Below are news articles that are of interest to Deists because they are related to religions, religious ideas, religious states, etc. Unfortunately, currently there are not a lot of articles strictly about Deism. As Deism and the World Union of Deists continue to grow, that will change. If you know of a news article that would be of interest to Deists, please email a link to it to deism@deism.com This page is updated every Monday through Friday. Thank you!
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November
November 25, 2024
Judaism is the foundation of all of the man-made Abrahamic "revealed" religions, which includes Christianity, Islam, Mormonism and Baha'i. This article, about a recent archeological find of an ancient amulet, inadvertently reveals some of the nonsense in the foundational Judaism as it relates to King Solomon and demons.
Sunni Muslim terrorists belonging to the Sunni Islamic terror organization of Islamic State in Mozambique have captured and killed four Christians in northern Cabo Delgado Province. The Christians had their throats slit by the Muslim terrorists. If people seriously adopted Thomas Paine's Deistic principle of detesting cruelty, the "revealed" religions would cease to exist.
The "democratic" Jewish state of Israel is now boycotting the daily newspaper Haaretz. They are trying to shutdown Haaretz because Haaretz openly criticizes the Jewish state's war on Gaza, which to date has killed over 44,000 Palestinians, the majority of who are children and women.
November 22, 2024
Texas education officials have today voted to approve Christian Bible-based lessons for public school students in K-5. The Bible courses are not mandatory, but schools that use the Bible lessons will receive $60 per student.
In Lucerne, Switzerland there is a church with an AI Jesus. The named AI Jesus Deus in Machina. Over a two-month period, a little over 1,000 people have spoken with the AI Jesus. The responses from those people are mixed.
Here's an interesting and informative article about whether or not Jesus should be considered a Palestinian or a Jew. Religiously, Jesus was a Jew who believed the ungodly and cruel Torah was the Word of God.
November 21, 2024
"Today the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and dealing an extraordinary blow to Israel’s global standing as it presses on with wars on multiple fronts."
19 brave US senators have voted to withhold deadly ammunition from the Jewish state of Israel due to Israel's slaughter of over 44,000 Palestinian civilians, half of whom are women and children, in Gaza. Going against Israel's very wealthy and powerful lobby is putting their political careers on the line. They are true profiles in courage.
Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister of Israel, said that Israel taking responsibility for distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza will lead to Israel occupying Gaza.
November 20, 2024
"Texas’ education board on Tuesday advanced a new Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for schools to incorporate in kindergarten through fifth grades, one of the latest Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms."
William Branham was a Pentecostal preacher who built up a huge following in the 1940s and 1950s. He wanted to buy a plane so he could reach people everywhere for Jesus. When he died, his faith-based, not God-given reason-based, followers got the money together and bought a plane believing that Branham would come back to life and fly the plane! He didn't, he remained dead, in spite of Christian Bible promises of Christians being able to do all that Jesus did, plus even more than that. As the Deist Benjamin Franklin wrote, "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of Reason."
In Afghanistan, the Sunni Muslim terrorist organization that runs the country, the Taliban, are going through books and banning books they deem to be in conflict with Islamic values.
November 19, 2024
Christian theocrat Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters purchased Christian Bibles outside of the normal bidding process in order to get Christian Bibles into Oklahoma's public schools. Walters purchased 532 copies of Donald Trump's Bible, which includes the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Bible purchase cost just under $25,000. If it had gone over $25,000 a bidding process would have been required by law. He'll probably do this several more times in order to have a Christian Bible in every public school classroom without bidding.
Here's an interesting article about a Christian Palestinian woman who lives in the Israeli occupied West Bank. She's trying to stop the Jewish state from stealing her family home and land.
Pope Francis is calling for an investigation into charges that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Genocide committed by the Jewish state of Israel should not be surprising for anyone familiar with the Hebrew Bible.
November 18, 2024
Here's an important and great article that is very informative and insightful regarding how and why Israel's lobby has power over the USA via America's politicians from both parties.
A month ago, the Biden administration warned Israel that the Jewish state had one month to ensure more aid was getting into Gaza, or Biden would withhold some of the weapons and ammunition being sent to Israel so they can continue their slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The month is up, and Israel is not allowing enough aid into Gaza. In spite of this, Biden will not do what he said he'd do, withholding US weapons and ammunition from Israel.
Texas education officials are expected to hold a vote very soon on the use of Bible readings in the public school curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade English and language arts classes. The theocrats of the religious right never tire in the efforts to turn the US into a Christian theocracy.
November 15, 2024
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream are suing their parent company, Unilever, charging that Unilever is preventing them from supporting Palestinian refugees and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
In order to follow the myths of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, and to make room for housing for Jews, Israeli authorities on Thursday completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by members of the country's Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plans.
There's a new Bible that shows promises in the Bible are false. The new Bible is the Grace Bible. It has a special font that helps people with dyslexia read the Grace Bible. This is another reality which shows the promise in the Christian Bible at John 14:12-14, in which Jesus promises that people who believe in him will get whatever they ask for if they pray for it in Jesus' name. I'm sure at least one Christian with dyslexia as prayed to be healed of it, but to no avail.
November 14, 2024
The US based Human Rights Watch released a report that shows the Jewish state of Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. The war crimes include ordering Palestinians to leave an area and then shooting them as they're leaving.
The New Apostolic Reformation is an organization of Christian theocrats who work to turn the US into a Christian Bible-based nation. They are elated that Donald Trump won the US presidential election. They see Trump as God’s warrior in their battle to win America from satanic forces and Christianize it.
In Rome, Roman Catholic bishops, priests, religious, and laymen and laywomen are meeting to discuss sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Europe. One of the topics for discussion is how Church law and civil law interact. Church law should not be any part of it. It should only be civil law in which pedophile priests are put in prison.
November 13, 2024
Donald Trump's pick for US ambassador to the Jewish state of Israel is the Christian theocrat, Mike Huckabee. Huckabee 100% believes the Bible the ancient Jews wrote is the Word of God. He is therefore in favor of Israel taking all the land that belongs to Palestinians because he falsely believes God gave that land to the Jews for a Jewish state that will last forever. Like Joe Biden, Huckabee is a Zionist.
