QAnon and Gnosticism
New stupidity based on old stupidity, QAnon is dumb. EXTENDED VERSION The Ancient Heresy That Helps Us Understand QAnon Skeptic magazine issue on QAnon
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How Many Atheists Are There?
Not that numbers matter, but its nice to see a rise in the number of people willing to claim they are atheists or non-theists. The decline in church attendance is also encouraging. How many atheists are there? Gallup poll on religion: here Pew on religion: here In 2013, the accuracy…
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
Hallelujah! What great news, but it isn’t necessarily new news as the death of gods and religion has been happening for decades, or centuries. Of course a long time ago religions did not exist at all, until one day someone decided they knew better, or in reality knew nothing at…
Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
worth a listen: SCIENCE SALON # 82– Michael Shermer with Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life Also see: A Pathway to Objective Morality Why the Case for Scientific Humanism is Rational
Religion’s Death Toll
James A. Haught [This article was first published in 1990. For that reason, neither the ongoing carnage in the middle east nor terrorist attacks in the past 25+ years are mentioned.] Ronald Reagan often called religion the world’s mightiest force for good, “the bedrock of moral order.” George Bush said…
Proof of…
While I like some of what Richard Carrier has written, I have to say I am a little disturbed by his attempts to use Bayes Theorem with history. R. Joseph Hoffmann has a nice synopsis of the issues with Carrier’s logic, or the lack of it, here.
New US Law to Protect Non-Theists
For the first time, atheists and other nonreligious persons are explicitly named as a class protected by the law. President Barack Obama has signed into law the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act. The new law protects atheists, humanists, and other freethinkers around the world from religious persecution. Congress passed the…
Religions Conflict
If you have come here for the religions conflict sticker you have come to the right place. Yes, the design is in in protest of the ubiquitous “coexist” iteration of various religious symbols. While we might be able to coexist, cults and religions come into being because they occupy…
What Was Adam’s IQ?
by Bernard Leikind Adam’s IQ was 1500! How do I know? I read it in a pamphlet I found at the Institute for Creation Science. Why does Adam’s IQ concern creationists? Because Adam named all of the animals. Leave aside the interesting question of how the duckbilled platypus got from…
The Hero Pattern
This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan First identified by Otto Rank in 1914 and elaborated by Lord Fitzroy Raglan in 1936. Otto Rank’s basic model for mythic heroes can be summarized is 6 steps: Prophecy surrounds birth Divine, aristocratic,…
