Joshua Harris – divorces, and abandons Christianity
Joshua Harris, who promoted “purity Culture” as your best bet for a long happy maggiage, has announced that he is separating from his wife.
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Poll: Decline of US confidence in Religion continues
The news comes via the publication of the latest Gallup poll. The title of their release is “U.S. Confidence in Organized Religion Remains Low“, but dive in and you find that this is a bit of a misleading title. It has actually declined even further. It has not simply remained low, but has continued to … Read more
Is Stiglers Law really true?
On this week’s episode of the “Skeptics Guide to the Universe” (Episode 730), they did a “Science or Fiction” quiz that was based upon Stiglers law. What is Stiglers law? University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler wrote a 1980 publication titled “Stigler’s law of eponymy“. Within this he states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. No … Read more
British Social Attitudes 36 Published
Once a year the British Social Attitudes data is released. The 2019 issue has been published and is now available. What does it tell us?
UK not prepared for Climate Change
The UK Government’s official climate advisers have just today (10th July) published their official progress report on UK preparations for climate change. I’ve known that this was coming, and so here it finally is. The tweet below is a quick unofficial and highly accurate reflection on it issued by one of the reviewers (and now … Read more
Weekly Weird Right-Wing Fundamentalist News: 7Jul19
Here is this week’s selection of the flow of weird that emminates from that blend of fundamentalist religion with right-wing politics.