Sunday School

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

The United States is still a Secular Nation — American Atheists intends to keep it that way.

Exvangelicals, nones, secular Americans are under tapped in the fight against Christian nationalism.

What is Project2025?  J.D. Vance is no Mini-Me. He is more dangerous than Trump and those who implement his policies will consist of the worst people you can think of, like maybe Mike Davis as attorney general in January. What about Justice Ho and Justice Oldham for SCOTUS or an ultra Christian Nationalist as Secretary for Education who will replace teachers with preachers?

Post-Modern politics has dinned into us the concept of the ‘lesser evil’ but this too shall pass. What would Barry Goldwater feel about this election result?

World of Woo:  Some data on Fluoride.

Environment: Cop29: World leaders must be held to account with scientific evidence.

Natural disasters can trigger a rise in paranormal beliefs.

Does religious belief make people more anxious and fearful?

Will South Africa become first country to accept controversial form of heritable human genome editing?

The author of this article on faith is stuck at the point of not realizing that “Oh wait, God does not exist!”.

What makes human culture unique?

Samuel Paty was 47 when beheaded on the street outside his school in 2020.

Long Reads: A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI is a recipe for disaster. Why leaders in science must rediscover that science serves everyone. Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors

Sunday Book Club:  Autocracy, Inc. The Dictators who want to run the World.

Some photographs taken last week.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Podcast: COP29: Are climate summits working?

Coffee Break Videos:  Trying Times with Aron Ra. The Strange Physics Principle that shapes Reality. Jack Szostak: The Origin of Life: Not as hard as it looks?

 

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Faith discredits itself by proving to be insufficient to satisfy the faithful.

-Hitchens.

I was going to ignore politics this week, just to give everyone a break, but I could not overlook the dangers posed by Christian Nationalist who have no empathy or love for their neighbors and whose messaging is all about Empire building without any Republican values.

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!

[_Robert_Participant]

I agree that natural disasters can trigger a rise in paranormal beliefs. I saw it happen when we had Hurricane Andrew down in South Florida.

Everyone had a miracle story. I opened the inside garage door just as parts of the roof flew away. Coconuts were pelting the side of the house. We stayed in the bathtub with blankets on our heads. The thing that bothered me most is people were thanking god for saving them.

What does that say about those who were injured or killed? God just said “Fuck You” to them. How stupid to think there’s some (evil?) power literally controlling the tiny details as a storm rolls through. This dog is finished, this old lady in the third house…fuck her, let’s put this boat through that living room.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

FFRF salutes “atheists in foxholes” on Veterans Day.

[_Robert_Participant]

I have been an atheist on an operating table lately. Twice in as many years. No panicked, last-minute praying from me.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

I bet prayer never even crossed your mind. I just trust the science. A friend of mine went in for a bypass recently. I went with him to the hospital and when he was going for the surgery, I asked him if he wanted me to wait. He said to call back tomorrow and his wife would update me after the op. She suggested I go home and sacrifice a goat or a few chickens for a successful outcome. We laughed at that but the nurse was not impressed as she was very religious. Just in case,  I had a chicken tikka and the operation was a complete success.

[_Robert_Participant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I bet prayer never even crossed your mind. I just trust the science. A friend of mine went in for a bypass recently. I went with him to the hospital and when he was going for the surgery, I asked him if he wanted me to wait. He said to call back tomorrow and his wife would update me after the op. She suggested I go home and sacrifice a goat or a few chickens for a successful outcome. We laughed at that but the nurse was not impressed as she was very religious. Just in case, I had a chicken tikka and the operation was a complete success.

LOL. I went to a restaurant and asked about how they prepare the chicken. The waiter said, “we just straight-up tell them they are gonna die”.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Lapsed Christians are so pathetic. How do you do that?

I have found Gsauce at the moment of truth.

I had an acquaintance with a bum ticker congenital style and only in 30s. Told me he had to have his pacemaker replaced and that he had a 1 in a hundred of croaking during procedure. He was that one.

