Publix Stores, Part Of The Vast Islamic Conspiracy?
The Publix grocery chain is being criticized by the Right, over a free 2010 calendar it distributed over the last few weeks. Yes, that’s right … people are up in arms over — get this! — a freebie...
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“Spiritual But Not Religious”… Really?
If you search the Internet for the phrase “spiritual but not religious,” you’ll get thousands of hits. (Try it on Bing, Yahoo, and Google, if you want.) Here is but one example of many I might offer,...
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Corrupt Ex-Governor Miraculously Finds God
Note: Some things have happened with the Gov since I posted this. See below for more information. Unless you happen to live in or near Connecticut, you probably don’t know about our former governor...
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Less Religiosity = Greater Happiness?
Is it possible that the least religious countries in the world, are the happiest? Is there some relationship between irreligion and well-being? That’s the possible conclusion of a study I read about...
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War On Christmas 2015, Part 1
According to Fox News, it’s on, folks! That’s right, Christianists’ annual paranoid whining about an imagined effort to abolish the celebration of Christmas in the US has resumed early — in August!...
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What’s Wrong With: A Lack of Consequences?
This morning on his satellite-radio show, Michael Smerconish brought up the case of Wendy Bell, a local television anchor in Pittsburgh who’d been fired because she put something racially insensitive...
View ArticleThe Purpose-Driven Theocrat
Pastor Rick Warren, multi-millionaire author of the insipid and trite “Purpose-Driven Life” book franchise, is hosting both presidential candidates for some kind of forum (it’s not a debate, exactly …...
View ArticleUsing Religiosity To Deflect Criticism
Here in Connecticut, over the last 10 years or so, we’ve had a sorry parade of public officials brought up on charges, with most of them convicted and run out of office. The current spate of corruption...
View ArticleReligiosity Declines In U.S., But Ferver Is Up
After several years of stories about Americans going to church more frequently — beginning immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks — including stories about voters deciding on candidates based...
View ArticleYet Another Religiosity Poll
That venerable Sunday morning publication, Parade magazine, has released a poll on religiosity in the US. In addition to telling us what we already know … i.e. that a large majority of Americans are...
View ArticleSullivan Breaks From The Right
Andrew Sullivan, journalist and pioneering blogger whose views mostly have been in support of conservatism in the U.S., has decided to divest himself from the Right — and for reasons similar to my own...
View ArticlePublix Stores, Part Of The Vast Islamic Conspiracy?
The Publix grocery chain is being criticized by the Right, over a free 2010 calendar it distributed over the last few weeks. Yes, that’s right … people are up in arms over — get this! — a freebie...
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“Spiritual But Not Religious”… Really?
If you search the Internet for the phrase “spiritual but not religious,” you’ll get thousands of hits. (Try it on Bing, Yahoo, and Google, if you want.) Here is but one example of many I might offer,...
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Corrupt Ex-Governor Miraculously Finds God
Note: Some things have happened with the Gov since I posted this. See below for more information. Unless you happen to live in or near Connecticut, you probably don’t know about our former governor...
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Less Religiosity = Greater Happiness?
Is it possible that the least religious countries in the world, are the happiest? Is there some relationship between irreligion and well-being? That’s the possible conclusion of a study I read about...
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People Dying Over Qur’ans That Haven’t Burned Yet
In an attempt to prove correct the Neocrusaders’ contention that Islam is a violent and dangerous religion, more riots broke out across Afghanistan over the burning of Qur’ans — which haven’t even...
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Yes, Virginia, Obama Is A Christian!
The question of whether or not President Barack Obama is a Christian is one that has plagued him for a long time. Let me begin by getting this out of the way, right now: If he were white and/or a...
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Glenn Beck Too Religious For Hartford Radio, Maybe
Over the last 10 years or so, talk radio in Hartford has taken a remarkably Right-wing turn. All the nationally-syndicated vehement Right-wingers are aired here, by one station or another (the two...
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Does Religion Cause Brain Damage?
It hardly seems possible, in this day and age of rampant accomodationism and the steady rise of relentless religionism, that a scientific study conducted in the United States could reach a conclusion...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses Declare Apostates “Mentally Diseased”
I’m not sure why it took a couple of months for this to become generally known, but a July 2011 edition of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ official magazine, The Watchtower, included an article which declared...
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