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Freedom requires education: There’s no choice without knowledge
Reading Time: 4 minutes [Previous: No one has the right to starve a child’s mind] Imagine you find yourself in a room, facing two doors. One door is rough, weathered wood. The other is made of boards polished smooth. There’s carved writing on both, but it’s in a language you don’t read, in characters you’ve never seen. There are […]
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Humanists Challenge Tennessee School District over Unconstitutional Graduation Prayers
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is from the AHA: Today, the American Humanist Association (AHA)’s legal director notified Tennessee school officials of looming legal action over constitutional violations occurring at Bledsoe County High School, and most likely within the Bledsoe County School district at large, in Pikeville, Tennessee. The AHA’s demand letter, written on behalf of a concerned AHA […]
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Humanists Halt Indoctrination of Kindergarteners in Texas Public School
Reading Time: 2 minutes Success! From the American Humanists Association: In response to the American Humanist Association (AHA)’s legal director threatening Texas school officials with legal action over indoctrination in kindergarten classrooms, Round Rock Independent School District counsel provided AHA’s lawyer today with written assurances that the unconstitutional conduct will not continue. AHA’s Legal Director and Senior Counsel, Monica […]
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Faith Schools in the UK: An Ongoing Battle
Reading Time: 7 minutes Education in the UK is very different to what it is in the US for a whole host of reasons, one being the historical ties to religion and education. Though we are culturally a far more “secular” country, institutionally, we are not. Here, I will relate three articles from Humanists UK (I have permission to […]
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Number of Pupils at CofE Schools more than Entire ‘Worshipping Community’
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK education system is not secular in the way that the Us system is, even though we are a more “secular” country. Something like 37% of our primary schools are faith schools, often only nominally in name (it depends on the head teachers, Senior Leadership Teams, governors and dioceses of the school), but sometimes […]
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The Black-White IQ Gap as Being Environmental
Reading Time: 7 minutes I am tired of the racists who come on these threads and attempt to spread their agenda-laden claptrap of race realism. The latest example was an article I wrote concerning a comment that I so thoroughly debunked that it was no surprise to see the level of cognitive dissonance in the original defenders of that […]
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Welsh Government introduces new Bill requiring Religion, Values, and Ethics lessons to be fully inclusive of humanism
Reading Time: 3 minutes From Humanists UK: A new Welsh Government Bill that will change the law on religious education to make it clear that humanism must be taught about equally alongside the major religions has been laid before the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) this week. Wales Humanists – which has long campaigned for a curriculum that treats religions and humanism equally […]
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A Personal Example of Manifested Systemic Racism
Reading Time: 13 minutes I spend an awful lot of time arguing about racism with people in my personal life, both on Facebook and face-to-face. I have had some unbelievable conversations with people very close to me that show that overt, explicit racism is alive and well thank you very much, and that an awful lot of people not […]
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The Bible’s attitude toward the life of the mind
Reading Time: 8 minutes Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. —Ecclesiastes 12:12-13 What is the biblical attitude toward the life of the mind? Is the Christian faith pro-intellect? Or does […]