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In 2024, conservative Catholics, Fundamentalist Christians, and Evangelicals have amassed political power if not Defacto control over the Republican Party and Supreme Court in their acknowledged Crusade to Christianize America and eviscerate both the...
by Grandpa Fred
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 03:49 AM PDT
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As some may recall, I became a fundamentalist as an undergraduate. In 2005, as I began graduate school in mathematics I began to rethink my worldview. I saw my fundamentalism as inextricably tied to being a republican. So, when I began recognizing the...
by Dem
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on Thu Oct 26, 2023 at 11:09 AM PDT
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Yes, I said “war on reality.” It is a war on women, very much so. The attacks on women’s bodies, women’s rights, women’s lives, are all specifically aimed at women. I expect an effort to repeal the XIX Amendment giving women the right to vote (there’ve...
by Dan K
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 10:48 AM PDT
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If you are waking up every morning dreading turning on the news, if you can’t resist the sick temptation to click on whatever Mark Zuckerberg wants you to see on Facebook, if you wonder if your friends and neighbors have been mind-hacked or replaced by...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Aug 17, 2020 at 07:43 AM PDT
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Ever since I can remember, my fascination has been with the study of the social foundations of human intellectual life: namely, in antiquity, mythology, and the classical legends. Having completed my Master’s in Critical Comparative Scriptures at the...
by rahuputra1
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on Thu Jul 16, 2020 at 12:44 PM PDT
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High school test question: How old is the Utica shale formation that Ohio is drilling for oil and natural gas? Answer: 6,000 years, just like the Bible says. According to critics, HB 164, the Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act of 2019—which every...
by Meteor Blades
406 comments
on Fri Nov 15, 2019 at 10:45 AM PST
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Everyone who knows me knows that I have a long history with creation “scientists”. Creationism is a fundamentalist Christian political movement that asserts both the literal historical and ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Sep 25, 2019 at 12:41 PM PDT
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Lie-berries! The evil you find in them is after our childrens!
That is if you believe the creationist Ken Ham who is behind Kentucky’s Ark Encounter,
Why, you might ask?
In part because of teh gay.
If you like to read...
by BFSkinner
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on Thu Jun 27, 2019 at 03:50 PM PDT
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Why should I be surprised? After all, Kentucky is the home of the Creation Museum. As reported in Washington Post, the state is at the forefront of pushing Bible Studies in public schools.
The model for many of these states is Kentucky, where...
by DowneastDem
171 comments
on Thu May 09, 2019 at 07:25 AM PDT
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I can explain exactly how I became a scientist. It is a long rambling tale probably of interest only to me. But it will introduce you to one of the most important scientists of all time, Mary Anning. A woman with one of the most improbable back stories...
by Nonlinear
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on Sat Feb 09, 2019 at 01:14 PM PST
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What makes denialists tick? And why has Donald Trump been politically successful in denying facts about climate change, Russian attacks, and even Obama’s birth? Keith Kahn-Harris’s “ Denialism:
by Lincoln green
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on Fri Aug 03, 2018 at 06:17 AM PDT
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On this date in 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Joel Kleefisch, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and the husband of Rebecca Kleefisch, who we reported on his more than decade long history...
by republicinsanity
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on Mon Apr 30, 2018 at 04:53 AM PDT
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Things like the age of our solar system (4.6 billion years old, thank you, Google), and the nature of our changing climate (the temperature is “rising,” than you, ExxonMobil), have been suspiciously omitted in New Mexico’s revised curriculum standards...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 28, 2017 at 08:58 AM PDT
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What Trump World Schools Look Like – Alan Singer’s Latest Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59b660aee4b0bef3378ce1d5
Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos champion the privatization of public education in the...
by Reeces Pieces
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on Mon Sep 11, 2017 at 03:49 AM PDT
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In case you missed it, the internet has been buzzing about the new nighttime lighting display at the Ark Encounter, the Christian theme park in Kentucky. The purported full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark is now illuminated in the evenings with a rainbow...
by Krotor
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on Sun Jul 23, 2017 at 11:13 AM PDT
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I expect that most of us have heard by now of a few notorious “professor watchlists” where a student or parent can go and look to see which professors (and the universities that hire them) have a tendency to “advance radical agendas in lecture halls.”...
by ThePaganSun
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on Thu Jul 13, 2017 at 10:56 PM PDT
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There are people who are, through no fault of their own, hugely ignorant. Then there are those who choose to be stupid, who brag about it, who wear it on their jersey like some sort of medal. ...
by Steven Andrew
180 comments
on Mon Jul 10, 2017 at 07:10 PM PDT
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Many Americans have a deep misunderstanding of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prevents the government from interfering with citizens’ right to express their beliefs, in the press, the pulpit or the public square. It does not, in any...
by Crashing Vor
211 comments
on Sun Jul 02, 2017 at 05:32 AM PDT
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On the very same day that millions were marching around the country for science three candidates for the school board of Plano (Texas) ISD were standing up for teaching our kids creationism.
At ...
by DemSign
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on Sun Apr 23, 2017 at 12:50 PM PDT
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Just going to leave this here:
Greg Gianforte, the tech millionaire running for the Montana congressional seat vacated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, doubled down on his stance rejecting the theory of evolution in a radio interview aired...
by poopdogcomedy
20 comments
on Tue Apr 18, 2017 at 07:53 AM PDT
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