About the American Civil War: I don't know about your area of The South (I think you said you are in North Carolina) but I spent 18 years in Texas from 1978 to 1996. One of the things that...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 14 minutes ago
You wrote, "Once god-is-good, god-is-great has been locked into religious human brains, it can be difficult to grasp the world as it actually is:" I agree. The question though is are we...
Debunking Christianity: “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” Is Fantasy Theobabble · 3 hours ago
The author of this post is expressing an ideology rather than a reasoned argument. For example, the comparison between a career politician and academic(Adlai Stevenson) with an experienced military...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 3 hours ago
Algeria was a "colony" unlike any other colony of the 19th and 20th centuries. The French did not just control the affairs of the country, they actually peopled it with their own. When...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 4 hours ago
40-50 years ago, who could have predicted how much and how quickly the power of the Church and religion would have declined in Southern Ireland?
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 5 hours ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... They don't seem to mind having money stolen from them and given to the Church so as to...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
Not too many Irishmen, North or South seem to be particularly exercised by these issues, though.
That sounds very believable. I suspect it takes a certain "cognitive...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 7 hours ago
Jay Leno's famous "Jaywalking" comedy bit (where Jay went around with a camera crew to pose general knowledge questions to people on the street) was apparently real, until it was...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
The cultural and physical differences between Algerians and their French overlords were considerable. There was a more natural distinction between "us" and "them." Just taking a...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
The IRA certainly earned headlines, but I'd be curious to know how the actual death rate was impacted during The Troubles. In the USA we already have a higher death rate from crime than most...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
There has actually been a huge shift in the "Overton window" on gay rights. Obergefell v. Hodges was in 2015, at a time when public option in the USA was shifting substantially in...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
One of the frustrating things about living in the vestiges of a theocracy such as Ireland is the influence that Christianity still has on our laws. In [Southern] Ireland abortion is only allowed up...
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 8 hours ago
As I recall, the Anarchist's Cookbook had a recipe for C4 as well as instructions for building an off-the-shelf silencer. Mayhem is never far away.
Debunking Christianity: A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) · 9 hours ago
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) · 13 hours 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) · 17 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) · 21 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) · 21 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) · 22 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) · 1 day 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) · 1 day 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) · 1 day 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) · 1 day 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