[UnseenParticipant]

If I’m lying in a bed knowing that my time is near, I’ll gather my believer relatives together and tell them that I don’t believe in God, but if it turns out I’m wrong, my spirit will show up one day while they’re taking a shower and when they come out they’ll find their toothbrush in the toilet.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Trump will nominate Mike Huckabee to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel….!!!

 

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

My family and friends all know I am an atheist. Hey Alexa, Play my Croaking songs……at volume 11.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Hucklbuck will likely support annexation of the west bank. I have no idea what should be done there. It is a tinder box. Withdrawal from Gaza resulted in the present fiasco. I assume withdrawal from West Bank would cause a similar predicament. But allowing more settlers means more and more violence.

One thing is clear to me. Pacifism on part of Israel is tantamount to death. As i have maintained all along there is a mind virus borne of Islam and middle eastern culture supplemented by nazi/soviet/far left propaganda that makes peace impossible. The textbooks all over middle east are filled with virulent antisemitism and they promote the goal of sacrificing Palestinians and killing Jews. As Golda said, “if the Palestinians lay down their weapons, there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there will be a massacre.” She also had this chestnut. “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” None of the BS is really about getting the Palestinians a homeland or putative provocation on part of Israel.

The death cult with its apotheosis of murdering Jews and denying a Jewish state is THE OBSTACLE to peace. It is literally everywhere in that region. And the credo of Jew hate as aformentioned is maintained by every stinking state in the region. As soon as Israel attacked Egypt (which had been allied with Israel in fighting Hamas) denied the reality and persecuted any Egyptians who told the truth. It was same everywhere. The mosques and schools deny there was even a Jewish state known as Israel or that Jews were the indigenous people of that region. It is zero surprise that the surrounding nations have offered no succor for innocent Palestinians as Gaza gets blitzkrieged. They simply do not value human life…least of all Palestinians. The way Palestinians are treated in Arab nations is a disgrace and a humanitarian mungawopee.

Nobody seems to give a rat’s patottle about Palestinians. All of the support for the ‘resistance’and the inviolability of Islam as an idea through the imposition of Islamophobia as a valid concept insures the continuation of cycles of violence.

One good thing about Trump is that he is promising to fight antisemitism. He also appointed a pro Israel ambassador to UN. Promises to stop funding universities and undo accreditation if they continue in their ways. Hopefully US and Israel will attack Iran and end their threat of nuclear annihilation. It is absolutely untenable and they are supposed to be close to ready. Apparently they are quite vulnerable right now as a result of the Israeli attack against them. Many Iranians are jonesing for a chance to overthrow that evil regime and from what i have read are not as antisemitic as Arabs. No reason an alliance could not be created post overthrow.

I am reading every day about new antisemitic attacks and many with violence. It is getting worse and worse for Jews. Oh wait we hate the zionist entity but not Jews! HAHA. How anomalous the collective Jew who has zero connection to Israel is the target of your violence/intimidation/discrimination.

Israel needs its own Ken Burns to do an extensive Vietnam or Civil War USA type documentary that gives the actual history and discredits the lies of the left. Further it must give proof of how Palestinians suffer actual apartheid in neighboring Arab Muslim states. Additionally i want to see universities host debates between Israeli apologists and Jew hating lefties. Real shit. Show those college morons that they can’t think their way out of a torn paper bag. The left has done a fine job of advancing antisemitism. It is all over the globe. Oh i ran across this recently.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-827670

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Yes, Huckabee will be pro-Israel and will be very anti-Hamas. But he has very little diplomatic experience and could even be the first non-Jewish ambassador to Israel. But maybe that will prove to be a good thing in the long run.

[UnseenParticipant]

I think we should never forget that America’s favoritism for Israel has nothing to do with loving the Jews. It’s all about maintaining a patch of land with the name “Israel” for when Jesus returns to take names and kick ass.

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