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Behold, atheists’ new Ten Commandments
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/19/living/atheist-10-commandments/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Printed here for your enjoyment:
…1. Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.
2. Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you
Conservatives’ HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex?
Proof that vaccinating girls against the HPV virus does not cause promiscuity puts culture warriors in a spot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/conservatives-hpv-vaccine-dilemma
I find this bit so amusing I am including it verbatim:…
What killed social conservatism?
Technological progress has made it impossible for conservatives to obscure the truth about Americans’ sex lives
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/22/what_killed_social_conservatism/
Really interesting article that (to me) seems to provide a deep insight to the right-wing way of thought. I …
Behind the Right’s Phony War on the Nonexistent Religion of Secularism
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/behind-the-rights-phony-war-on-the-nonexistent-religion-of-secularism-20120425
This quote kind of says it all:
…“Mothers have long observed that after the first child starts school, the rest of the family starts catching more colds and
Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds
Those who think more analytically are less inclined to be religious believers than are those who tend to follow a gut instinct, researchers conclude.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-religion-analytical-thinking-20120427,0,5374010.story
Something sure to rile up the religious right, …
Hopefully my reader(s) here all have the capacity to read this and feel shame being a US citizen. I strongly doubt that the vast majority of the sheeple in our stagnant, corrupt third-world country even have the capacity to read …
Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/forget-the-money-follow-the-sacredness/
An interesting bit of a theme working out here, purely by accident…
OK, read the following and pick if you are Type A or Type 1…
Type A:
…“Once upon a time, the
Outsourcing conservatism
Arizona’s new contraception law shows how the private sphere often leads the way for reactionary policies
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/outsourcing_conservatism/singleton/
What can’t be accomplished from within the government gets done anyway. Using the Constitution to shield un-Constitutional activities, picking and choosing …
Birth Control Matters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nita-chaudhary/kathleen-sebelius-plan-b_b_1241653.html
This is a big deal, but the topic has been hijacked by people who have no stake in the matter and want to revert us to a reproductive stone age. I recently read an article in …
Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy
A close look at the roots of Romney’s — and the Mormon church’s — political ambitions
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/singleton/
I have more or less ignored Mormonism since I learned the basics of their religious belief (…