Oklahoma State Department of Education Superintendent Ryan Walters said he plans to open an office within the Oklahoma State Department of Education dedicated to religious freedom. He is naming it the Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism and said he will cooperate with Donald Trump's efforts in the White House to turn the US into a Christian theocracy.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will be voting on a new Bible. This interesting article gives a glimpse of who the Christian Bible became the Word of God for Christians.
November 12, 2024
Here's an interesting and informative article that makes it very clear that the Jewish state of Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Since US politicians from both parties supply Israel with 69% of its military weapons, those politicians are guilty of enabling Israel's genocide.
Last month the Biden administration gave an ultimatum to Israel: either surge food, medicine and other aid into Gaza or the US will stop sending some of the weapons and ammunition it is giving to the Jewish state. Today is the cutoff date. Israel ignored the ultimatum and is still receiving billions of dollars' worth of American weapons and ammunition.
The Christian theocrats in Louisiana passed a law that required the 10 Commandments from the Torah/Hebrew Bible, which Christians coopted as the Old Testament, to be posted in all public schools across the state. Thankfully, today a federal judge blocked the theocratic law because it is unconstitutional.
November 11, 2024
The ungodly and cruel Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament is alive and well in Gaza! The Israeli military has killed over 43,500 people in Gaza, 70% of whom were children and women. Just last night, Israeli tank crews fired into a Palestinian refugee camp and killed over 30 people.
The war pig George W. Bush started the unnecessary Iraq War which killed an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,492 members of the US military and left 32,392 US military members wounded. The Iraq War was started for the security of the Jewish state of Israel. Now W says people need more religion. It was religion that caused the Iraq War, and which is the cause of the violence going on now in the Middle East.
World-first stem-cell treatment restores vision in people! The stem-cells are taken from the patient's blood and are reprogrammed to work in the eye. The treatment was done on four people with damaged corneas. Three of the four have gone a year with improved vision and one person did not improve their vision.
November 8, 2024
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was banned in India when it was released over 30 years ago. Now, it's come to the attention of the Indian government that the official order to censor the book cannot be found. A court ruled that the ban of The Satanic Verses is no longer valid, which opens the possibility that it will be imported in India. Hopefully, this will not cause Muslims to start religious violent riots.
In some good news for people who want to keep Thomas Jefferson's wall of separation of church and state, voters in three states in recent elections have voted against school voucher programs that give tax dollars to religious schools.
When the United Methodist Church (UMC) decided to ignore the teachings in its Christian Bible regarding gay people and accepted gay couples and gay people into its clergy, 7,500 local churches split from the UMC. One such breakaway church recently agreed to pay $1.4 million to leave the UMC.
November 7, 2024
Occupation forces of the Jewish state of Israel invaded the French-owned Eleona church compound in Israeli occupied Jerusalem. The armed Jewish bullies briefly detained two gendarmes, which prompted French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot to abandon a scheduled visit. The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said,"I will not enter the Eleona Domain today, because Israeli security forces entered with weapons, without prior French authorization, without agreeing to leave today." The foreign ministry in Paris later said Israel's ambassador would be summoned over the incident.
In Alabama, Imam Wisam Sharieff, an online Quranic instructor for the educational nonprofit AlMaghrib Institute has been arrested for conspiracy to produce child pornography. A woman who was an online student of Sharieff's said the imam told her “that achieving an orgasm would help her spiritually and allow her to communicate with Allah better.” "The woman reportedly sent Sharieff videos of herself and her minor daughter 'performing sexual acts on themselves' so he 'could guide them and let them know how far they were progressing on their quest to become closer to Allah.'”
Here's an interesting article about the theocrats in the religious right who have plans of using Donald Trump, now that he'll be back in the White House, to change US laws so they are more in tune with their interpretation of biblical laws. The article quotes a "progressive" Christian clergyman of the religious left, Sean W. Rowe, the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, as saying, “We are Christians who support the dignity, safety, and equality of women and LGBTQ+ people as an expression of our faith. I pray that President Trump and his administration will do the same.” Rowe must not be familiar with his own Christian Bible which is strongly misogynistic (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) and violently anti-gay (Leviticus 20:13).
November 6, 2024
Kamala Harris lost the US presidential election to Donald Trump. One of the groups who refused to vote for her were Muslims. This is because Harris and her boss Joe Biden have refused to put real pressure on the Jewish state of Israel to force Israel to stop its ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza. In fact, Harris refused to allow a Palestinian to speak at the Democratic Convention. Like the overwhelming vast majority of US politicians from both parties, Donald Trump is beholden to the Jewish state. However, Trump doesn't pretend, as Harris and the Democrats to, that they care about the Palestinians who are being annihilated by Israel.
In England, Pete MacDonald, a new age tarot card reader and psychic consultant, performed an exorcism on a lady. He convinced her that she had to be naked in order for the evil spirits to be able to leave her body. He ended up sexually assaulting her. She went to police and the police arrested MacDonald. Any time we turn our backs on our gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of innate reason, we run a very high chance that bad things will happen. As the Deist Benjamin Franklin pointed out, "Hear Reason or she'll make you feel her."
Conservative television personality Tucker Carlson recently claims on camera that he was physically attacked by a demon or demons. They allegedly left scratch marks on Carlson. This ungodly and foolish article attempts to explain why demons do these things, and it uses the nonsense in the Christian Bible that claims Jesus exorcises many demons from many people. These claims are so stupid they are funny! However, they also can have real world deadly consequences as is seen in the case of four-year-old Jessica Mast whose Christian parents and her parent's Christian friends believed she was possessed by a demon and needed an exorcism. They killed Jessica during the exorcism.
November 5, 2024
A law firm’s investigation of sexual abuse allegations against the pastor of one of the largest Christian Evangelical churches, Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas, has caused four church elders to resign. The investigation is centered around pastor Robert Morris who repeatedly sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s.
