Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

America is becoming a little more religious. The change in the UK is even greater.

Meet the Top 24 leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation in the U.S.

Why the Founding Fathers wanted to ensure the separation of church and state.

World of Woo: Netflix and The Plastic Detox.

Environment: The emotional contradictions of climate messaging.

When will the anti-vaccine fever break?

Does the Artemis II excite the MAGA moon landing deniers?  Great they made it home safely. There are many challenges to living on the moon.

Science flies you to the moon; religion flies you into buildings.

The Earth formed from local building blocks.

The human body isn’t a masterpiece of design – it’s a patchwork of evolutionary compromise.

Yes, we have no Free Will.

The 2026 word of the year will be Cognitive Surrender. Further commentary here. This will be a much bigger problem for students soon.

RFK Jr. expresses his sympathy for children with autism by demeaning them.

Nancy Guthrie disappearance highlights Psychic failure.

Donald Trump wird Harmeet Dhillon als Generalstaatsanwältin nominieren.

It’s time to rethink the pursuit of happiness.

Humans’ closest invertebrate ancestors date back much further than thought and our modern vision evolved from an ancient one-eyed worm creature.

Consciousness depends on biological embodiment and might involve processes that can’t be simulated computationally.

This is from Templeton so it is more a rebranding of metaphysics than a scientific theory.

Algorithmic social media has learned to simulate meaningfully absorbed living and turned its addicts into Zombies with passive, low-agency brain killing fodder.

Sunday Book Club: Beyond Belief. How evidence shows what really works.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:  A brief history of atheism. Do we have a lazy lord?  10 Historical Facts that make Jesus impossible! How Christianity made America and how America remade Christianity. The Physics that makes Interstellar Travel impossible. Is Trump a Russian Asset?

 

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week everyone !!

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Somehow, my earlier attempt got setup as a Post instead of a Forum topic. They are separate systems in WordPress. Once I got promoted to Mod again, I was able to fix it. Hope you find something there to think about. 🙂

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Christian: Reg, do you know why do so many MAGA people wear a crucifix around their necks?

Me: It’s to let people know they are Christians because if we judged them on their words and deeds we would never know they are. They simply ignore James 2:14-26.

[jakelafort]

Strega spoke.

Rum n coke.

Oh snap. She wants a rap.

Beek bop boo. Beek bok sou. Neither chimanzee nor Jew. Unfiltered parley emboldened to play…this is hardball they’re here to slay yet in person Walter Mitty is on delay. Won’t admonish to array knowing your parlance is on display preserved in a block universe its here to stay. Moderators may appear loathe to employ their gardening sheers. Their opprobrium disappears when the speakers change their gears.

[Strega]

Thanks Reg!!

And thank you very much, Jake!!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

What’s with the concern trolling of Christians? If Christians get their own doctrines wrong, don’t get in their way in making a mistake.

Then, if you can, step in to fill the void. Preferably, including a job or a want ad for one.

Now, as for why MAGA people wear Crucifixes, it could be because they’re fans of Michael “Soy-Faced” Knowles 👦🏻, or it could be to repel Trump’s latest attempt to bleed them dry.🧛🏼

• This reply was modified 4 days, 7 hours ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Me troll Christians?? Never! I am only gently admonishing them with my wise words.

“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly, as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom.”  Colossians 3:16

Yes, the MAGA magic cross is only a vein attempt to stop Trump bleeding them dry 🙂 Knowles can choke on his Cheerios too.

Of course for any deep and meaningful bible debates I ask them the serious questions 🙂

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Me troll Christians?? Never! I am only gently admonishing them with my wise words.

“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly, as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom.” Colossians 3:16

So you’re fighting Christianity by becoming one? I’m perplexed and not even Maimonides could be a guide on this one.

Of course for any deep and meaningful bible debates I ask them the serious questions 🙂

Dr Laura? I’m surprised she is a thing with anybody anymore. After all, she’s not mentioned by anyone in MAGA or any of the factions of Podcast-istan. As far as I’m concerned, taking on Dr. Laura is the equivalent of fighting the last war.

By the way, why doesn’t the owner of this Forum ever participate? Inquiring minds want to know…

• This reply was modified 3 days, 16 hours ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

World of Woo: Netflix and The Plastic Detox.

Glad you posted this. It fits in nicely with my earlier post on the problem of even accurately detecting microplastics and thus determining how much, if any, is toxic.

So far, the biggest dangers posed by plastic are from standing water in containers, sharp edges on hard plastics, and trip hazards on the beach. All decidedly macro, not micro or nano. Nothing that can’t be solved with sanitation crews and laws against littering.

Scares like this were like the scares from the Seventies and early Eighties about everything causing cancer, not just asbestos and tobacco, even though humans would have to drink gallons of diet soda over the course of years to match the equivalent amount of saccarine the lab rats got. This hysteria actually helped create the disdain and distrust of science we see today.

The Plastic Detox joins Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse as reasons not to subscribe to Netflix.

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

As much as I’ll be glad when Trump is out of the White House, I’ll be so sad if this is what gets him thrown out:

Trump gets warning huge MAGA exodus was triggered by Jesus meme: ‘Watch the numbers’
By Tom Boggioni
April 13, 2026 7:48AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pope-jesus/

Let that sink in:

Christians in the U.S. are willing to let their President:

take their economy to Hell;
alienate former allies while hob-nobbing with dictators Putin, Xi, Kim, and the shaky Sheikhs of the Gulf States;
attempt to conquer Greenland and Venezuela while waging a half-ass war on the Mullahs of Iran, waste time, treasure, and respect of the world with vanity projects and participation trophies;

But the thing that gets them riled at their President is when he blasphemes their other Man-God!

[jakelafort]

Hate to post anything on topic
but if ya ain’t listened maybe ya ought’er.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

We’re all on the same topic. The same God William Lane Craig is trying to defend is the same God that Donald J. Trump thinks and portrays himself to be and the same God whose standards MAGA zombies use to judge Trump. And since God-guided MAGA is splitting up on Trump for various reasons, there is no God-guided consensus in MAGA.

Also, the same God is believed and embraced by Dr. Laura Schlessinger when she espouses “family values” to her callers which she didn’t herself practice.

Some God and some foundation for morality, huh?

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Betty Bowers, America’s Greatest Christian, evidently has a more wayward doppelgänger across the drink and down under:

The Bible And Other Fairy Tales/Linda Beatty
https://m.youtube.com/@TheBibleAndOtherFairyTales

[jakelafort]

Enco,

I wish Sam had done better against Craig. He outperformed Hitchens but i would have loved to have seen him debate my father. I am pretty sure he would have embarrassed Craig.

I hate to see guys like that sustained and credible in the eyes of academia. Same with the cant from the lefties. Debates could become features of the culture. Lets give that free marketplace a try.

I would hope a consensus might be generated that it is always the case that politics has to stay well clear of human rights and religion has to stay out of politics and government. Lefties have fucked over human rights to such an extent that it won’t be easy to undo their pernicious influence.

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