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2018-01-31T15:07:18-05:00

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Voucher-School Kids: Christian Right’s New Indoctrination Target

Last updated on: January 31, 2018 at 3:07 pm By Rick Snedeker

The fundamentalist Christian Right movement has changed its strategy but not its stripes as it continues aggressively trying to insinuate faith-based dogma into American voucher schools and children, an excellent New York Times article this week by columnist Michelle Goldberg illustrates. Southern states circumvented the constitutional civil-rights of freed slaves during Reconstruction after the Civil War by terrorizing blacks and constructing a rigidly apartheid social system. Today they circumvent the Constitutional religious-establishment clause as it pertains to education by embracing... Read more

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2018-01-31T13:36:27-05:00

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How American Christianity Perpetuates

Last updated on: January 31, 2018 at 1:36 pm By Rick Snedeker

A standard “From the Pulpit”-type article in a recent edition of the Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader newspaper illustrates one reason why Christianity has so robustly perpetuated for several centuries in the United States. Written by Christina O’Hara, rector of the city’s episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, the article—“If you’re called to new life, something may have to die”—was nominally about death but mostly about life after death. Readers likely don’t register that such religion-page articles, ubiquitous in thousands of... Read more

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2018-01-31T13:39:02-05:00

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The Muslims are coming! It’s ‘war’, warns South Dakota senator

Last updated on: January 31, 2018 at 1:39 pm By Rick Snedeker

Apparently, would-be Muslim refugees to the United States and mainly-Christian interfaith proponents already here are now allies in a war against American Christianity. That’s the curious view of South Dakota state Sen. Neal Tapio, a Republican from Watertown, who tried to explain his position to reporters Thursday morning in a scrum at the state Capitol in Pierre. “Refugee resettlement and interfaith dialogue is a part of a war, a silent part. It’s a part about taking away the Christian fabric... Read more

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2018-01-12T14:54:03-05:00

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Why Do We Believe in the Unbelievable? It’s Natural

Last updated on: January 12, 2018 at 2:54 pm By Guest Contributor

Fascinating new research explores how we came to be what we are. Read more

2018-01-09T14:28:47-05:00

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Identity: The New Political Religion

Last updated on: January 9, 2018 at 2:28 pm By Guest Contributor

Whether it’s Republican voters who think wealthy tax cuts will benefit them or Democrats who think Islam is promoting women’s rights, Americans are voting against their own interests because of political identity. Read more

2017-12-06T08:38:27-05:00

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How the Corporate Media Idealizes Science

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 8:38 am By Shem the Penman

What would we do without the media to tell us how great science is? The corporate-friendly freethinkers at Forbes Magazine don’t want us ever to have to answer that question, and they have columnists on staff to assure us that any of our doubts or concerns about the science industry are absolutely unnecessary. It seems that the sources the general public depends on for science communication are more interested in presenting a whitewashed, simplistic approach to science than engaging in... Read more

2017-11-22T16:24:55-05:00

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The Price Tag for “The Joy of Science”

Last updated on: November 22, 2017 at 4:24 pm By Shem the Penman

The Cassini space probe has a hefty price tag, not only in material but also philosophical terms. Adam Frank at NPR geeked out back in May in a column called “The Joy of Science,” in which he rhapsodized about the beauty and wonder contained in the data retrieved by NASA’s Saturn probes. The Cassini space probe was sending us extraordinary pictures of Saturn’s rings while the Huygens lander was finding out about conditions on Titan, the planet’s largest moon. Frank... Read more

2017-11-16T08:39:49-05:00

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Feynman’s Folly and Why Philosophy of Science is Important

Last updated on: November 16, 2017 at 8:39 am By Shem the Penman

According to Richard Feynman, philosophy of science is for the birds. Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. (Usually attributed to Richard Feynman) This is a popular quote that comes up every time someone mentions the philosophy of science. Since Feynman was such a contrarian, I’m not sure he wasn’t just being ironic. However, the philosophy of science gets a bad rap from science fans in general, who are suspicious of attempts to... Read more

2017-11-13T07:44:18-05:00

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Science, Racism, and Motivated Reasoning

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 7:44 am By Shem the Penman

Racists have always used science as intellectual cover for their bias. Why is it such a reliable refuge for the prejudiced? Is Science Racist? In his new book, Is Science Racist?, professor of anthropology Jonathan Marks says that science has a double standard when it comes to wacky pseudoscience: If you espouse creationist ideas in science, you are branded as an ideologue, as a close-minded pseudo-scientist who is unable to adopt a modern perspective, and who consequently has no place... Read more

2017-11-09T08:52:10-05:00

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Pardon Me, Religion, I’m Sorry to Bother You: Dispatches on Canadian Secularism

Last updated on: November 9, 2017 at 8:52 am By Marc Schaus

Attempts to separate church and state are fuelling powerful debate in America. But what about Canada? Let's take a brief survey of headlines and see. Read more

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