Religious freedom protects people’s right to practice religion but not entitle them to restrict other people’s freedoms. There is also a distinction between the religious beliefs of soldiers and presenting a particular religion as part of the military’s institutional identity.
Should public funding be available for religious instruction, and how should the state distinguish education from religious formation? How can a government claim religious neutrality while displaying one religion’s commandments as a state-sanctioned monument?
SCOTUS to test boundaries of LGBTQ rights and religious freedom.
Battle Ground, WA’s Christian-backed invocation policy backfired when a member of The Satanic Temple claimed the first available slot. A government prayer policy that accommodates the majority’s religion must also confront the question of equal treatment for minority beliefs and non-belief.
World of Woo: How pseudoscience is duping football.
Environment: CNN’s scary plastics report should be tossed into the recycling bin.
When does enforcing immigration law become the criminalization of humanitarian assistance?
Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table.
A discussion on how artificial intelligence can improve human judgment, reduce suffering, and advance humanist ethics? Will artificial intelligence change how philosophy is conducted? I think the problem Mathematicians now face is that AI can transport them directly to the summit without getting to appreciate the climb anymore. But what happens to math when the Universe becomes the Calculator? Do we dare disturb that Universe?
Perhaps the next scientific revolution won’t begin with a new observation, but with a new understanding of observations we’ve already made.
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US. The last sentence is a stunning scientific discovery!! Letitia James is suing RFK over vaccine rollbacks while he is very busy getting more corrupt and dangerous.
Our Stone Age brains have evolved since the Neolithic began.
Can picking up a book really improve your brain?
Sunday Book Club: The Honesty Crisis. (See also first video).
Some photographs taken last month.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil.
Coffee Break Videos: Why be honest when cheating pays? One of the biggest red flags in atheist conversations. The United States is Not a Christian Nation. Public Executions….so it’s come to this. Sorry, but I just had to post this.
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