Reading Time: 2 minutes The first Thursday in May every year is a tad significant in the U.S. With roots in the early Republic, a 1952 Congress established this day as the ‘National Day of Prayer,’ one in which the President is required to instruct citizens to pray. How odd a notion while wielding a Constitution that forbids the […]
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Posted inEthics and Morality, The Secular
Of faith and fetal cells, COVID and cannibalism
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Catholic Church has been surprisingly nuanced in weighing fetal-cell use in coronavirus vaccines vs. life-saving vaccine efficacy in advising faithful.
Posted inGeneral, Politics, The Secular
‘The Nation’ normalizing astrology is like ‘Mother Jones’ endorsing junk food
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Nation is an august progressive magazine. Then, why is it normalizing astrology and horoscopes? It can’t actually believe that stuff, can they?
Posted inPhilosophy, Science, The Secular
Why are philosophy, empiricism falsely joined at hip? No good reason.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Empiricism and philosophy are schizoid opposites. Why do the definitions of both conjoin them in dreamy philosophy? I haven’t a clue.
Posted inScience, The Secular
There’s a teapot orbiting the sun. Don’t believe it? Prove it.
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s not up to atheists to disprove theism but to theists to prove it. If a proposition lacks enough substantiality to be tested in reality, it’s invalid.
Posted inEvolution, Religion, The Secular
Christian devotees remain stuck in their faith’s medieval conjurings
Reading Time: 2 minutes Much but not most of the world, especially the West, appears to be moving toward religious apathy. It’s a positive trend. But it could suddenly reverse.
Posted inThe Secular
Losing faith is a good thing. Losing its architectural glories is not.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spectacularly beautiful examples of Christian church architecture are crumbling in place in Europe, as once devout church-goers abandon faith.
Posted inUncategorized
Why would anyone in their right mind oppose face masks in a plague?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Public-health experts are begging Americans to wear face masks and stay home for Thanksgiving. Still, airports were packed yesterday with holiday travelers.
Posted inReligion, Science, The Secular
If you ‘feel’ you have a ‘soul,’ that’s a clue you’re not thinking
Reading Time: 5 minutes Meditators, long-distance runners, young people in love and potheads all feel divine connections from time to time. They’re always mistaken.
Posted inHistory, Sex & Gender, The Secular
Why do honor-killers’ families applaud their murder of young women?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Honor killings, the ancient retribution for sins of the flesh in families, is also as contemporary as McDonalds franchises. We can thank religion for them.