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[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Here are the openly non-religious candidates for state/federal office in 2024.

The religious composition of the world’s migrants.

Project 2025’s abortion police proposal – in their own words.

Ex-religious people explain why they left their faith while women are fleeing from the pews.

Does secularism have room for elements of human life traditionally associated with God? (not really what secularism is about, is it)?

Florida district rejects school chaplains (for now) after Satanists pledge to participate.

The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism.

World of Woo: A new paper that looks at homeopathy in pharmacy education raises more questions than answers.

Environment:  People don’t need “climate emergency” or “global boiling” to make them worried. They’re already worried.

The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints. Now it’s just darkness, godless and not much more.

A new species found in a toxic lake could hold clues to the origins of life. But I suspect the first cells arose in water because my brain is bigger than that of my cousin.

Matching dinosaur footprints found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

How much science should there be in philosophy?

Long Reads: How to make millions as a professional whistleblower. The maverick archaeologist of the Americas. Folklore is philosophy. Gavin Newsom could decide the future of AI safety .

Sunday Book Club:  Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.

Some photographs taken last week.  Some photos of atoms! Photographing one of the most remote places on Earth.

While you are waiting for the kettle to boil……

Coffee Break Videos:  Playing God: An Evolutionary history of World Religion. Ten minutes of religion being torn apart by philosopher Peter Singer.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Have a great week!

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

–Jidda Krishnamurti

[StregaModerator]

Thanks, Reg!

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Thanks Strega, have a colorful day 🙂

[unapologeticParticipant]

The list of non-religious candidates is just a list of members of the congressional ‘Freethought cacus’. It’s disapointing, has only one humanist and NO open atheists.
Still, they are all Democrats, NO Republicans. So I guess that’s good enough, for now.

The house is a little more promising with 7 open non-religious Democrats running against incumbent Republicans. But they ain’t from PA, so I can’t vote for them.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.”

🙂

[_Robert_Participant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

In The Washington Post, Amanda Katz noted that Kennedy had terminated his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, “ending a dilemma for voters torn between their love of deportation camps and their love of measles.” 🙂

That guy is a conspiracy genius.  Listening to him talk is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Trashes the family name in an effort to ride Trump’s coattails. Sad worm-brain. I need to be vaccinated against whatever he’s got.

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Well, at least we now might know where he got his brain worm from. And to think I ran close to it on a 5K run!

Strega gets her fingerprints sent to space forever and I could be spending my days on the look out for pic-a-nic baskets 🙂

[_Robert_Participant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Well, at least we now might know where he got his brain worm from. And to think I ran close to it on a 5K run! Strega gets her fingerprints sent to space forever and I could be spending my days on the look out for pic-a-nic baskets 🙂

Yep, he was always fuckin’ nuts. That poor worm didn’t get much to eat.

[_Robert_Participant]

And I love when the Satanists spoil the plans of Fl governor Ron dirty-Sanchez’s minions.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

The Problem Is Islam—Not Islamism

I have to assume that the author, Obaid Omer, knows his stuff because he grew up in a Muslim family and culture.

Yes, to an atheist, Islam seems extreme, unbending and oppressive.  It’s also been hijacked by patriarchy.  But I disagree with what a commenter said – that it’s incompatible with Western countries.  That’s just sour-grapes racism in my opinion.  If it stays within the law, it’s compatible.  We could equally say that Christianity is becoming incompatible with the law.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

How much science should there be in philosophy?

Our understanding of the world around us (whether through metaphysics or other means) cannot go against our best scientific knowledge.  Not only that, the right way of doing metaphysics requires a close investigation of science and its results.

I can’t disagree with that.  I think that philosophy, science and mathematics are all related: all searches for rational knowledge.

[jakelafortParticipant]

Simon, please don’t swallow the lefty koolaid. Islam is a gigantic and vile cult that dehumanizes and causes untold suffering. It is not something fundamentally ok that is highjacked by some baddies. Here i have linked a podcast series given by a lovely woman who grew up in Islam and is an apostate who escaped a marriage to an Muslim terrorist. She is extemely well informed what all the fuss is about in regards to Islam. If you think Islam is peaches and cream she will refer to you as a useful idiot.

[jakelafortParticipant]

The episode that i linked was not my intention. She interviews primarily Muslims/former Muslims from various nations that tell their story as it relates to Islam. The bigots are the ones who conjure narratives about good guys/bad guys based on their identity.

Allowing Islam to remain off limits to criticism is a deplorable and unforgivable cultural flaw…not some little fox pop. We need to play our part in weakening the virus. The left is empowering it…muthafuckas!

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Yes, to an atheist, Islam seems extreme, unbending and oppressive.  It’s also been hijacked by patriarchy.

At what time in its history was Islam not patriarchal?  If anyone would like to hear what women in Afghanistan think about it, you had better ask them very soon.

But I disagree with what a commenter said – that it’s incompatible with Western countries.

The push to have Sharia laws respected by non-Muslims in Western countries is well under way. The only people I can have a serious conversation about this with are the moderate Muslims or the ex-Muslims in my diverse circle of friends.

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