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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Trump calls for a “Christian Visibility Day” because they are difficult to spot.

In France three minors have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

What is the Comstock Act mentioned in SCOTUS abortion pill case?

Christianity in the UK in numbers.

A new law allowing religion into science classrooms is bad for everyone.

Bits of the body of the Christ were left strewn across a parking lot on Respawn Sunday.

Indiana appeals court upholds injunction on abortion ban, citing religious liberty.

This pastor’s wedding night “joke” epitomizes Christian sexism.

How Putin’s brutal ‘Christian’ Nationalism seduced the American Right.

World of Woo: What’s Trending in the World of Pseudoscience.

Environment: What countries have decarbonized the fastest?

History for Atheists looks to be an interesting site.

The solar eclipse tomorrow will bring weird sights, sounds and feelings. It will be the cosmic event of the century.  Of course, for some it could mean being raptured. I hope they are!

Daniel Kahneman changed how we think about human nature.

What is the three-body problem?

NASA engineers are optimistic they can fix Voyager 1 which is 15 billion miles away.

Long Reads:  The eclipse that ended a war and shook the gods forever.  The new science on near death experiences.  I ‘self-experimented’ to compare a vegan diet with eating meat – this is what I found out.  Progress, Rediscovered.

Sunday Book Club: Quanta and Fields, the biggest ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Video:  The Wisdom and Wonder of being uncertain. Biblical scholars CRUSH  Christian apologist on slavery in the Bible. 10 questions Atheists can’t answer…easily answered.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Have a great week everyone!

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

What is the Comstock Act mentioned in SCOTUS abortion pill case?

I first heard of The Comstock Act all of 42 years ago from a book called Freedom, Feminism, and The State edited by Wendy McElroy and published by The Cato institute–you know, those “relentless” Libertarians that some people can’t stand. 😁

Ever since and up to now, both The Cato Institute and myself have shouted to repeat The Comstock Act and also prescription laws that make contraceptives more expensive by requiring a Doctor’s visit.

And the shouting was all in vain. Evidently, both the Religious Right and Statist Radical Feminists both want to keep women in a perpetual victim status, otherwise The Comstock Act and prescription laws would have been repealed long ago.

And now that Roe is no mo’, Congress will probably augment The Comstock Act with new restrictions on abortion and contraception information applied to The Information Age and will give new funding for extra overtime work for the Jackbooted Thugs in The Drug Enforcement Administration, The Department of Homeland Security, and any future Mary Poppins Ministry of Truth, so they can all keep and expand their phoney-baloney jobs!

Never say that we weren’t warned.

[UnseenParticipant]

Regarding the apparently religion-based inside baseball attack on a Muslim girl who maybe didn’t wear her head scarf correctly or at all, let’s not forget that we have equally unhinged Christian shariaists who want everything run according to their interpretation of Christian precepts and who think that if they do something terrible (like forcing a 13 y/o incestuous rape victim to bear a child), it’s just what their God wants them to do.

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!

We are thinking about joining a group that plans to inflate sex dolls with helium and send them up during the eclipse so that everyone thinks the rapture has begun and that they were being left behind.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I will be placing old jeans and shirts in the local park to show that everyone meets their God naked.

I am sure the sex dolls will find the rapture an uplifting experience and the Christians will reach the Pearls Gates, not just naked, but many of them will have a high pitch squeaky helium voice too.  Please St. Peter, I thought the dolls were angels!

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

....let’s not forget that we have equally unhinged Christian shariaists who want everything run according to their interpretation of Christian precepts…

I am on the case Unseen. I won’t let anyone forget 🙂

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Some interesting points about the Comstock Act. (2 minute video)

[UnseenParticipant]

I’d like to ask these LGBTQ hating Christians “What evidence do you have that Jesus was heterosexual?”

[unapologeticParticipant]

Bits of the body of the Christ were left strewn across a parking lot on Respawn Sunday

Why was this ‘crime’ reported to the National Park Service?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by  unapologetic.

[unapologeticParticipant]

The ‘History for Atheists’ reminds me why I hate blogs.
Too much ‘he said/she said’ blah, blah, blah.
The site is 50% history, but 50% rant against anti-theists.
I AM anti-theist. Don’t bitch at me, just tell me the true history.
Give me the facts without YOUR bias, and I can stop making the mistakes you cite. (But I’ll still be anti-theist.)

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Strega,

The blow-up dolls with Helium are the best choice. Sexbots are so heavy they would require a circus cannon and it would be quite anticlimactic when they come down. 😁

I’m celebrating the eclipse by searching the streaming services to see if I can find any versions of Mark Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

There are probably many places in the world where that escape trick might work. It would be super if it could work for the hostages in Gaza and Afghanistan, as well as peaceful people held against their will by superstitious captors everywhere.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by  TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum

[StregaModerator]

As we brace ourselves for the viewing invasion, I recall the Connecticut Yankee very well 🙂

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg and Jake,

History for Atheists starts out with four Fallacies.

It argues against the notion that Jesus Christ never existed on the grounds that the overwhelming majority of Biblical scholars believed that Jesus Christ existed and that those who say he never existed are a fringe few.

So that’s an Argument from Popularity, Argument from Authority, Argument from Incredulity, and Name-Calling all in one, a Jackpot of Fallacies, and not even a percentage to show for it!

I am all for going where the evidence leads and I knew that many ancient peoples knew the Earth was round, but History For Atheists doesn’t look promising on this front. It looks like another Ayaan Hirsi Ali schmoozing up to the Christian Right crowd.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by  TheEncogitationer. Reason: Unnecessary letter

[_Robert_Participant]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Reg and Jake, History for Atheists starts out with four Fallacies. It argues against the notion that Jesus Christ never existed on the grounds that the overwhelming majority of Biblical scholars believed that Jesus Christ existed and that those who say he never existed are a fringe few. So that’s an Argument from Popularity, Argument from Authority, Argument from Incredulity, and Name-Calling all in one, a Jackpot of Fallacies, and not even a percentage to show for it! I am all for going where the evidence leads and I knew that many ancient peoples knew the Earth was round, but History For Atheists doesn’t look promising on this front. It looks like another Ayaan Hirsi Ali schmoozing up to the Christian Right crowd.

I agree. The first writings that place Jeebus on Earth are dated after the cohort generation are all dead and gone. And Jesus checks so many boxes typical of mythical gods. I smell a rat or two.

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