The Jewish state of Israel is continuing its devastating targeting of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza. Their attacks with American weapons and ammunition which US politicians from both parties give them at American taxpayer expense, are killing children who are only days old. This ungodly brutality is straight out of Judaism's Hebrew Bible, which the Christians call the Old Testament.
Here's an important and informative article about the root causes of the war on Gaza. It is grounded in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament. God gave us reason, not religion!
November 4, 2024
This interesting article is about self-proclaimed witches who are casting spells to prevent Donald Trump from winning the election and Christians who are praying for Donald Trump to be elected. Both are based on irrational superstitions.
Indigenous people from around the world came to Jerusalem to show support for Jews and to claim the Jews are not colonizing Palestine. This, in spite of the fact that there was not a Jewish nation in that area for almost 2,000 years and in spite of the fact that the Jews, according to their Hebrew Bible, took the land and slaughtered the indigenous Canaanites to settle in Canaan, specifically groups like the Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, Jebusites, and Perizzites, according to Joshua in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament.
Donald Trump, due to his actions in favor of the Jewish state of Israel, such as moving the US Embassy to illegally occupied Jerusalem and pulling the US out of the nuclear agreement with Iran and several other nations, has been compared to Cyrus the Great, the Persian leader who allowed the Jews to return to what was once Israel. Now, some theocratic clergymen in the religious right are comparing Trump to the Jewish King Jehu, who killed Jezebel.
November 1, 2024
Dan Reehil is a Roman Catholic priest and the exorcist for the Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee. To help to see how foolish the Roman Catholic Church is, along with the belief in Satan, demons and exorcisms, Reehil claims that one thing he always brings along with him when he performs exorcisms is a piece of the cross that Jesus was crucified on! LOL! In reality, no one knows what happened to that cross, let alone have a relic from it. It's interesting to note that rabbis claim in the Talmud that Jesus was not crucified by the Romans, he was executed by the Jews as a heretic (Jesus in the Talmud).
"A monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time would eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare purely by chance, according to the Infinite Monkey Theorem." This theorem has been proven false by mathematicians.
Hypatia was a brilliant and beautiful mathematician and astronomer in Alexandria, Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. The Christians considered her to be a Pagan because she rejected Christianity. In March of 415 CE, the Christians brutally killed her. History recorded her death, but not her birth. Mathematicians have now discovered how to determine when Hypatia was born. The process they developed can be applied to all historic figures whose birth date is unknown.
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October
October 31, 2024
Israeli intelligence believe Iran will soon launch an attack against the Jewish state of Israel from Iraq. Before the US invaded Iraq for Israel's benefit, the largely secular Ba'ath Party and Sadaam Hussein ruled Iraq. After the Ba'ath Party and Sadaam Hussein were overthrown by the US, Shiite Muslims, who are the majority in Iraq, took over the government. Iran is also Shiite Islamic and is a natural ally with Iraq.
Today is Halloween. This informative and interesting article is about dogs being accused of helping witches in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century. Among other things, the article tells of a woman in her 70s, Susanna Martin, who was accused of being a witch who made a black dog appear to a man when he was in the woods. He testified that he was terrified by the dog and that after he started praying, the dog disappeared. Susanna Martin was hanged the next day for being a witch! If you believe the Bible, you must also believe that witches who can cast spells and conjure up animals or whatever else they want are real. Thankfully, God gave us reason, not religion. All we have to do is actually use it!
Don't forget to tell your family and friends about the Bible's zombies! The anonymous author of the Gospel of Matthew wrote about them at Matthew 27:50-53. The more people we tell about the Bible zombies, the more people who will probably begin to question the false claim that the Christian Bible is the Word of God.
October 30, 2024
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is not so united. An exodus of many churches from the Christian sect is causing problems for the UMC. The United Methodist Judicial Council, the sect's highest court, released a ruling that congregations seeking to leave the denomination over theological differences cannot do so via a church closure provision.
Peruvian Roman Catholic theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez is the father of liberation theology. Liberation theology is an attempt to make Christianity more caring for poor people and is popular with the religious left. Since the Christian Bible is strongly ambiguous, it's possible for anyone to make it mean whatever they want it to mean. As Thomas Paine pointed out in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, "...the Bible decides nothing, because it decides any way, and every way, one chooses to make it."
US politicians from both parties take billions of tax dollars from American taxpayers every year and give them to the Jewish state of Israel. They also send billions of dollars' worth of US weapons and ammunition to Israel. There are now over 500 reports of those US weapons and ammunition being used by Israel to kill Palestinian civilians, including children, in Gaza. The Biden administration has failed to comply with its own policies requiring swift investigations of such claims.
October 29, 2024
“We are calling upon pastors to envision a generation of ambassadors for Jesus Christ, molded through Christian education.” That is the goal of Christian clergy who promote school voucher programs, according to Larry Taylor, the president of the Association of Christian Schools International. Christian clergy do not want to pay taxes, yet they want tax dollars to pay for Christian schools that indoctrinate children into nonsensical Christianity. It's not right for people who do not believe in Christianity to pay Christian schools via their tax dollars through school voucher programs.
"Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work." This cruelty should not surprise anyone who is familiar with the ungodly and barbaric "holy" book of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible which the Jewish state of Israel is based on. The ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, claim God gave all the land the Palestinians own to the Jews for a Jewish state. It also claims God wants Israel to rule the world (Deuteronomy 28:1 which claims God told the Jews "...the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:")
Scientists in Sweden conducted a 30-year experiment with snails. The snails demonstrated that evolution is a reality. Here's an article that asks if evolution demonstrates purpose in nature and life.
October 28, 2024
Here's an insightful article about the US playing second fiddle to the Jewish state of Israel regarding US foreign policy in the Middle East. Joe Biden, and virtually all US politicians from both major parties know not to cross Israel due to Israel's very powerful lobby.
“There is no reason or impediment that should prevent women from carrying out leadership roles in the Church..." This quote is from the 52-page final statement on the just completed summit of the Roman Catholic Church. It ignores reasons from the Christian Bible the Catholic Church claims is the Word of God. For just one example of many, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 teaches, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
Here's an informative article/letter regarding Oklahoma's current push to put Christian Bibles in classrooms. The article brings out the fact that America was not founded as a Christian nation. This important fact is ignored by the Christian theocrats.
