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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

A conservative issues a warning about the impact of Christian Nationalism. We will need to keep an eye on these hideous Christians. We must protect the separation of church and state to halt Christian theocracy. See also first video below.

Connecticut lawmakers decide the Bible was wrong and apologize for mass murder.

Illinois report details scale of Catholic clergy sex abuse.

Adults in Mississippi are no longer forced to promote religion in public.

Hold the Church of England to account for abuse – separate it from the state.

Lying to children – Christian curriculum using textbooks that deny climate change and say evolution is impossible.

Religious freedom was meant to protect not bludgeon. What happened?

World of Woo: The great ‘one meal a day’ myth.

Environment: The fairy tales of the fossil fuel industry — and a better climate story.

The myth of the reptilian brain is tenacious – but wrong.

Scientists monitored the brains of 4 dying patients. Here’s what they found.

A better understanding of propaganda could advance the world in a positive way.

Syrian girls play soccer among ghosts of Islamic State.

Astronomical hoaxes throughout the ages.

Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa.

The Placebo Effect.

Long Reads: The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all. Gender inequality: Why Women? AI and the end of reason.  Where do our minds go when we are under anaesthesia?

Sunday Book Club: Knowing what we know. How we transfer knowledge over time.

Some photographs taken last week.  Some AI generated songs recently recorded.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Video:  Religion is a delusion that can eventually lead to insanity. This guy is a perfect example of a why Christian Nationalists cannot be allowed political power. If you can’t endure too much of it then start here and watch 10 minutes or so.  But you should know your enemy. And yes, he is a Christian Nationalist.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Have a great week everyone!

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

Speaking of astronomical hoaxes, I noticed from archives from 1938 newspapers that apparently no one in my locality in NC reacted hysterically to Orson Welles notorious broadcast. For that matter, there was no advertisement for the broadcast as far as I could see.

We do have a station in my area WBT 1110 AM who famously advertised that they are heard at night “From Canada To Cuba”. I have never heard whether they aired the broadcast.

One thing’s for sure, the “national” panic was by no means that widespread.

“Planet X” Nibiru, however, was one of the bugaboos propagated on Shortwave in the early 2000s by the self-proclaimed “Last Day Prophet of God” and convicted child molester Brother R.G. Stair in Walterboro, SC.

I thought: “So what if “Planet X” is coming? That means we’ll never have a shortage of Illudium Fosdex, the shaving cream atom! And so easy to find too!” 😁

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