If you polled 100 randomly chosen atheists and asked them to defend their (lack of) belief, it may be the “moral argument”(shown at left) that you’d hear most often.
If, in your mind, God is asking you to be a good person who uses the extraordinary intelligence He gave you and all of humankind, you’re going to have a tough time reconciling this issue.
In all honesty, I never considered myself patriotic until the coup attempt that began shortly after the 2020 election and continues today.
I always thought that patriotism was a juvenile and oversimplified approach to a complicated world, and that, more often than not, it lay behind bigotry, hatred, and a refusal to admit and deal with even our most obvious flaws as a people.
Now I really want my country back. The brush with autocracy we’re experiencing is far too close to the end of rule of law, and everything else this nation stands for.
Here’s a clever reminder that no country on the planet provides unfettered capitalism, nor pure communism.
Don’t look for this truth to come out of the GOP, which treats its voters like children who are incapable of any nuanced thinking.
We have Republicans saying, “The American people don’t want socialism,” or “The Democrats are ruled by leftist extremists.” Until recently, any high school freshman would have asked, “What are you talking about?”
Interesting perspective here.
Had Trump come along 10 years earlier, when most Americans still had the capacity to process information, he would have been met with a blend of about 10% anger and 90% ridicule.
Yet in 2016, he became the most powerful person on Earth.
As I covered in my recent post Alex Jones Goes on Trial in Huge Defamation Case, it appears that justice is on its way.
Well, we hope. This trial will be conducted in Texas, a state that is home to an uncountable number of far-right-wing nut-jobs. Let’s just find 12 jurors who can actually think.
As previously mentioned, ExxonMobil reported a net profit of $5.5 billion in Q1 this year, more than doubling its earnings from the first quarter of 2021.
The UK appears to have dealt with this fairly and effectively. They don’t have the problem we face here, i.e., their lawmaking processes aren’t owned by the fossil fuel industry.
From this: Jury selection is set for today in a trial that will finally determine how much Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the school shooting was a hoax.
Unfortunately, at least to date, Alex Jones faces no criminal charges, even though uncountable people have died as a result of decades of disinformation campaigns that cover everything from pandemic “cures” to the incitement of racial violence.
That said, bankrupting this sleazeball will go a long way to making our country a safer and more rational place to live.
I happen to know one of the parents who lost her six-year-old son at Sandy Hook. It breaks my heart that she was treated this way.
Adding bacon to an Impossible Burger?
This reminds me of people who drive electric Hummers. Those who are concerned about their carbon footprint would do well to choose a vehicle that doesn’t weigh 9000+ pounds.
It appears that the quest for truth surrounding the coup attempt has been dealt a harsh blow, in the form of the Secret Service’s conspiracy to destroy evidence.
It’s just another revelation that we live among some extremely sleazy people, in this case, traitors who betrayed their oath to protect our country and its constitution.
Most people cannot bring themselves to hunt animals for sport, though it’s idiotic to blame those who eat what they kill.
In any case, the guy here represents my personal sensibilities on the matter.
Love the cat.
