Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
We live in a world cluttered with quackery, pseudoscience, and outright fraud. Some of it is slick and sophisticated. Some of it is laughably silly. Today’s example falls into the latter category: homeopathy. This would be funny enough if it were merely a private market in magical sugar pills. The problem is that Senator Mike … Read more
Why 666? Basically because this is my 666th posting on Medium, hence I’ve been inspired to mull over this rather infamous 666 number and apply a bit of critical thinking to it. There is what we actually know about this number, and then there are the multiple layers of religious mythology that surrounds it. Which … Read more
Part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the sixth part of a weekly series, you can find the previous posting here … https://medium.com/theocracy-watch/when-politics-borrows-the-language-of-faith-5b0ce8da6e39 You can be fooled. I can be fooled. We can all be fooled. That is why discernment matters. Some Christian voices are speaking … Read more
Five warning signs Christians should not ignore. Part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the fifth part of what will be a weekly series, you can find the previous posting here … https://medium.com/theocracy-watch/seeing-through-weaponized-faith-five-patterns-you-should-never-ignore-87d246615768 Who is this series for? This series is for Christians who want to … Read more
Christian Nationalist Reality Check #4. This is part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the fourth part of a weekly series, you can find the previous posting here … https://medium.com/theocracy-watch/five-political-rhetoric-traps-everybody-should-learn-to-recognize-7fd9deebcd09 Each week we look at examples of political rhetoric that use Christian language in ways that … Read more
This is Christian Nationalist Reality Check #3. It is part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the third part of what will be a weekly series, you can find the previous (second) posting here … https://medium.com/theocracy-watch/christian-nationalist-reality-check-2-five-ways-religion-is-being-used-to-manipulate-politics-2f5fdde88c6c Across modern politics there is a pattern that is becoming … Read more
