Atheism, n. The refusal to surrender one’s sense of humor to an imaginary audience.

Canada’s religious revival that never came to be. The study shows that cultural religious identity can persist long after active religious participation declines.

Does secularization represent increasing rationality, or can it simply involve replacing…[Read more]

IMO Marc Elias has done more, in every state’s court, to fight and debunk Trump’s…[Read more]

Philosophy is an inte…[Read more]

Should public funding be available for religious instruction, and…[Read more]

I can confirm that AronRa is “woke” in t…[Read more]

“Just because I might post an interesting article does not mean I agree with it. Which side would you like me to argue from?”

“None” is not synonymous with atheist. Combining atheists, agnostics and people who simply don’t belong to a religion can obscure considerably more than it reveals. The dataset has been made publicly available, so I expect some interesting papers to emerge from this.

The Dep…[Read more]

AI is already able to design human gene-editing processes, with abilities to edit any other species on the way, including pandemic-enhanced…[Read more]

But he kept “rigged elections” as a theme, created several…[Read more]

No argument with that Jake.

When it comes to tautologies, either I’m being pedantic, or I’m not being ped…[Read more]

Trump’s “Top 250 Victories for People of Faith” collapse under scrutiny.

Oklahoma must allow taxpayer-funded religious charter school, judge rules.

Spain: Atheists now outnumber practicing Catholics, but the culturally Catholic label will persist considerably longer than…[Read more]

A most excellent cinquain!

Yes, Doron is the real deal. He lives the role. He is a very believable character both as an ‘ordinary Israeli family man’ and even more so as a fluent Arabic speaking Muslim ‘spy’.

I would consider the series in the same league as ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Homeland’. I was surprised to read it is No 1 on Netflix in Lebanon.

I have been interacting with ‘Hamas’ supporters for over 20 years. I will aver that in that time the have become ‘stupider more’. They are now so uninformed (or maybe ‘ill-informed’ is a better term) that they are a different species to…[Read more]

How to Address Vaccine Hesitancy: A Compassionate Approach

https://gillings-projects.unc.edu/cph-articles/how-do-i-talk-about-vaccines

Secularism protects everybody from somebody else’s certainty. RTFF

A state power capable of declaring one variety of Muslim illegitimate is precisely the power capable of criminalizing the person who concludes that none of them is true. This is what happens everywhere when people who fervently believe a God exists acquire governmental machinery with which to enf…[Read more]

Lean: “I spent 14 seconds.”

Human: “Yes, Lean is correct.”

For me, the remarkable part is not the solution, but the ability of how 10,000 concurrent AI agents were split into groups, each exploring different variants and approaches and then sharing everything. Basically, the AI agents cross checked each others findings. I suspect their…[Read more]

I’ve been mad for fucking years, absolutely years
Been over the edge for yonks
Been working with bands so long, I think crikey
I’ve always been mad
I know I’ve been mad like the most of us have
Very hard to explain why you’re mad
Even if you’re not mad………

Don’t let Waylon Jennings a…[Read more]

My latest sign of growing old is when my cellphone notifies me that my “face is not recognized” and I find myself in agreement with it 🙂