October 25, 2024
The Jewish state of Israel is keeping the Hebrew Bible alive and well in Gaza. The brutality from the pages of the Hebrew Bible are seen in this video of Palestinian civilians being bombed and shelled in northern Gaza. The Biden administration is helping Israel to slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza by supplying the weapons and ammunition to the Jewish state.
The Sunni Muslim terrorist organization that controls Afghanistan, the Taliban, believe it's anti-Islamic to show pictures and videos of living things. They are making it illegal for television stations to air pictures and videos of people, animals and any and all living things. We need to end the evil that is the "revealed" religions through reason and honest and open examination of the "revealed" religions.
Yuval Harari is an Israeli professor who believes the Bible should be rewritten. He points out the fact that the Bible contains both factual and moral mistakes. It would be better simply to let go of the Bible, and of the Quran and Book of Mormon, and rely on our innate God-given reason and conscience.
October 24, 2024
"Revealed" religions make people do some crazy things. This is seen in Panama where thousands of Roman Catholics crawl on their knees to a painting of the Black Christ of Portobelo hoping to receive miracles. In the Philippines, Roman Catholics reenact the alleged crucifixion of Jesus by having some of them actually crucified. In Shia Islam many of the faithful inflict self-flagellation on themselves with chains and swords. All of this makes me even more grateful that I am a Deist!
During Sunday services at the megachurch of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, a protester who was protesting by walking around the church parking lot with signs that read "How much is Pastor Ed making?" and “Ed, what’s your housing allowance today?,” was arrested for trespassing. Ed Clark is the millionaire pastor of Grapevine. Back in 2010 he was being paid $1 million a year plus a housing allowance of $240,000.00 a year. The wealthy clergy must not believe their own Bible which claims Jesus said it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to go to heaven.
The Roman Catholic Church often is criticized for refusing to ordain women. Here are three short letters, two from former Catholic clergy and one from an active Anglican clergyman which address the issue of ordaining women. If you keep in mind the misogynistic teachings in the Christian Bible which clearly teaches against women having any kind of authority in a church, it is clear that any Christian church that refuses to ordain women are biblically correct. One such teaching from the Christian Bible is 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 which states, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
October 23, 2024
A key part of genocide is starvation. That was the primary weapon of the Communists against Ukranian people from 1929 -1933, in which an estimated 14 million people were killed by the Communists of the USSR. (See The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest) The Jewish state of Israel is using starvation/terror-famine against the people of Gaza. Over the last year, Israel has blocked over 250,000 aid trucks from entering Gaza. The only thing Israel understands is force, as is seen by an incident between a US Marine captain who stood down three Israeli tanks during Israel's 1983 invasion of Lebanon.
Israeli officials constantly claim Hamas and Hezbollah have bunkers under hospitals and schools. Most recently Israeli military officials claimed Hezbollah has a bunker under Al-Sahel hospital in southern Beirut, Lebanon. Israel claims Hezbollah uses the bunker to store hundreds of millions of dollars in cash along with gold. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said US officials have not seen any evidence of it. Hospital officials also deny Israel's claim.
"Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born of solidarity with poor and marginalized people, died on Tuesday at a convent in Lima, Peru. He was 96." Liberation theology picks the nice things the anonymous authors of the Christian Gospels claim Jesus said, while ignoring the ungodly teachings attributed to Jesus in the Gospels, such as Luke 19:27 which Jesus/the anonymous author claims Jesus said that God will say, "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."
October 22, 2024
US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris was prayed over at a megachurch in Georgia on Sunday. The preacher compared Harris to Esther from the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament. This is similar to Donald Trump be prayed over by Christian clergy and Israel saying he is the modern-day Cyrus, the Persian king who allowed the Jews to return to Israel.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel today, allegedly to pressure Israeli PM Netanyahu to allow food, water, medicine, and other vitally important humanitarian aid into Gaza. HOWEVER, the official Israeli summary of the Blinken-Netanyahu meeting made no mention of humanitarian aid for the territory.
Kentucky has an amendment on the November ballot that would create a school voucher program. School vouchers use tax dollars to pay for students' private school tuition. Most of the private schools are Christian schools, making school vouchers a violation of the US Constitution and its Jeffersonian principle of separation of church and state. Currently 29 states and the District of Columbia have unconstitutional school voucher programs.
October 21, 2024
The Roman Catholic International Association of Exorcists have released a book co-authored by the Association’s Vice President, Father Francesco Bamonte, and spokesperson Alberto Castaldini: The Dark Charm of Halloween. It warns the faithful that Halloween originally was a pagan celebration, and that Catholic Christians should not wear costumes of witches, etc., but should instead dress up as saints!
Former Roman Catholic priest Humbeto Gama from Sanrarem, Portugal, has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman while he was performing an exorcism at his home. He's been performing exorcisms at his home for 13 consecutive years.
Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, was attacked Saturday night by the military of the Jewish state of Israel. At least 73 Palestinians in the highly populated town were killed. More than 100 people were wounded and several are missing.
October 18, 2024
Here's an interesting, informative and insightful article about the history of blasphemy laws in the US.
This article exposes the pure nonsense of the Biden administration writing a letter to Israeli PM Netanyahu threatening to cut Israel off from the billions of dollars-worth of weapons and ammunition if they don't stop blocking humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza. The letter was probably sent to help Harris win support from Palestinian American voters as well as from people in general who are opposed to supporting the Jewish state in its ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The number of people Israel has killed is currently at over 42,000!
As doctors who've served in Gaza often state, Israeli snipers shoot and kill Palestinian civilians. Some of the Israeli military snipers have dual citizenship in America, Belgum and other nations. The Belgum justice department is now investigating an Israeli sniper from Belgum for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
October 17, 2024
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, California has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of pedophile Catholic priests. The brings the total of the amount the diocese pays to sexual assault victims to $1.5 billion.
