,” he argued that, given a choice between believing or not believing in God, the wise decision is to believe that God exists. “If you gain, […]
Posted inReligion
Biblical slavery: does regulation mean approval?
Reading Time: 4 minutes God regulates slavery instead of banning it, so he must approve—or does he? Perhaps Jesus can rescue God’s good name by reinterpreting the Old Testament.
Posted inReproductive rights
The Catholic Justices driving the Supreme Court’s Roe reversal
Reading Time: 5 minutes I grew up Catholic, so I know something about the ancient faith’s hammerlock absolutism, especially regarding anything even remotely sexual. That’s why I immediately thought of sexuality when I learned along with everyone else this week about the “leaked draft opinion” of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. in a case that threatens […]
Posted inGeneral
Police chief who brought down God’s wrath on a UK city is dead
Reading Time: 4 minutes Years ago, I was taking a perfectly respectable leak in a public toilet when I suddenly became aware that someone was standing close behind me, looking over my shoulder. When I turned to see who the willy-watcher was I saw a member of the Greater Manchester police staring down at my business. In mid-stream, I […]
Posted inWar and Peace
A horrific ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya shows the limits of our moral attention
Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2019, a brutal ‘gay purge’ took place in the Russian republic of Chechnya. It was not the first. Since 2017, gay men have been hunted, abducted, and tortured by the Chechen authorities. Some have been murdered. The story was briefly covered by Western media. Thinking that the return (yet again) of concentration camps to […]