WHITE-WING TROGLODYTE CONSERVATISM: “Republican Voters Should Be Denied the Right to Vote” / Mike Malloy ☮
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US POLITICS: “The Statesman Schools a Brinksman” / President Jimmy Carter ☮
BLACK CHRISTIAN FASCISTS: “Protesters Silence Bernie Sanders in Seattle” / Mike Malloy ☮
REASON AND SCIENCE: “When You Wish Upon A Star” / Faisal Saeed Al Mutar ☮
h/t: Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar is the founder of the Global Secular Humanist Movement and Secular Post
CHURCH: “Televangelists” / Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ☮
CHRISTIAN MISOGYNY: “President Jimmy Carter: Losing My Religion for Equality” / Leslie Salzillo ☮
For most of his life, Jimmy Carter has been an advocate for human rights. In 1982, one year after leaving the Oval Office, the former US President and his wife Rosalynn Carter, founded the Carter Center, dedicated to advancing peace and health worldwide. Still an activist at 90, Carter has authored 28 books, including a new book in 2014 called, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.
Over the years, Jimmy Carter, a devout Christian, has become a very strong proponent of women’s rights, to a point where he has spoken out against the falsehoods and extremism we see within the ‘religion’ of Christianity today. In 2009, he penned an open letter, severing ties with the mega SBC/Southern Baptist Convention, after being a member of the Convention for 60 years. Carter said the decision was difficult and painful, yet ‘unavoidable,’ after the Convention leaders chose to take bible verses out of context and claim ‘Eve’ was responsible to for ‘original sin,’ and thus all women must be subservient to men. In Carter’s aforementioned open letter, he expands on his reasons and concerns:
REASON AND SCIENCE: “Difference Between a Freethinker and a Religious Person” ☮
h/t: Pete Nelson
CONFORMITY: “Black Sheep and Conformists” ☮
h/t: Atheist Republic
EPISTOMOLOGY: “On Questions vs. Answers” / Richard Feynman ☮
h/t: Beyond Our Sight
VEGETARIANISM: “What If Everyone in the World Became a Vegetarian?” / Mother Jones / L.V. Anderson ☮
Treating yourself to vegan burgers with sweet potato and chickpeas isn’t just a delicious indulgence; it could help save the planet. VeselovaElena/Thinkstock
This story originally appeared on Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The meat industry is one of the top contributors to climate change, directly and indirectly producing about 14.5 percent of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and global meat consumption is on the rise. People generally like eating meat—when poor people start making more money, they almost invariably start buying more meat. As the population grows and eats more animal products, the consequences for climate change, pollution, and land use could be catastrophic.
Attempts to reduce meat consumption usually focus on baby steps—Meatless Monday and “vegan before 6,” passable fake chicken, and in vitro burgers. If the world is going to eat less meat, it’s going to have to be coaxed and cajoled into doing it, according to conventional wisdom.
But what if the convincing were the easy part? Suppose everyone in the world voluntarily stopped eating meat, en masse. I know it’s not actually going to happen. But the best-case scenario from a climate perspective would be if all 7 billion of us woke up one day and realized that PETA was right all along. If this collective change of spirit came to pass, like Peter Singer‘s dearest fantasy come true, what would the ramifications be?
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