The United Nations and the Lebanese authorities say that over 1,000,000 people have fled southern Lebanon due to the Jewish state of Israel's massive and deadly assault of southern Lebanon. Many of the refugees go to Beirut for safety for their families. Unfortunately, Israel has already started bombing Beirut in spite of US opposition.
"A group of Oklahoma parents of public school students, teachers and ministers filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the state's top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 through 12."
October 16, 2024
Deists know full well the ungodly cruelty and brutality of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament. This thought-provoking, informative and moving essay written by an American doctor who volunteered to help people in Gaza makes it very clear that the brutality of the Hebrew Bible is alive and well in the Israeli military.
Two American human rights activists were arrested by Israeli Occupation Forces in what Israel refers to as Samaria and Judea, its Hebrew Bible name, but what the rest of the 21st century world refers to as the Palestinian West Bank. The Americans will be deported.
The Jewish state of Israel usually tries to strengthen ties with Christians who believe they will avoid being burned in hell for eternity because of their Jewish savior, Jesus. However, Israel has just bombed Lebanon's Christian heartland in northern Lebanon.
October 15, 2024
Genocide Joe Biden told the Jewish state of Israel to stop blocking food, water, medicine and other aid from reaching the besieged people in Gaza. He claims that if they do not allow aid into Gaza, the US will withhold the billions of dollars' worth of weapons and ammunition it's sending to Israel. Israeli officials are probably still laughing! They know Biden and the vast majority of US politicians are beholden to their very wealthy and powerful Israel lobby for their political careers.
In Hong Kong, a Taoist exorcist was found guilty "of murdering an intellectually impaired woman, while the victim's mother was convicted of aiding and abetting the indecent assault against her daughter." They killed the woman while performing an exorcism on her because of their superstition-based belief in demons.
Spanish researchers claim they have DNA from explorer Christopher Columbus. The said Columbus' DNA shows he was Jewish. How can there be DNA based on religion? Are Jews a religion or a race or both?
October 14, 2024
Retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton is warning that the Biden administration's decision to send approximately 100 US troops to Israel to operate the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery to shield the Jewish state against further Iranian aerial attacks is very risky. He said if any American troops are wounded or killed, it will draw the US into a war with Iran. That's probably the plan for Israeli leaders and their neocon warmongering partners in the US government.
With Halloween coming soon, here's an interesting and informative article about the deadly Christian witch trials and executions in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century. When religion and government are mixed together, ungodly and horrific things happen!
Outside the Catholic St. Mary Cathedral in Linz, Austria there is a lifelike statue of the "Virgin" Mary giving birth to Jesus. The statue has upset the faithful to the point of it being vandalized.
October 11, 2024
Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris has spoken out against the Jewish state of Israel's recent deadly attacks on United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon. He said the attacks are a breach of international law and are "really dangerous, despicable attacks on peacekeepers".
The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed a commission to investigate Israel and Hamas of human rights violations. Their report stated in part, "The Commission finds that Israel has implemented a concerted policy to destroy the health-care system of Gaza. Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of willful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination." The commission also accuse both Israel as well as armed Palestinian groups of subjecting prisoners to torture and sexual violence.
"Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them." This is good news, since a war using nuclear weapons would destroy life on Earth. As Albert Einstein pointed out, "The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them . . . . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive."
October 8, 2024
The US politicians from both parties have taken from Americans and given to the Jewish state of Israel $17.9 BILLION in American tax dollars over the last 12 months! The Biden administration used bureaucratic maneuvering to hide the amount of American taxpayer dollars it was sending to Israel.
Last Saturday there was an earthquake in Iran. The earthquake hit five days after Iran launched 200 ballistic missiles into Israel. Now some rabbis are stating that this may be a sign that God is joining the war on the side of the Jewish state of Israel!
Here's an interesting and thought-provoking article about the James Webb Space Telescope sending us data that shows the universe is probably much older than astronomers previously thought. There is a very good chance that the universe is infinite and eternal.
(Due to hurricane Milton heading our way, there will probably not be any news update for a few days, as it's very probable that we will love our electric power.)
October 7, 2024
In Oklahoma, where the Christian theocrat and the superintendent of the state Department of Education Ryan Walters wants every classroom in Oklahoma public schools to have a Christian Bible, the specifications for the bible were released for bids. "Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material." This is exactly like the Bible Donald Trump was selling! It is estimated the bibles will cost Oklahoma taxpayers over $3 million.
Jerry Falwell, Jr., who was kicked out of the Christian Liberty University that was founded by his father and is a central part of the theocratic religious right, because he and his wife had three-way-sex with their pool boy, among other reasons, is not back at Liberty University. His return is making some Christians very upset as this article makes clear.
"The Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, which claims to represent the modern-day Knights Templar, has recently filed a new reconciliation lawsuit against Pope Francis." The lawsuit goes back to 1312 when Pope Clement V dissolved the Knights Templar!
October 4, 2024
Evangelical Christian pastor Loran Livingston has attacked Donald Trump's Bible, which Trump was selling earlier this year for $59.99. Livingston called Trump's Bible "blasphemous" and "disgusting."
Democrats have used a method called ballot harvesting to get Democrats elected to political office. Now, Christian conservatives are doing the same. Ballot harvesting by Christian conservatives involves church members bringing their completed mail-in ballots to church, where they are collected by volunteers who then deliver them the next day to election officials.
Since 2006, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, the state’s only diocese, has settled 67 lawsuits regarding pedophile priests raping and sexually molesting children. The Catholic Diocese paid a total of $34 million to victims of the pedophile priests. They are now facing 31 additional cases from victims. This has caused the Catholic Diocese to file for bankruptcy. "Celeste Laramie, an attorney representing about a third of the plaintiffs in the lawsuits, said the filing 'is more reflective of moral bankruptcy than actual financial bankruptcy, particularly in light of the estimated $500 million of assets it has attempted to hide from survivors of its sexual abuse.'”
