Reading Time: 4 minutes Members of a Christian hate-group are outraged after their reservation was canceled at Metzger Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia. Last Wednesday night, members of The Family Foundation, a Christian non-profit that essentially acts as a right-wing faith-based lobbying group (without that designation), planned to host a reception for 15-20 people at the restaurant for […]
Religious bigotry
Posted inHistory
COVID-19 is Boston’s 1721 smallpox epidemic redux
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although the coronavirus pandemic is clearly starting to ebb, as of March 9, 2022 an average of 35,496 Americans were still be being hospitalized daily with the disease, and it’s still killing 1,451 citizens each day on average, the New York Times reported. So, the current pandemic is far from over in the U.S., which […]
Posted inHistory, The Secular
Spain, US growing more secular at similar, relentless rates
Reading Time: 4 minutes America for decades has lagged behind Western Europe in growing more secular. Now we seem to be catching up with Spain, though.
Posted inGeneral, The Secular
Who thinks aliens are more likely — believers or seculars? Wrong!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just say “X-Files” and you’ll learn how popular the concept of aliens is to human beings. You may be surprised to know who is least skeptical of them.
Posted inGeneral, Philosophy, The Secular
U.S. Christians decrying public shaming are pots calling kettles black
Reading Time: 5 minutes Public shaming is as Christian as crosses symbolizing the crucifixion. So Christians condemning public shaming in other contexts is hypocrisy.
Posted inPolitics, The Secular
Cardinal Burke yet another religious leader laid low by Covid after dissing vaccines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Disinformation about Covid-19 and its vaccines, as that perpetrated by now-infected Cardinal Raymond Burke, causes needless suffering and death.
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Trump, right-wing media, evangelicals share guilt in Covid disaster
Reading Time: 5 minutes The coronavirus itself is morally blameless in its devastation. But Donald Trump, right-wing media and accommodating Christians are not.
Posted inPolitics, The Secular
Atheist politicians are still technically illegal in 7 states? Is this a problem?
Reading Time: 4 minutes In seven U.S. states, laws — although they have long been ignored — preclude atheist politicians from holding public office. What’s to stop their revival?
Posted inThe Secular
Founding Father Thomas Paine loathed atheists. I believe he was one.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I believe colonial revolutionary Thomas Paine was mistaken in believing himself a godly man. Most of what he wrote reads like pure atheism to me.
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Unelected ‘Lords Spiritual’ enjoy automatic seats in U.K. Parliament
Reading Time: 4 minutes So-called “Lords Spiritual,” clergy granted unelected, full-power seats in the U.K.’s Parliament, are a symptom of chronic church-state non-separation.