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Mythinformation Conference
(Image of Dr. Richard Carrier)Until yesterday, Milwaukee had not hosted a significant conference devoted to atheism or related free-thought topics. Yesterday’s Mythinformation Conference, organized...
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Cat fight over great art
Image of a desolate Virgin Mary, from The Descent from the Cross by Rogier Van der Weyden, displayed for now at the Prado museum, MadridEven as recently as last year, when I wrote a short article...
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duggar son in child sex scandal
Update on June 4, 2015: It's all about JIm Bob. I've said this all along about the Duggar family, and his interview last night by Megyn Kelly on Fox News with his wife Michelle at his side proved it....
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the celebrity transgender transition
(Image: Robert Moog and his Modular Synthesizer)Most people who are transitioning from one gender to another - and the process is by no means as rare as it was 20 or more years ago - would prefer a...
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"Tomb of Jesus" promoter wins legal case
Image: The Talpiot Tomb, found in a suburb five kilometers southeast of Jerusalem.If you've seen the headlines this week about the Talpiot Tomb, you might be misled. Many newspaper reports say that a...
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Time of tribulations
My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult;my heart is poured out in grief - Lamentations 2:11For a few days after the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay...
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it's over for the duggars
After months of deliberation, The Learning Channel cancelled 19 Kids and Counting, the reality TV show that featured Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, with a supporting cast of 19 children plus multiple...
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I had some concerns about Caitlyn Jenner and the way she would handle her transition to a woman. She has been so closely identified with the Kardashian television family, for so many years, that it...
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I have some summer speaking events coming up. I would be delighted to meet you if you are in the area and can attend any of these events:A Book Reading from Jehoshua: Conflagration, at the Brian Boru...
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the very ordinary chattanooga killer
Four American marines and one seaman are now dead at the hands of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who went on a rampage this week, killing military recruiting officers at two locations in Chattanooga,...
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conservative christianity in retreat
Well, it looks like I was completely wrong about Joshua Feuerstein. In the article below, posted yesterday, I suggested that Feuerstein has eliminated his political and right-wing cultural rants, and...
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donald trump: the man of many minds
Image; Donald Trump standing in front of a statue of actor John Wayne. Having spent the summer resisting the temptation to write about Donald Trump, I’ve finally come to terms with what is behind my...
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kim davis: martyr to the cause of bigotry
Kim Davis, the Rowan, Kentucky county clerk who is refusing to issue gay marriage licenses, is the current “poster boy” for conservative Christian resistance to the recent Supreme Court ruling...
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it's time to destroy the republican party
The title of this article is not simply a cri de coeur - an emotional appeal to exterminate one of the two major American political parties. It is a simple statement of fact. Something must be done,...
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kim davis challenges the federal courts
Don't by surprised if Rowan County, Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis is thrown back into jail, this time for an extended stay. She has - at least in my view - willfully and egregiously violated the...
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pope francis delivers a serious rebuke to america
I don't think anyone expected Pope Francis, when he was invited to speak at a joint session of the U.S. Congress, to deliver a speech that thoroughly and pointedly insulted his host. But that is...
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pope francis enmeshed in gay marriage controversy
Image: Mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino, center with sash, celebrating his issuance of a certificate of marriage to a gay couple.Since leaving the United States following his enormously successful tour of...
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A modest proposal in response to this week's mass shooting
America is averaging at least one mass shooting a day. This week's most notable event was the attack on students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Ten students are dead from this...
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the mystery surrounding mass murderers
Christopher Harper-Mercer, who on an internet profile said he did not like organized religion, apparently acted on this impulse when he shot to death nine students and a professor last week at a...
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aCCIDENTAL SHOOTING AT O.K. CORRAL
Image: Wyatt Earp, 1923In this morning's roundup of gun related injuries, three stories stood out.This weekend's staged shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, ended in an injury when one of...
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