October 3, 2024
Joe Biden said the US is discussing with the Jewish state of Israel the possibility that Israel will bomb Iran's oil facilities. This would be in retaliation of Iran firing over 180 ballistic missiles into Israel. That was done in retaliation of Israel assassinating via bombings Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Brig-Gen Abbas Nilforoushan. The news about Israel bombing Iranian oil facilities has caused a 5% jump in oil prices. Oil prices will go up a huge amount if Israel does bomb Iran's oil facilities.
Tzedek Chicago is a Jewish congregation that is anti-Zionism. Its leaders and members speak out against the slaughter and land theft/occupation the Jewish state of Israel inflicts on the Palestinians. One thing that is difficult to understand is that Zionism is a huge part of the religious violence between Israel and its neighbors, but so is Judaism which also promotes the idea that all of the land being occupied and fought for is a gift from God to the Jews for a Jewish state.
"An appeals court has ruled that a multisite Evangelical church in Michigan cannot be exempt from paying taxes on a property meant to serve as a retreat and recreation space." The court stated the reason for their decision is because the land and building are not used to teach the church's religion. Why teachings religion/superstition would qualify for a tax-exemption is beyond reason. All of the religious property should be taxed.
October 2, 2024
"Israeli strikes killed at least 51 people in southern Gaza overnight, including women and children, as the military launched ground operations in the hard-hit city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medical officials said Wednesday." With Israel invading Lebanon and stepping up the violence in its occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem, they're still killing children, women and men in Gaza.
Here's an in-depth and informative article about two billionaire Christian preachers in Texas have brought Christian theocracy to much of Texas and who are now working to do the same for the rest of America.
"The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, has covered a sky area of 50 square degrees, similar to approximately 250 full moons." PAUS was able to map precise locations of more than one million galaxies. The universe, which we are all a part of, is wonderfully amazing!
October 1, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the United Nations. He called for the UN to use force against the Jewish state of Israel in order to stop Israel from its slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon.
In Italy, the case of a mother and her two sons being killed during an exorcism has taken a turn against the defendants.
Here's a beautiful, thought-provoking and inspiring video of 4,000 galaxies taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The universe truly is a wonderful, fascinating and amazing reality!
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September
September 30, 2024
Here's an informative and insightful article about the current spread of religious-based violence in the Middle East. It offers an idea for peace in the "holy" land that, in reality, is the only way forward towards peace.
Israel and Lebanon have been exchanging rocket fire since October 8, 2023 when the Jewish state invaded Gaza. They invaded Gaza because of Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas attacked Israel because of Israel's brutal and expanding illegal occupation of Palestinian land. Israel is stealing Palestinian land because of belief in the ancient myths of Judaism in the Torah and Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament that claim God gave all of that land to the Jews for a Jewish state. Now it looks like Israel is going to soon launch a ground invasion of Lebanon.
"European, Arab and Islamic nations have launched an initiative to strengthen support for a Palestinian state and its institutions, and prepare for a future after the war in Gaza and escalating conflict in Lebanon, Norway’s foreign minister said Friday." It will be interesting to see if anything substantial happens with this important effort.
September 27, 2024
One thing both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have in common is undying loyalty to the Jewish state of Israel. They not only do not meaningfully ever question Israel's ongoing war crimes, or the BILLIONS of American tax dollars taken from Americans and given to Israel, they brag about what they do for the foreign Jewish state of Israel. Donald Trump recently said if he's elected president, he will make Israel great again! The article incorrectly states that Trump is “America’s First Zionist President.” In reality, Joe Biden beat him to it!
Here's an interesting and insightful article about Joe Biden and other Western leaders who claim they want peace in the "holy" land while sending huge amounts of weapons and ammunition to Israel as it continues its warmongering, Hebrew Bible-based ways.
Clergymen at Gateway Church, a megachurch in Texas, don't like to be questioned about their lack of transparency. Valentina Hansen found this out when she met with leading clergymen of Gateway Church, asking questions about a pedophile clergyman the church employs as well as asking about finances. The clergymen revoked her membership and had armed guards escort her off of church property. I bet the clergymen are big fans of 1 Corinthians 14:34 which teaches, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law."
September 26, 2024
The religious violence going on between the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza and in the Palestinian West Bank is spreading to Lebanon. Israeli officials have wanted for decades the US to start a war against Iran. The current increase in religious violence may make that nightmare become a reality.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is suing the tax-exempt religious organization, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (TBGEA), for publishing in its magazine an article promoting Donald Trump over Camela Harris in the US presidential election. As a tax-exempt organization, TBGEA cannot be involved in politics.
"At its 2024 synod in June, the Christian Reformed Church instructed LGBTQ-affirming congregations to repent and comply with the denomination’s beliefs on sexuality. Some are now choosing to leave." It's impossible to understand how people who believe the Bible is the Word of God can be gay affirming. The Bible, at Leviticus 20:13, clearly has God commanding the faithful to kill gay men. It states, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
September 25, 2024
After the Jewish state of Israel's prolonged destruction of Gaza started, Hezbollah in Lebanon started firing missiles into northern Israel in an attempt to counter what Israel was doing in Gaza. Now it looks like Israel is getting ready to invade Lebanon again (they invaded Lebanon in 1982 which spurred the creation of Hezbollah and again invaded in 2006). This is slowing down the killings and destruction Israel inflicts on Gaza and its people. Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said since Israel has been dealing with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the number of Israeli bombings in Gaza has dropped from over 15 per day to around four per day. Israeli officials are not worried about starting too many wars at one time as they know US politicians will send American troops to fight for the Jewish state. After all, the US politicians from both parties started the Iraq War for Israel's benefit and for the political rewards they get from Israel's lobby.
Here's a great letter to the editor regarding US politicians who talk about putting America first while they take millions of dollars from the Israel lobby to put Israel first.
The Christian based and promoting Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC "unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered." It contains the central part of Judaism, the text of the Haggadah which is recited at Seder on the first two nights of Passover, as well as Jewish prayers, poems and other writings. The book is only 1,300 years old.
