Eddie Tabash on the Separation of Church and State
Even Christians can support the separation of church and state, okay?
In the US there are tens of thousands of ex-servicemen who haven't practiced war in quite a while but certainly haven't forgotten how it's done.
Exactly! The...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 14 minutes ago
Roe v Wade, and perhaps even Obergafell, are examples of coercion without persuasion. Both Supreme Court decisions seem to have been issued in the teeth of the will of the majority. Roe v. Wade...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 3 hours ago
McKinsey believed that the time and money spent trying to shore up secularism in the courts could be better spent on trying to deconvert more Christians.
Coercion vs....
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
And re: Benatar's ideas, I assume you refer to:
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar Oxford University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 9780199549269,...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
There is certainly a victim (or two, in the case of conjoined and inseparable twins). But biological parents enjoy magical rights as a result of tradition, it seems. Biological parents can...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
And the rubes fall for that shtick every time.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
Here in Ameri-duh it's already become obvious you don't need to shoot up a Tesla dealership if there's a gas station in the neighborhood. Back in the 60s, city blocks were being...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 19 hours ago
That is what guerilla warfare is about, or urban warfare, or asymmetrical war. You don't necessarily hope to defeat your opponent militarily, just harass him till he gives up the fight. I...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 21 hours ago
The Irish Republican Army didn't consist of infantry divisions supported by tank battalions and bombers; it amounted to small cadres of dedicated fighters who engaged in sabotage,...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 21 hours ago
Warfare is still a physically strenuous activity.
Conventional warfare in the traditional sense of the past, would be. Not every member of the community will be a...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
Tradition has it that when the Pythagoreans gained a lot of political power in Croton, Cylon, a democrat, led a popular revolt against them. The mob burned Pythagoras' school. Some traditions...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
I haven't drunk Guinness since I got a bad hangover from drinking pints of it 20 years ago. My father drinks Guinness though. I usually drink lagers such as Birra Morreti. In Ireland we have...
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 1 day ago
I am not an antinatalist, however I subscribe to Benatar’s ideas on wrongful birth. A chronically disabled person should be allowed to sue his/her parents for wrongful birth. I only view cases such...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
That's a puzzler. Perhpas a manifistation of my own delusional state. lol
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
Unfortunately, competency has little to do when gerrymandering provides safe districts for the most extreme politicians. In primaries, voter turnout is lower and tends to skew toward the most...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
For far too many: "my ignorance is better than your knowledge."
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
She's competent at being re-elected, by voters who believe in a literal Noah's Ark. As long as she can keep distracting her marks, for example with the right-wing media bullhorn currently...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
#3: the "best colleges," IMO, are only occasionally about the best students. They're mostly endowment mills that punch the tickets of the next generation of...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
What about those guys who make videos where they ask someone, usually a girl / young woman, some obvious question, like "In what continent is the United States?" The mark (?) will act...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
#3: the "best colleges," IMO, are only occasionally about the best students. They're mostly endowment mills that punch the tickets of the next generation of "elites" as in...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
I remember George Bush the father in a speech or an interview on TV when he was president, how he twisted his mouth to mock the word "intellectual", saying with a smirk, "We are not...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
What is this "competency" of which you speak?
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
"...get the Hebrew Abjad permanently stuck in one’s head."
The very word "Abjad" is identical in Arabic: ABJAD, but is pronounced "abajad"....
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 1 day ago
They'd keep voting R.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago
I learned how to type on a Royal manual type writer back in 1962. One of the most useful skills I ever picked up.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 1 day ago