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The Fading Of Christianity In Numbers. Embracing The Dying Of The Light?

An interesting statistic, the source of which I do not know and therefore cannot verify, shows that those who claim they are "not religious" is increasing in North Africa. Libya…

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Synod Leaders Sign Pact Of Extreme Global Warming, Silly Walks

Over the weekend, so ace report Edward Pentin tells us, leaders at the Amazon Synod signed a document "Pact of the Catacombs for the Common Home", an echo of an…

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The Week In Doom — It’s On Edition

Item Big changes to grueling Special Forces course draw scrutiny (Thanks to Bill Raynor for the tip.) For the nearly 200 candidates scrambling through Hoffman Forest at Camp Mackall, the…

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Pew Says Trust In Scientists Up. How Depressing

Pew says "Americans' confidence that scientists act in the public interest is up since 2016". This surprises, because we have been tracking how science is becoming woker and woker, the…

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The Week In Doom — Accelerating Doom Edition

Once again, we have a week with too much Doom. Way it's going, we're soon going to need a daily edition. Item https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1182466357738164225 The Hectoring Harridan from Hell would be…

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Draft Realist Catholic Climate Declaration: Please Share!

Here we are, friends. As promised, Draft 2 of the Realist Catholic Climate Declaration. Draft 1 is at the bottom, with a summary of critiques. The goal is to have…

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The Week In Doom — Extreme Transphobia Edition

Item https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1178619997704327168 A man preferring a woman over a man pretending to a woman, and vice versa, is now "transphobic". This ramping up of insanity was expected, at least among…

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ADL Lists 100%, Boots, Okay Sign, Bowl Cuts As “Hate” Symbols

The fund raising organization known as the Anti-Defamation League defamed basketball coaches the world over for their use of "100%", which is now an official "hate" symbol, and therefore "anti-Semitic".…

Tars Tarkas on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
If we are to have to put up with reliving the 1970s, I just hope and pray it's complete with…
Brian (bulaoren) on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
Didn't Aldous Huxley say, in Brave New World, "A dramme is better than a damn"? He was referring to a…
NLR on Academic Proposes Mushrooms To Avoid Compulsory Moral BioenhancementDecember 3, 2025
Rule #0: Is it in good faith? Much of modern ethical discussions are in bad faith. Ostensibly, these ethical questions…
John Pate on The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Is Wrong: “Guns” are not the leading cause of death in kidsDecember 2, 2025
It's termed "negligent discharge." It is highly unlikely a gun fires without the operator making some kind of error. Even…
Cary D Cotterman on The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Is Wrong: “Guns” are not the leading cause of death in kidsDecember 2, 2025
My wife and I went to a Nordstrom department store last weekend. On the door was a prominent sign declaring…