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The latest salvo in the war on Darwin: a resurrection of Cartesian dualism, with the idea that the brain is a physical object, but the mind that inhabits it is made from some kind of ghostly Jesusite-235 that conclusively proves the existence of the Invisible Sky Daddy in a white robe and beard
Signs of despair, and retreat to the last frontier of science. Once Jeff Hawkins decodes the brain these bozos can go screw themselves.
The God-o-Meter scientifically measures factors such as rate of God-talk, effectiveness—saying God wants a capital gains tax cut doesn’t guarantee a high rating—and other top-secret criteria. Click a candidate’s head to get his or her latest God-o-Meter reading and blog post. And check back often. With so much happening on the campaign trail, God-o-Meter is constantly recalibrating!
hilarious and awful at the same time
why is there suffrage for morons?
A conservative Christian pastor is urging followers to load up on Microsoft stock, to force the company to “stop financing ungodly ventures.” “We’re not trying to hurt Microsoft or their shareholders, nor are we calling for a boycott of their products. We are trying to get Christians to buy their shares.” It’s unclear what effect, if any, the initiative could have on the stock price. It would be difficult to influence company direction — just to gain a 1% stake in Microsoft, 31m people would each have to spend $104 to buy 3 shares. Microsoft has 9.36b outstanding shares, and its largest holder is Chairman Bill Gates, with 858m shares, or 9%. Capital Research and Management Co. follows with 6%.
thump the bible too much and you fail at basic math like this guy
Ps 27:2 – When not “if” evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
When you’re governed as if you’re a banana republic, it’s little wonder that you behave as if you’re one.
A riot broke out at a soccer match in the Congo after 1 of the players was accused of using witchcraft. 13 people were killed
in africa, belief in witchcraft is still widespread. unbelievable.
people in useless professions try harder to put what they do in a greater spiritual or religious context. Obvious examples are scientology/buddhism/kaballa/”spirituality” for Hollywood types and evangelical Christianity for athletes.
religious diversity causes people to keep themselves to themselves, and thus makes it harder for them to catch germs from infidels.
And what it reveals should alarm anyone concerned with American biomedicine and its promise to improve human welfare. For this government-sponsored bioethics does not want medical practice to maximize health and flourishing; it considers that quest to be a bad thing, not a good thing.
To understand the source of this topsy-turvy value system, one has to look more deeply at the currents that underlie the Council. Although the Dignity report presents itself as a scholarly deliberation of universal moral concerns, it springs from a movement to impose a radical political agenda, fed by fervent religious impulses, onto American biomedicine.
“dignity” in bioethics is thinly veiled religious nonsense.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 