Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Faith healer sentenced for sex assault told to stop ‘curing’ people in person.

School reopening brings more vaccine confusion.

The Ten Commandments and a government without a “secular purpose”.

It’s time for South Carolina to repeal its blasphemy law.

Federal employees should never have to choose between their faith and their career.

In India, former Supreme Court justices defend secularism as foundational to the Constitution amid political calls to dilute it.

I hope Donald Trump goes to Catholic heaven and everyone talks like this theological bullshitter for eternity.  OK, maybe I am being too cruel!

Mormon women stand shoulder to shoulder under the scorching sun.

Alina Habba says judges ‘Should just be doing their job: Respecting the President’.

James Dobson’s harsh, disciplinarian Christianity changed GOP politics.

World of Woo: RFK Jr.’s conspiracies make it into MAHA draft report.

Environment:  Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them.

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read.

Can people thrive in a secular society?

Hate Crime data since the increased normalization of bigotry and extremism.

UN says Taliban are close to ‘Erasing’ Afghan women from public life. Are Christian nationalists aiming for the same result?

Bill Nye on standing up for Science.

Long Reads:

The Bolton raid is a reminder that we are not prepared for Fascism.

The stars made our minds, and now our minds look back. Nothing supernatural about that and Dan Dennett would agree.

Science Is Not “Truth” but can it be “Holy Shit” still?

Life on Earth emerged quickly.

Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs ICE raids.

Sunday Book Club: Imperfection: A Natural History. Why human irrationality is evolutionary and not accidental.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:  Why Atheism is rising globally. Why Quillette is against Palestinian Statehood. Who speaks for America Now?

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Have a great week Everyone!

“My morality isn’t borrowed from a Bronze Age tribe—it’s built on empathy, not authority. Morality needs neither heaven nor hell to function—just a working conscience and the ability to think beyond yourself. I sleep just fine knowing there’s no one keeping score.”

– me

[Strega]

Thanks, Reg!!

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

World of Woo: RFK Jr.’s conspiracies make it into MAHA draft report.

I’m actually glad that RFK Jr.’s report didn’t say anything about food eyes that would probably require gallons drank over long periods of time to have any I’ll effect, as with flouride and artificial sweetners.

And I’m glad the report didn’t regard guns and motor vehicle accidents as health problems of children. These are problems created by violent criminals and shitty parents combined with inanimate objects.

And I’m glad the report didn’t mention processed vs. ultra-processed foods,since everything about food is a process from the raising of of it, to hunting or foraging or fishing of it, to harvesting and butchering, to preparing it for market, to transporting it, to preserving and storing it, to preparing and cooking it, to the digesting of of it.

And the distinction between processed and ultra-processed foods is about like the distinction between prayer and intercessory prayer: One involves more steps and the odds of helping or hurting is always 50/50, always the same as placebo, as the commercials say. Well, actually, the food, properly eaten, helps more than prayer, no matter how processed.

Adding nonsense about food dyes, processed vs. ultra-processed foods and non-health problems would just compound the nonsense that already exists in the report, which is legion.

RFK Jr. says that 5G causes “cancer, autism, a variety of mental and cognitive problems, post-traumatic stress, fatigue, and Type 2 diabetes”. …

And he does all this on a podcast in a studio filled with electronic equipment that produces all manner of electromagnetic radiation, interviewing with Joe Rogan, an advocate of using psychedelic drugs.

And RFK Jr. proposed using new AI technologies at the National Institutes of Health, which also uses electromagnetic radiation and still need tweaking to draw human hands right.

The Law of Non-Contradiction and self-awareness are just not RFK Jr.’s strong suits.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Science Is Not “Truth” but can it be “Holy Shit” still?

Jim Horgan forgets that it is precisely the “impure” practical uses of “pure” science that makes it “Holy Shit” science. We need more science channelled toward “Holy Shit” purposes like healing diabetic foot wounds with the speed of Dr. “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek.

And the people who stand to gain from such practical uses can foot the bill for science even if Trump cuts Federal funding. The best thing the Federal Government could do for science and the economy and a lot else is to restore the Gold Standard for money. That way, Dollars that investors spend on science and it’s applications can go further and have more purchasing power.

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[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Middle East Forum has revealed that it isn’t just USAID that is funding our enemies, but even Homeland Security in multiple Administrations, Obama, Trump 45, and Biden. Talk about mission creep!

DHS yanks funding from groups with ‘alleged terrorist ties,’ vows more vigorous vetting

DHS yanks funding from groups with ‘alleged terrorist ties,’ vows more vigorous vetting

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

CDC in Atlanta after firing of Susan Monarez.

 

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Saudi Arabia launches chatbot with Islamic moral code
Humain Chat will eventually be available to Arabic speakers and Muslims worldwide, say its developers, who are backed by the sovereign wealth fund
https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/humain-saudi-arabia-islam-chatbot-cncsh8z85

Maybe Humain and Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir will get in a Jihad/Crusade and shut each other down and leave the rest of us alone

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