September 24, 2024
Christian's savior, who they believe will prevent God from burning them in hell and who will allow them to spend eternity in heaven, is the Jew Jesus. The Jewishness of Jesus compels many Christians to feel beholden to Jews and to the Jewish state of Israel. This is seen when Christians promote Israel and Israel's theft of land from the Palestinians. Recently the Jewish and Christian organization, Keep God's Land, which promotes the false and bible-based idea that God gave all of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and Palestinian East Jerusalem to the Jews for a Jewish state, held an event at Regent University. Regent University is a Christian university that was started by the Christian conman/clergyman, the now decease Pat Robertson. Belief in this biblical myth is the reason there is so much religious violence in the "Holy" Land.
In Iowa, Judge Jonathan Gallagher ruled in favor of a Christian church regarding the church's tax exemption for the real estate it owns. He said his decision was based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It's hypocritical for religions not to pay property tax while at the same time enjoying the benefits property taxes help to make available, such as fire and police protection, and even paramedics for faith healers!
Ohio is giving over $5 million in tax dollars to 11 private schools. Eight of the 11 schools are Christian schools. This is a direct violation of the Jeffersonian principle of separation of religion from government. They're receiving the millions of tax dollars via the state's school voucher program.
September 20, 2024
Last week in Pakistan, a policeman shot and killed a man suspected of blasphemy against Mohammed and Islam and who was in police custody. Yesterday in Pakistan, police shot and killed a doctor who was accused of blasphemy against Islam and Mohammed. Police claim it was in a shootout with the blasphemer and another person. People in a crowd threw flower pedals towards the police for killing a blasphemer. Islam, and any religion that has blasphemy rules and laws, is very weak, otherwise they would welcome debate and not hide from it through the threat of blasphemy.
Here's an interesting article about Ruwa Romman, a Palestinian American who is a member of the Georgia legislature. She, along with all other Palestinians who wanted to speak at the recent not so democratic Democratic National Convention, was not allowed to speak. The Democrats, just like the Republicans, are terrified of offending Israel and its powerful lobby.
Christian theocrat Lance Wallnau is the Christian "prophet" directing much of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In 2016, when no one believed Trump could win the presidential election, Wallnau "prophesied" that Trump would win. Wallnau belongs to the New Apostolic Reformation, an organization of Christian theocrats who are dedicated to turning the US into a Christian Bible-based theocracy.
September 19, 2024
Yesterday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to demand the Jewish state of Israel ends its 57 yearlong and expanding illegal occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Palestinian East Jerusalem and Gaza. Israel's violent, cruel and ungodly occupation is based in the violence promoting, cruel and ungodly Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament. People need to realize that God gave us our innate reason, not religion.
Similar to the Roman Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, has been hit with huge expenses due to its clergy members sexually abusing children and adults. They are now forced to sell their Nashville, Tennesse headquarters building.
Actor, director and traditionalist Catholic (Catholics who do not recognize the changes made by the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council) Mel Gibson announced that his new Jesus movie, the sequel to The Passion of the Christ, The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection will begin filming in early 2025. Gibson indicated that much of the new film will be set in other dimensions, presumably depicting what Christians imagine Jesus did from the time of his death through the approximately 41 hours until he allegedly came back to life on a Sunday morning. This would possibly avoid Gibson having to deal with presenting the ludicrous Bible zombies from Matthew 27:50-53.
September 18, 2024
Genocide Joe Biden's administration continually tells Israeli officials that Israel killing over 40,000 people in Gaza, including killing 17,000 children, is unacceptable and to not be so reckless in its bombings and other military actions in Gaza. Israel ignores the Biden administration's requests, and the Biden administration continues sending more and more bombs, weapons and ammunition to the Jewish state. This article is about US inspector generals who are investigating Biden's continued sending of US bombs and weapons to Israel.
Scott Stapp is the lead singer for the American rock band Creed. He has recently "come back to Jesus" and is promoting Christianity as well as the lie that America was created as a Christian nation and said the US was “built upon the Bible and the Word of God.” As Deists know, the US was not created as a Christian nation.
Historically, Christianity has sought to inspire it faithful, and to get more money out of its faithful, by claiming to have ancient relics that are used to strengthen the beliefs of the faithful. The relics include the Shroud of Turin, the foreskin of Jesus, a piece of the cross Jesus was allegedly nailed to, etc., etc. This interesting article is about an alleged relic of the head/skull of John the Baptist!
September 17, 2024
What the Jewish state of Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza and in the Palestinian West Bank is criminal. The fact that US politicians from both parties are supplying Israel with weapons and ammunition to continue their Hebrew Bible-based criminal acts is in violation of US law. This informative article explains why an arms embargo against Israel is demanded by US law.
Here's a video of two Israeli soldiers explaining why they are refusing to return to fighting in the war on Gaza. They are truly heroic in taking a stand against the Israeli war machine!
The religious/superstitious belief in demons, devils and evil spirits seems to be increasing around the world. Here is a quote from the linked to article that shows what a Christian exorcist said during a church service/exorcism in Australia: "'It's going to heal sicknesses, afflictions and diseases,' Pastor Joseph Wisdom Sesay told a group of people gathered to be freed from evil spirits. 'Whatever it is — nightmares, terrors, torment, delusions.'" This is an attempt to free people from delusions by promoting the delusion of exorcisms. God gave us reason, not religion!
September 16, 2024
Here's an interesting opinion piece taking the stand that religious people should not have exemptions from getting their children vaccinated. What's hilarious is that most of the religious exemptions are given to Christians. The Christian Bible promises Christians faith healing. If faith healing was true, there wouldn't be any need for vaccines since anyone who was sick could be healed through Christian faith healing. During the pandemic, I couldn't understand why Christians were raising hell about their churches being shut down, when, according to their own "holy" book, all they had to do was pray in the name of Jesus and the pandemic would have ended and the infected people would have been healed and, according to John 14:12-14, the dead would have been brought back to life!
