Category Archives: Religion

Facebook Memes 19Sep21

Posted on Sunday 19 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From this past week, about philosophy, billionaires and Fox News, the flawed Ten Commandments, what expertise is about, fear the Covid plan will work, conspiracy theories defined, and a protestor’s spelling.

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Ls&Cs: Vaccine Regrets and Horse Paste

Posted on Friday 3 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Have a backlog of links, of course, with new ones now that Christians in Texas are coming closer to matching the achievement of the Taliban in Afghanistan. But for now, a trend of the past couple weeks: right-wing vaccine deniers … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Morality, Left and Right

Posted on Monday 23 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Two items recently that dovetail nicely.

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Ls&Cs This Past Month

Posted on Monday 16 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Too many to comment about in much detail.

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Ls&Cs: Steven Weinberg

Posted on Thursday 29 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The physicist Steven Weinberg died last week. He wasn’t as famous as Stephen Hawking, but he was arguably nearly as significant, succeeding several decades ago in unifying two of the four fundamental forces into one theoretical framework (the weak nuclear … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Changing Minds; Religions and Cults; Abortion; Wishful Thinking

Posted on Wednesday 14 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Catching up on some links from a few weeks ago.

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Links and Comments: Science, Religion, and Biases

Posted on Tuesday 20 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Neil deGrasse Tyson, creationists, religion and the intelligentsia, risk assessment. And tarantulas.

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Links and Comments: The Decline of US Church Membership

Posted on Friday 2 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

When I posted my notes about Michael Shermer’s book How We Believe, I noted that one of his principle observations was how, writing in 2000 or 1999, levels of religious belief hadn’t changed much since the 1960s, the era in … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Religious Matters, 27Mar21:

Posted on Saturday 27 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Jerry Coyne on David Brooks; Nicholas Kristof on progressive Christians; Evangelicals’ false doctrine.

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Thinking On Blog: Wise Men

Posted on Wednesday 17 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

(This is a blog post version of the process of “thinking out loud.”) In a book I read recently – it was Michael Shermer’s first book, WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS, my comments posted here) — the author made the … Continue reading →

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