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Sunday School December 1st 2024

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    The religious makeup of Trump’s proposed administration.

    Texas school districts may accept $60 for every child they indoctrinate. They may also force children to swallow stale morality tablets and endure school sponsored Bible readings.

    Pete Hegseth plans to create a Christian Nationalist ‘Educational Insurgency’.

    Why efforts to break down the separation of Church and State in schools could backfire.

    Women’s suffrage is probably on the agenda and even ungodly women could lose their right to vote.

    Oklahoma Republicans are flipping out over a Pagan invocation in Tulsa.

    Nobody expects the Great Awakening!

    The UK Government needs to protect freedom of speech by rejecting calls to reintroduce blasphemy laws.

    Leo Igwe, the man battling Nigeria’s ‘witch-hunters’.

    World of Woo: Everything you ever wanted to know about astrology.

    Environment: Nuclear Energy prevents air pollution and saves lives.

    One more reason drinking raw milk is a bad idea.

    We remain attached to our beliefs as long as we deem them to be of value.

    The 12 freest countries in the world.

    MIT engineers achieve solar power breakthrough with a desalination water system.

    UK lawmakers vote in support of assisted dying. It is a debate worth having.

    Long Reads: Why identity, morality and faith splinter in the multiverse. Madeleine Riffaud, the woman who couldn’t forget.

    Sunday Book Club: Into the unknown. The quest to understand the Cosmos. (with a video).

    Some photographs taken last week.

    While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

    Coffee Break Videos: Five things Christian Nationalists want for the Trump Presidency. How the Republican political ecosystem took over America’s courts. The current state of Atheism and Separation of Church and State. The Slimy Tricks of Christian “Experts“.

     

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    Have a great week!!

    The only thing consistent about your god in my life is his complete absence.

    – Reg.

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    Strega
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    Thanks, Reg!

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    Belle Rose
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    The religious makeup of Trump’s proposed administration.

    I personally found it a bit hysterical that that article was citing “Deseret News” as a “source” 😂 😂 imagine the irony of Trumps BS being somehow spotlighted by the Mormons 😂 😂 😂

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    Yes, Belle Rose. So many Catholics….what could go wrong?? Why do they always close their eyes when they pray to the Creator of the Universe? It seems to put a strain on their faces too…..but that could be caused by the cognitive dissonance of it all.

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    Belle Rose
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    The Catholics and the Mormons pray just as strenuously, and argue over who’s god and church is true….I don’t know who’s cognitive dissonance is stronger……

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    PopeBeanie
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    Throw in the other religions too, every which one defining God, Allah, and so on in their own way, usually dictated by traditionally purported authorities. The sureness they have seems particularly dangerous to me, e.g. with upsurgence of Christian Nationalism. I don’t think I ever really knew what populism was until the past few years, much less how it could so easily lead to an authoritarianist movement.

    Authoritarianism and theocracy often sleep in the same bed. Hey MAGA, just look at countries with those kinds of power marriages around the world to get some idea of what we could become.

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    PopeBeanie
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    I looked for more detail on the “breakthrough with desalinization article”. The source is https://news.mit.edu/2024/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteries-1008 .

    The gist of it can be summarized as a much more efficient method of desalinization through “flexible batch electrodialysis”, with “flexible” meaning that the process can keep filtering brackish water efficiently even when the sun dims… it just produces less fresh water, and ramps up again quickly when the sun comes back. It also lessens the need to have backup batteries.

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    jakelafort
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    Cows came back to attack the ones who drained their udders. Cows declared there and then, “hey my teats ain’t rudders!”

    Woke is an obnoxious handle. Reminds me of the chosen people.
    Make America Rip Van Winkle again.

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