Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Previously the selection of my personal top three items of religious weirdness have perhaps been dominated by US religious weirdness each week. So what happens if I apply a US filter this week, will I be left bereft and find nothing to choose because the US has a monopoly on religious weirdness? In a word … Read more
There has been some previous research that suggested that people who hold strong religious beliefs are more intuitive and less analytical, and when they think more analytically their religious beliefs decrease. This opens up an interesting question – are they born that way, or do they simply inherit this modality? It is a rather fundamental Nurture … Read more
In a week that has seen the revelations regarding Roy Moore ramp up and up, you do have to wonder if he is simply one lone isolated case that stands out as a contrast to the normal. Yes he is … in the sense that most people with or without a specific belief generally do … Read more
OK, so let’s cut to the chase and give you the quick TL;DR; answer – He will most probably continue and will most probably win. There is much I could of course say. Since a great deal of it is being churned over by the primary media outlets I need not dig into it all … Read more
The Psychologist Valerie Tarico wrote an interesting article in RawStory last Sept entitled … Here’s why right-wing Christians think they are America’s most persecuted In there she discusses the truly weird belief that a recent poll found within the right-wing belief community … A recent Pew study found that white American Evangelical Christians think they experience … Read more
Today I’ll focus down on one specific person – Jerry Falwell Jr. He has managed to go full Trump … literally. Some of what he has been saying and doing in the past week is quite frankly jaw dropping stuff that truly does deserve a bit of spotlighting, and so all three items this week are … Read more