A Little-Known Organization That Is One Of The Most Dangerous To The USA

"John Oliver takes a look at the Alliance Defending Freedom – the legal organization behind several landmark Supreme Court cases, including the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade."

Click on the link below for an exposé of this evil group of ideologs: 

Alliance Defending Freedom: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

An Objective Look At Pope Francis & The Catholic Church

"I have often wondered why membership in the Catholic church isn’t down to zero by now—and I’ve voiced this curiosity quite a few times in my articles here. The Catholic church to date has paid out 3 to 4 BILLION dollars in legal fees because of child abuse/rape by its clergy. Why haven’t Catholics abandoned the church en masse? When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, and was welcomed as a breath of fresh air, the best thing he could have done was hold a weekly press conference to explain all the measures he had taken to get rid of pedophile priests—how many had been expelled from their positions and turned over to the police; what improved screening processes had been initiated to prevent such men from being ordained; what ongoing counseling programs had been established to help priests behave—including high ranking clergy who have transferred offending priests to other parishes. Of course, sexual abuse has come to light in many other Christian brands, but this hideous scandal qualifies the Catholic church as a dangerous cult."

Click on the link below for more:

It's Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy

Is This The Reason We Are Losing Civil Rights And A Growing Economy Under Trump/MAGA?

In recent decades, there has been a steady decrease in the number of US residents who are religious, while civil rights and the economy have been expanding during the same time:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-religious-composition-has-changed-in-recent-decades/

However, since the advent of the Presidency of Donald Trump and his MAGA, the trend appears to have stopped:

"The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday from the Pew Research Center.

"The Religious Landscape Study finds 62% of U.S. adults call themselves Christians. While a significant dip from 2007, when 78% of Americans identified as Christian, Pew found the Christian share of the population has remained relatively stable since 2019." (link)

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I BELIEVE THIS IS MORE THAN A CORRELATION.

I BELIEVE THERE IS SOME CAUSATION HERE BECAUSE RELIGION DAMPENS CRITICAL THINKING.

Why I No Longer Celebrate Easter (Or Other Mythical Stories)

 

 

Nothing will really improve in the USA until its Constitution is fully obeyed (1st Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, - - -")

Stop:

"In God We Trust" on money

Prayer in government events and locations

The 1st Amendment also includes " or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." You have your homes and churches/religious centers to do your worship. 

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 If you are offended by this post, you can do better. You don't have to be locked into false and harmful beliefs. I understand you being upset. We are all defensive when our identity and beliefs are challenged.

We all want to reduce harm in the world. I see how religion adds to and promotes it. I hope you will eventually see this reality. Peace.

A Troubling Trend In The USA

"Young men are turning to conservatism—in politics and in Christianity

"They didn’t see this coming. Liberals in America are scratching their heads trying to explain what happened in November’s election and the closer they look, the stranger it seems. There was a decided shift to the right among young men in America, crossing ethnic lines and shocking the political class. They shouldn’t have been shocked.

"The evidence was there all along and the pattern has been growing year by year. Looking for young men? Go visit a MAGA rally or drop in at your local conservative church. And these young men are young—some of them still teenagers. They showed up in droves at Trump rallies. The events drew thousands of college fraternity brothers dressed in blazers and, more visibly, an army of young men wearing red, white, and blue and sporting MAGA baseball caps. The young male vote is an increasingly conservative vote, perplexing many liberal parents.

"The New York Times has noticed the trend. A recent headline in the nation’s newspaper of record made that clear: “When Your Son Goes MAGA.” The paper then explained that a good number of liberal parents struggle to understand their own young sons. “As more young men support President Trump, some parents are feeling flummoxed.” They seem to be shocked that their young male offspring are increasingly committed to conservative ideas and gathering in conservative spaces.

"As reporter Callie Holtermann rightly notes, children often follow their parents when it comes to political loyalties. In recent times, however, many conservative sons are breaking with the politics of their liberal parents. One liberal mom had to undergo “tearful therapy sessions” to deal with her own sense of parental failure. “I’ve had to do a lot of soul-searching and reading about it to not feel like I’ve failed as a mom,” she said.

"And it’s not just politics. For the first time in living memory, young men are more likely than young women to attend church. A few months ago, another New York Times report by Ruth Graham set the trend clearly: “For the first time in modern American history, young men are now more religious than their female peers. They attend services more often and are more likely to identify as religious.” Today’s young women tend to be more liberal and more secular than young men.

