Reading Time: 6 minutes In late May of this year, while reeling from the news of the mass shootings in a Buffalo, NY grocery store and Uvalde, TX elementary school, I found myself thinking about which progressive country with sensible gun regulations I could emigrate to. A place where my husband and I could send our son to school […]
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Gun ownership by religious affiliation
Reading Time: < 1 minute 25% of nonbelievers and 23% of religiously unaffiliated own a gun in 2021. This is higher than other non-Christians. Approximately 30% of non-Catholic Christians own a gun.
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America is a culture of death
Reading Time: 6 minutes Americans die in huge numbers because of a minority’s cultlike obsession with guns, and because our broken political system makes reform almost impossible.
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The wisdom of Karl Marx applied to school shootings
Reading Time: 3 minutes Karl Marx gives us an insight that reveals a new response to school shootings.
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Between massacres: a uniquely American horror show in seven acts
Reading Time: 7 minutes On May 14, 2022 at 2:30 pm local time, a shooter entered a building in an American city and took innocent lives. The name of the shooter is insignificant, while their race and gender are both significant and mostly predictable. This time the city was Buffalo, New York, but similar atrocities in a hundred US […]
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Getting to the root of Christianity’s hair problem
Reading Time: 9 minutes I was never one to blend in with the other kids back in 1960s. My mother made certain of that. She set up a fashion store for kids in a small town in South Africa and used me to model the latest fashions, sending me out to gauge public reaction. I was a mere slip […]
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On Rittenhouse’s acquittal
Reading Time: 9 minutes “The idea of citizens arming themselves to supplement the police, when the police are being too casual with protestors, when the police aren’t being fascist enough. That’s not anything I thought I’d see in my lifetime in this country. It feels like a really dark place; it feels like a really really dark moment.” – […]
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Atlanta Shooter’s Church Deletes Dodgy Sermons
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Atlanta gunman recently shot a number of women, most of them being Asian American women. This has caused a number of uncomfortable conversations to take place – was this a case of misogyny or good old-fashioned racism, or both, or neither? FiveThirtyEight had a really worthwhile conversation on this that I got a lot […]
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Ted Cruz and His Erroneous Claims about Guns
Reading Time: 3 minutes Senator Ted Cruz never misses a chance to speak out against gun control and digs the Second Amendment. He does so to such a degree that … he held a 2015 campaign event (during the presidential primary race) at an Iowa gun shop and range. Before he ascended to Congress (and abandoned freezing Texas constituents while fleeing […]
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Religion Shapes American Attitudes about Gun Ownership, Study Shows
Reading Time: 4 minutes For those of us in the atheistic blogosphere, the fact that there is a close relationship in the States between gun ownership (and fervour) and religiosity is not surprising. This piece of research is an interesting window into that relationship: Whether it’s a fear of violence or a steadfast belief in constitutional rights, Americans have […]