February 21, 2023

Let’s work for a world in which Pakistani ‘blasphemers’ will not be killed danielle@ffrf.org (Danielle) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Earlier this month, a mob broke into a police station in Punjab, Pakistan, dragged a man through the streets and beat him to death. Why? He was accused of “blasphemy.” Muhammad Warris was being held on suspicion of blasphemy. In […]

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Congressional attempt to abolish Education Department unsettling danielle@ffrf.org (Danielle) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is deeply concerned about a recently introduced congressional bill to abolish the Department of Education. HR 899, proposed by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., calls for eliminating the Department of Education and would be profoundly harmful

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Shutdown of Missouri religious health care outfit shows need for stricter regulation danielle@ffrf.org (Danielle) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The implosion of a dubious religious health insurance entity in Missouri demonstrates the need for stronger restrictions on such outfits. After defrauding consumers for years, a Missouri health care sharing ministry has been shut down by the federal government. The

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Atheist Republic News Summary: Pakistani Mob Kidnaps Man Accused of Blas… P-admin Atheist Republic

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Read More Atheist Republic Pakistani Mob Kidnaps Man Accused of Blasphemy From Police & Lynches Him https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/pakistani-mob-kidnaps-man-accused-blasphemy-police-lynchs-him Location: Pakistan On February 11th, an angry mob in Pakistan attacked a man at a police station in Punjab province and lynched him. The man was identified as Waris Ali Issa. Waris was imprisoned for reportedly desecrating pages

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From the archive: Psychoanalysing God – Sigmund Freud on Religion Ian Fairholm The Skeptic

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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 17, Issue 4, from 2006. Sigmund Freud’s work on religion, a subject he seemed immensely fascinated with despite his distaste for it as a modern-day practice, has not fared well under close scrutiny. Here I offer a critical assessment of Freud’s ideas about religion, before concluding to

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Naomi Oreskes — The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market Skeptic Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Shermer and Oreskes discuss: the myth of market magic • market fundamentalism • market absolutism • market essentialism • capitalism and democracy • well-regulated vs. poorly regulated capitalism • U.S. Constitution and capitalism • what the founding fathers believed about markets • what Adam Smith really said about markets and capitalism and

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There is Only Entropy: Unifying the Narrative of Science Chris Edwards Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Entropy keeps the arrow of time moving; today is less ordered than yesterday, and this is certain. If we extrapolate this concept backwards, through our scientific narrative to the origins of the universe, then we must postdict a universe that was once ordered only through its lack of movement, which means it

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