"What’s going on here? Ruth Graham noted something really significant: “Childless young men are likelier than childless young women to say they want to become parents someday, by a margin of 12 percentage points, according to a survey last year by Pew.” They want to be husbands, they want to be fathers, they want to work, they want to go to church, they want to commit themselves to a bold theology, they want to fulfill a courageous male role and they want to reinforce each other as brothers. They also want father figures they can trust, admire, and emulate. They want respect and they will give respect. The larger society, driven by woke ideologies and pervaded by politicized emotionalism, offers them no encouragement. Liberal churches and female preachers draw virtually none of these young men, who, even if many are not yet well grounded in Scripture and natural law, know that the world around them is often upside-down. They see the culture around them as weirdly confused. These young men are not confused.

"They can tell the difference between a boy and a girl and are thoroughly certain about the matter. They don’t hang on every word President Trump says, but they are drawn to his energy and straight talk. They also feel that Trump’s enemies are often their enemies as well. They like the male affirmation that comes in conservative spaces (and increasingly only in conservative spaces) and they are earnestly seeking young women who are as unconfused as they are. They enjoy being male and hunger to be taken seriously.

"Looking for young men today? Don’t go to a liberal church or seminary—they aren’t there. They are far more likely to be in a conservative school, a college, or seminary devoted to the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and in a conservative church. A photo published by the Times alongside the Ruth Graham article showed a worship service with rows of young men up front. It’s not an accident. They are drawn to bold faith and biblical teaching. They hunger for truth, and someone better deliver it to them. A researcher cited in the Times article said that Christianity is seen as “the one institution that isn’t initially and formally skeptical of them as a class.” That rings true, for sure.

"At my advanced age, I am well past being confused as a young man, but I get to be surrounded by thousands of them every day. They make me incredibly happy. As president of a conservative seminary and college, I get to teach them, work with them, send them out into the world, and go to church with them. I get to see so many of them growing up as young husbands and new fathers. They amaze me. I thank God for them. They may be a perplexity to the world (and even to some of their own parents) but to me they are a sign of God’s favor. It’s our task to teach and encourage them for a life of faithfulness as men of God." (link)

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Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.

A Reminder: Claiming A Miracle Is A "God Of The Gaps" Fallacy

Click on the link below for an in-depth expose of how the Catholic Church handles this fraudulent enterprise and how it is fueled as much by the indoctrinated, ignorant members at least as much as the clergy:

Inside the Vatican's secret saint-making process

ANY Claim Of A Spiritual Entity Is Incoherent

"Here's William Lane Craig trying to convince us that non-physical entities are a coherent concept. Christians believe that God is a nonphysical being. Already we have a self-contradictory assertion."

Click on the link below for a bogus apologetic (a redundancy) that, essentially, is at the base of all of it:

What Is a Spirit, Exactly?

15 Minutes To Really Understand US Politics

"An overwhelming majority of WHITE Christians vote Republican. And an overwhelming majority of BLACK Christians vote Democrat. Why is that? Don't they read the same Bible and pray to the same God? Which group doesn't know they're voting for the wrong party?? Phil Vischer takes us on a fast-paced trip through history to figure out why different American Christians read the same Bible, pray to the same God, and vote very, very differently."

Click on the link below to look at US history through the changes in the two major US political parties since the Civil War:

Why do White Christians Vote Republican, and Black Christians Vote Democrat?

Who Created God?

Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein one cites something as an exception to a general or universal principle, without justifying the special exception.[1][2][3][4][5] It is the application of a double standard.[6][7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading)

Click on the link below for a great rebuttal to religious apologists claiming that God created everything:

Kent Hovind Thinks He's Really Clever

Memory And The Bible

"Did this psych student from the University of Wilmington prove Frank Turek to be 'patently false' about impact events? Watch me watch Frank to unpack the heart of Frank's argument and the importance of identifying the distinction between major and minor details."

Click on the link below to understand that our memories of "Impact Events" are flawed:

Psych Student Tells Christian Apologist He's Wrong

The Old Testament Debunked

Click here for one of the best debunkings of the BASE of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions you will ever be exposed to. Take 8 minutes to watch it, then tell me all about your Abrahamic faith.

Christianity Is Influenced By Many Myths

Click on the links below for an in-depth look at the history of Christianity and how its myth is not significantly unlike other myths:

https://www.collegesidekick.com/study-docs/2069056

https://religions.wiki/index.php/Christianity_originated_as_an_amalgamation_of_earlier_pagan_religions

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/influence-mystery-religions-christianity

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Mythic-Origins-of-Christianity-True-or-False

Can You Be Christian & Vote For Donald Trump?

