Category: New Ways of Thinking
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Why Do They Even CALL It ‘Christianity’?
Growing up Non-Christian in a predominantly Christian country does things to you — especially when you realize that you know more about Christianity than most Christians — if only because you bothered to actually READ the texts the religion says it’s based on. You start to develop a sore neck cos your head’s always tilted…
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An Atheists Terrible Confession: I LOVE Televangelists…
As anyone who’s read me (or read my bio) knows — I’m not just an atheist, I’m a devout atheist. I’m not hostile toward religion — because that seems pointless to me — in part because it’s not religion that’s the problem, it’s the silly people who take it unquestioningly to their breasts. The moment…
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My Jesus Can Beat Up Your Jesus
I bet the ‘liturgy’ in ‘republican churches’ is lovely although it all sounds exactly like the “Money” by the Flying Lizards The best things in life are free But you can give them to the birds and bees I want money That’s what I want No doubt the republicans also believe that THEIR Jesus can…
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Get Used To A Gig Economy. It’s The Future For Most of Us
Back when I was growing up, there still existed this ‘notion’ that one’s goal was to educate oneself just enough to score a job with a Big Employer who would then be ‘Your Daddy’ till the day you retired. And, as your Employer was the source of your pension, too — they were going to…
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Today’s Mantra: “BACK IT UP OR IT’S BULLSHIT”
Why do we insist on making (relatively) simple problems complicated? Cause we’re human maybe… We’ve gotten it into our heads that discerning the Truth is difficult and requires a Yoda-like wisdom. No, it doesn’t. It’s actually quite easy. Easier still if you’ve managed to ID and Isolate the BULLSHIT in your life. The first thing…
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In The Pantheon of Bullshit, ‘Flag-Waving’ Sits Atop Its Flagpole
There are Americans – lots of em – who genuinely believe that Patriotism means you wave a flag at every opportunity and scream at people who don’t wave flags cause they’re being ‘unpatriotic’. They think the bigger the flag on their front lawn, the more patriotic they are. These are the same mooks who think…
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A Radical Idea: Let’s RE-NORMALIZE Telling The Truth
It’s astounding what we’ve come to ‘accept’ every day — the bullshitting and prevaricating and parsing of words and flat out LYING for no reason other than it’s the first impulse — to LIE first then BURY the Truth later. Yes, not being entirely forthright or forthcoming is second nature to politics. Most people, in…
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“Karma’s A Bitch” – MITCH MCCONNELL EDITION
When the end of this story gets written, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be seen as one of its Primo Villains. Mitch has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russia (via his PACS — totally legal — until the context becomes TREASON). He’s worked hard, hard, HARD for his Republican Donor Class benefactors…