Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The Followers of Christ Church in Oregon embrace the belief that prayers are all you need. If your child becomes ill or sick, then just pray them better, no calling on doctors. What we learn via an article within The Oregonian (dated 2017) has been the consequence of this over the decades … Of 78 children … Read more
Ever wanted to be a teacher in Oklahoma? If so, then I do indeed have a test for you. However, this is not an ordinary test in any meaningful way at all, but instead is something else. OK, a quick reveal. This test is just ideology propaganda and has been created by the Prager University Foundation, for religious … Read more
A lawsuit filed by Lorraine Zielinski against the Grace Community Church in California, headed up by fundamentalist Pastor John MacArthur contain some truly jaw-dropping insights into what can best be described as a deeply controlling cult. Here briefly is Lorraine’s story In 2022, Lorraine Zielinski, a long-time member of Grace Community, turned to the church for … Read more
The “inspiration” for this posting is a segment via Fox & Friends. As we all know, Fox News is a “reliable” source of information, hence their segment on July 1 that covered a visit by co-host Ainsley Earhardt caught my eye. Side note: Yes, the air quotes there are doing rather a lot of heavy lifting … Read more
My title might indeed have invoked a few eye-rolls with the mixture of cargo-cult pseudoscience, all carefully wrapped up with a religious woo bow tie, and then encapsulated with a mention of the CIA, but hold fire on that, because there is something real in play here. So what have we got and where does … Read more
Like many other self-appointed “prophets”, Jeremiah Johnson proclaimed that God had decreed that Trump would win the 2020 election. Later, when the win failed to materialise, he was one of the few who issued a public apology, most of the others doubled down and insisted that he really had won but that the election had … Read more