Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Atheists applaud the Biden Administration for restoring critical religious equality protections.

The FFRF rallies opposition to political participation in the National Prayer Breakfast.

Germany is one of the least religious countries in the world.

I don’t care to insult the dead prophet but his extremist followers are an insult to me.

George Pell: what the five-year royal commission into child sexual abuse found.

Ron DeSanctimonious and his “War on Woke” in higher education continues. I wonder if he will be sprayed with confetti if he goes to Fort Lauderdale in April?

Missouri’s abortion ban declares ‘Almighty God is the author of life’.

Atheist group demands sheriff stop promoting jail baptisms.

World of Woo:  Cooking with Gas.

Environment:  Climate Trauma is not exactly PTSD. It’s a new kind of trauma.

A key part of the Big Bang Theory remains elusive to us.

Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research.

Visibility of stars in the night sky declines faster than previously thought.

Science won’t ever make philosophy or religion obsolete.

Long Reads: An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom? There are no seats for passive auditors in this Professor’s final class on philosophy. A new Supreme Court case could turn every workplace into a religious battleground. There is no Planet B. AI is here: Are we finally ready to rethink the value of being human?

Sunday Book Club: Awe: The new Science of Everyday Wonder and how it can transform your Life.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Video:  What lies beyond the Solar System? Blue Marble now, 50 years on. What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe. Poetry at the Earth’s poles.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Have a great week everyone!

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!!

[_Robert_Participant]

This futuristic dream-like scenario is being sold to us as a real scientific possibility, with billionaires planning to move humanity to Mars in the near future.

Escape the big mess here and instead “terraform” a planet with a no-pressure, CO2 atmosphere, particle rays and -200 deg F weather. Great idea.  I agree with the author. There is no planet B in our near future.

[_Robert_Participant]

At least 20 people were shot, 10 fatally, near a Lunar New Year celebration in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded dance studio, authorities said.

Ah, hoo-hum,  just another day in the United States of Guns and Idiots.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

Another thought-churning Sunday School indeed.

Atheists applaud the Biden Administration for restoring critical religious equality protections.

While it is all well and good that religious indoctrination shouldn’t come with government-subsidized religious social programs, the bigger issue is why government even subsidizes religious social programs at all a.k.a. The Little Bush Boy’s “Faith-Based Initiatives.”

That is something American Atheists really needs to double down on fighting because “Faith-Based Initiatives” have been around for now on 4 Administrations.

Americans in general regardless of creed or party also need to do more to make living dissolute lives on the street very difficult.

No sermons in the soup kitchen, but also insist on no littering, drinking, drugging, and WorldStar drama in the facilities. Also, every able body in a shelter needs to be up-and-at-’em after breakfast trying to find work, find other shelter, find career training, find treatment, and find something productive and purposeful in life.

Politicians, lobbyists, and NIMBY-ists also need to get out of the way of people lifting themselves out of poverty. No more zoning against tiny houses and multi-family units, no more medallion requirements for Über-driving or license requirements for hair-braiding, no more capital gains taxes on investers in job-creating producers of inexpensive goods and services.

Being self-reliant in thought needs to include self-reliance in deed as well.

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