I'm Considered "One of Atheism’s Top Apologists."
That's what an important Christian radio program billed me as, seen here, concerning an upcoming interview on March 1st.
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) · 3 hours 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) · 4 hours 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) · 4 hours 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) · 5 hours 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) · 6 hours ago
What is this "competency" of which you speak?
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 6 hours 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: · 6 hours ago
They'd keep voting R.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 6 hours 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) · 6 hours ago
It makes me laugh to think of the kiddoes going to museums to see how their Great Grand-Boomers lived.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 6 hours ago
and the "civil war" and "secession" rhetoric that's been casually tossed around may become reality sooner rather than later.
There's a YouTube...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 6 hours ago
I don't subscribe to the naturalistic fallacy here.
Note that some philosophers use the term differently than I do here. I refer to the "Appeal to Nature"...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
Note that a large, and somewhat ironic, obstacle to genetic enhancement for humas are advocates for the disabled (or "differently abled" in the euphemism treadmill). Their reasoning seems...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
What would the logistics for this enterprise look like? Who would profit? What would happen as a result in the meantime? What social repercussions? What would happen to the millions of...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
She clearly suffers from delusions of competency. ;)
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
I've wondered what effect, if any, the neuroleptic drugs that "control" or "manage" symptoms of schizophrenics would have on people who are merely apophenic. The symptoms...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
"... genetic augmentation of humans looks both inevitable and necessary to me." What would the logistics for this enterprise look like? Who would profit? What would happen as a result in...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
And the marketing of (unholy) spirits, as well as tobacco, often emphasizes "taste", as if that's what hooks the marks. I suspect fewer people would feel urges to indulge,...
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 8 hours ago
"... define God this way, as outside of space and time..."
What that amounts to is, "I said I believe in this thing and that's that. So, shut up !"...
Debunking Christianity: Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: · 9 hours ago
Despite all the hysteria among humans who associate the word "eugenics" with "Nazi" and "genocide", genetic augmentation of humans looks both inevitable...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 9 hours ago
It's fun to sit around and mock the stupid, while we watch their stupidity crater our retirement accounts. Just like the way everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 9 hours ago
There are more layers of meaning here. If you refer to the company that claims to have de-extincted the dire wolf, the gene-editing technology they used could lead to the future elimination of...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 10 hours ago
Your meme reminds me of a GenZ friend who visited a computer museum, and told me how amazing it was to type on a typewriter there! Maybe someday the Gen Alphas will go to a phone museum to see...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 10 hours ago
Greene belongs in an institution other than Congress. Somewhere she can get the medication she is in such need of.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 10 hours ago
Hofstadter points out that the American populace has been at war with the mind for a very long time.
And not just the American populace. Every culture of humans on the...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 10 hours ago