h/t: The Huffington Post
CHRISTIAN MISOGYNY: “Schoolhouse Rock Parody Takes Aim At Texas’ Terrible Abortion Bill”
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Category Archives: Moral Philosophy
CATHOLIC CHURCH CHILD RAPE: “The Beast File: Catholic Church Sex Scandals”
h/t: Too Many Questions
QUOTATION: “What an Atheist Believes” / Madalyn Murray O’Hair
h/t: Atheism 411
ANTITHEISM: “Religion and Rapists” / Atheism 411
h/t: Atheism 411
REASON: “A Lesson in Humility” / Atheist Pig
h/t: The Atheist Pig
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: Friendly Atheist
ATHEISM: “The Brief Lucidity of Life Before an Endless Naught”
RELIGIOUS ABSURDITY: “Does Hell Exist?” / BBC One / The Big Questions
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “After Louie Giglio Bows Out, Some Ask If Conservative Evangelicals Are Welcome In The Public Square” / Jaweed Kaleem
Now that the Rev. Louie Giglio, the Atlanta pastor who was going to pray at President Barack Obama’s inauguration but came under fire for an anti-gay sermon he gave in the mid-1990s, has bowed out, some conservative Christians and evangelicals have began to ask: are they welcome in the public square?
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The inaugural committee says that Giglio’s comments on gay people “don’t reflect our desire to celebrate the strength and diversity of our country at this Inaugural” and is seeking someone else to deliver the benediction. Who should it choose?
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ATHEISM: “Atheist Temples”
ACADEMIC STUDY: Susie Madrak / “Conservatism Is Lack of Complexity In Political Brain”
Interesting studies. Whenever I argue with a conservative, I always end up saying in frustration, “But it’s not that simple!” It appears that for some people, their inability to reason out complex ideas is what makes them conservatives, and not their hatred of the human race (although there may be some overlap there)!
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In the four studies conducted by Scott Eidelman, Christian S. Crandall, Jeffrey A. Goodman, and John C. Blanchar published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, they concluded, “(P)olitical conservatism is promoted when people rely on low-effort thinking.
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We think that compassion and empathy are a fundamental part of liberal values, and we note at times that it takes being in that specific situation for conservatives to grasp why, for example, liberals support universal healthcare for all. There are many studies that address that take on things, but this study is specifically addressing whether or not having low-effort thinking will produce conservative thinking initially, and they showed that it does.
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