Click on the link below for a short video attempting to answer this question:

Why are Christians voting for a convicted felon like Donald Trump? 

The History Of Christianity In The USA

“This is a map showing the percentage of adults who are highly religious per State. Looking at it, you'll notice this southern region over here is much more distinct than the rest. In fact, it's so distinct it even has its own name: the Bible Belt. Protestant Christianity plays a strong role in society here and church attendance across the denominations is much higher than the nation's average. But why is that? Why is this part of America so much more religious than the rest? I mean New England was literally founded by Puritans who thought Europe was too Godless and is now the most atheistic region in the union. So what's happened? Well, to understand this religious flip-flop and the intensity of it in the South, we need to go all the way back to the beginning, and I mean back to the literal founding of the 13 colonies themselves, with the first one being Jamestown Virginia in 1607.”

Click on this link for an in-depth history lesson that explains much of the tensions in the USA.

Imagine A World Without Religion

"There has seldom been a war that religion did not support.

"Scholars say that before the rise of patriarchal religions, human beings lived fairly peaceably in kinship-based communities under matriarchs who established a more tolerant morality than the later, father-worshiping kind.

"Pre-patriarchal cultures were very indulgent of their children, giving them much physical affection and little punishment. They also tended to be permissive about physical pleasures and sexuality. There were no homosexuality taboos, no concubinage, no prostitution. The sexes had equal status although the families were matrilocal and matrilineal. Most property was owned by the women, whose life-giving magic was considered essential to fertility in general. Descent was reckoned only through mothers, among people who had not yet understood biological fatherhood. There was no caste system and no full-time military. Religion was some variant of nature worship with no strict codes, a Mother Goddess being primary and her consorts secondary. Such cultures were generally nonviolent and valued spontaneity, humor, and sensual enjoyments."

Click on the link below for more information that you probably were not aware of:

https://freethoughtnow.org/religion-has-always-supported-war/

Why Humanists Reject The Bible

"Humanists reject the claim that the Bible is the word of God. They are convinced the book was written solely by humans in an ignorant, superstitious, and cruel age. They believe that because the writers of the Bible lived in an unenlightened era, the book contains many errors and harmful teachings.

"Humanists receive much criticism due to their position on the Bible. Some critics even accuse them of being evil. This article attempts to clarify the reasons why Humanists hold negative views about the Bible."

Click on this link for the main reasons that the Bible cannot be accepted as a guide for belief and action:

The Republican Party: A Puppet On Many Strings

"Republicans have been trending toward Putin fandom for more than a decade but with each passing year the stakes get higher, the propaganda gets more brazen, and what they're willing to support gets more grotesque."

Click on the link below to get the full picture of what is controlling the US Republican Party presently:

The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy

An Evangelical Pastor Helps In Getting Democratic Party Votes

"Our guest this week recently traveled down to the border to confront the so-called “Army of God” as part of a larger project of providing alternative ideologies to Christian nationalism. Doug Pagitt is a pastor, author and the executive director of Vote Common Good, an organization aimed at influencing evangelical Christians. His group has been on a nationwide tour focused on directly engaging evangelicals in key swing states with the hope of swaying a critical percentage of them against former President Donald Trump. Pagitt believes a small portion of these voters are swayable and that if they are engaged, election outcomes can be flipped. He joins WITHpod to discuss the trajectory of evangelical politics, what he’s learned on tour, and what’s at stake in this year’s election."

Click on the link below for an hour podcast that delves into what one evangelical pastor is doing in an attempt to get fellow evangelicals who are wavering over Trump/MAGA to see enough reality regarding the 2024 vote to do the right thing:

Confronting Christian Nationalism From Within

Christian Nationalists: A Wide Demographic

"Based on a substantial survey of 22,000 adults from across the country, new polling from the Public Religion Research Institute on Christian nationalism confirms that Christian nationalism is strongly linked to voting for Republicans, higher church attendance and white evangelical Protestant affiliation. But not for everybody. The poll finds that a substantial percentage of Black and Hispanic Americans are Christian nationalists. It also finds that Black people who identify as Christian nationalists diverge politically from their white and Hispanic counterparts."

Click on the link below for more:

Meet the Christian Nationalist voter

Sex & Christian History: What You Don't Know

"Was Adam androgynous? What did the apostle Paul say about sex? What does Christianity say about gender roles? Was sex allowed in early Christianity? Here I discuss all of these issues, citing the writings of Paul, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, Polemon the Stoic, Acts of Thecla, and more."

Click on the link below for the bizarre history of sexual attitudes in the history of Christianity:

Ancient Christian Beliefs About Sex Were Wild