When it comes to Education, too many state legislators are determined to use taxpayer dollars to violate the separation between church and state.
New Religious Privilege legislation in states across the country could shield religious organizations from all civil and criminal liability. Arkansas has passed a Denial of Healthcare bill to accommodate the religious beliefs of medical staff when treating patients.
I don’t think the killings in Atlanta were motivated primarily by racism. The killer was deeply religious and belonged to a conservative church that pervert’s normal sexual development by indoctrinating and radicalizing children into abnormal purity culture where religion blames women for men’s sexual problems. Evangelicals are teaching false doctrine, says Jesus Christ. I have been telling them that for years! Anyway, we all know “religious freedom” in not about Jesus. It’s about Money.
A Chilean bishop calls for Christians to be permitted to infect the neighbors they love with Covid19.
What color was the real imaginary Jesus?
UN Report on the Use of Shari’a as religious justification for murdering LGBTI Persons. Strange that Tony Perkins is the vice chair of that report.
When it comes to filling out a census form be sure to tick “no religion”.
There is no need to define people by their unbelief. If the entire human race woke up tomorrow without any religious beliefs, we would not be a planet of unbelievers, heretics or even atheists. We are slowly getting to that point but the process is rather complex.
This week’s Woo: Food is not medicine.
Environment: Three key things a climate scientist learned during COVID.
Three entirely new lifeforms discovered on space station.
When did the “Age of Humans” begin and what role could lightning have played in creating life?
The science behind how our brains shape reality and what would happen to our understanding of reality if the Standard Model was demolished? Is Consciousness everywhere?
Six fabulous facts about the Standard Model.
The role of CRISPR in future pandemics.
Long Reads: Finding books to read during wartime. Science goes rogue, by Lawrence Krauss. Nobody regrets not reading War and Peace if they have only have one more day to live.
This week I will read this book: Mine! How the hidden rules of ownership control our lives.
Some photographs taken last week. World nature photography awards.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……
Coffee Break Video: The world’s dumbest Creationist. Teach girls bravery, not perfection. RIA Hamilton Lecture 2020 on the Cosmic Distance Ladder.
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