I just learned from a Christian publication that Jesus failed at healing a blind man, but Jesus tried again, and it worked! The nonsensical story from the anonymous author of the Gospel of Mark is at Mark 8:22-26. It's actually kind of a funny story. A blind man was brought to Jesus to be healed of his blindness. Jesus spit in the man's eyes and asked him what he saw. You'd think Jesus, the Christ, would know if the man was healed or not. The man told him he saw men as trees and walking around! As the story goes, Jesus then put his hands again on the man's eyes and told him to look up. This, allegedly, did the trick, and the man was healed of his blindness! The Christian author of the article does some mental twisting to make it appear Jesus failed at the first attempt in order to teach the apostles a lesson!
In Karnataka, India, "Caste Hindus announced a ban on Dalits entering 'their localities' after they assaulted a Dalit man, Arjun Madar, in Bagalkot district." Dalits are people classified by the upper castes as untouchables. When Arjun Madar entered a Hindu temple to pray, he was attacked by caste Hindus and tied to an electric pole and beaten. Imagine if they people who beat him had adopted Thomas Paine's Deistic principle of detesting everything that is cruel. If that was the case, the man never would have been beaten.
September 13, 2024
Mehmet Suat Eygi, the father of 26-year-old American/Turkish peace activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was murdered by an Israeli sniper in the Palestinian West Bank, is asking for a US independent investigation into his daughter's killing. He "suggested the U.S. government was deliberately avoiding a direct investigation into its close ally's/Israel's actions out of bias."
The "democracy" of the Jewish state of Israel is not allowing reporters into Gaza. In fact, they haven't allowed any reporters into Gaza since the start of their war on Gaza.
Here's an interesting article about Christian clergywoman Paula White. She was Donald Trump's "spiritual adviser" in the past. Now, after Kamala Harris is running against Trump for the White House, Paula White is rarely seen. It seems her absence is due to business reason - many of her current flock are women of color.
September 12, 2024
Israel designates certain areas in Gaza as "safe zones." These areas are claimed by the Jewish state of Israel to be safe for Palestinians to live in. However, Israel routinely bombs these "safe zones" killing more and more Palestinian children, women and men.
Here's an interesting and informative article about the merging of religion and government in Texas. As the article states, the creation and growth of the theocratic religious right in the US did not just happen organically, powerful forces were, and are, behind it.
A new observational report brings the popular Big Bang theory into question. Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University, published the findings of his observational report in scientific journal Particles. The two primary observations his report relies on are the redshift of galaxies based on their distance from Earth and the data from the James Webb Space Telescope. "The JWST provided deep images of the very early universe, but instead of showing an infant early universe as astronomers expected, it showed large and mature galaxies. If the Big Bang happened as scientists initially believed, these galaxies are older than the universe itself."
September 11, 2024
Joe Biden said the 26-year-old American Turkish women and peace activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot in the head and murdered by an Israeli sniper in the illegally and brutally Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, was shot by accident. He said the bullet hit the ground and then ricocheted off the ground and hit her in the head! After making his absurd statement, he must have been managed by Harris' political team, as he changed his mind and said he was "outraged" and that it was "totally unacceptable."
In the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, not surprisingly, neither condemned the Jewish state of Israel for its continuing slaughter in Gaza of 40,000 Palestinians, over 16,000 of whom are children. They both are fully aware of the excessive influence Israel has over them via its wealthy and powerful lobby. Harris claimed Hamas started the war by attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, and ignored the reason why Hamas attacked Israel.
The West African country of Ivory Coast has a problem of people of faith/magic who purchase "magic" powder that contains female genitalia. The female genitalia are from girls who have circumcisions performed on them.
September 10, 2024
In Uttar Pradesh, India, sisters, one a two-year-old and the other a four-year-old, were bitten by animals while they were sleeping. Their parents took them to an exorcist for black magic treatment. When the parents realized the black magic healing/exorcisms was not working, they took their suffering daughters to a hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival. Superstition is a terrible thing that needs to be replaced with our innate God-given reason.
Saint Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Marion, Massachusetts will be offering a six-week course on ghosts. This says a lot about Christianity!
The Israeli air force bombed a refugee tent camp in Gaza today. The American made bombs killed at least 19 refugees, including children and women, and wounded 60 people.
September 9, 2024
A Jewish Florida state representative, Randy Fine, posted on X, "Throw rocks, get shot. One less #MuslimTerror ist. #FireAway." This was in response to a post about the Turkish American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi who was shot in the head and murdered by a sniper in the Israeli Occupation Forces in the Palestinian West Bank. Fine does not believe Palestinians should fight their occupiers who are stealing their homes and farms and killing and imprisoning their family and friends.
The family, friends and fellow human rights activists of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the Turkish American 26-year-old who was murdered by an Israeli sniper of the Israeli Occupation Forces in the brutally and illegally occupied Palestinian West Bank, do not believe anything will happen and justice will be denied regarding her murder. In all probability, as happens whenever the Israeli war machine kills innocent people, Israel will investigate itself.
In Nebraska, there is resistance against school vouchers, in which state tax dollars are given to private schools, the majority of which are religious schools. A ballot initiative to overturn to overturn a law allowing school vouchers may be done away with via the ballot initiative.
September 6, 2024
Aysenur Eygi was a 26-year-old idealistic, altruistic and heroic Turkish/American woman who saw the decades old ongoing injustice of the Jewish state of Israel's slaughter and land theft against the Palestinians in the Palestinian West Bank. She went there to show her support of the oppressed Palestinian people who are under attack from Jewish squatters and the Israeli Occupation Forces. An Israeli sniper shot her in the head and murdered her. US politicians, the vast majority of which are political whores for Israel, asked Israel to investigate the murder. That's like asking Charlie Manson to investigate the murders his gang committed.
In Australia, the Christian defendants in the case of the killing of eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs by withholding her insulin from her in order to heal her through faith and prayers based on the Christian Bible gave their closing statements. Their closing statements bring out the vital importance of Deists educating people about the ungodly and harmful nonsense in the Christian Bible. In at least one closing statement the erroneous belief that the Christian Bible is God's Word was expressed. The statement was, “Though I know we look like fools and idiots, deceived or brainwashed, a laughingstock, I know the opposite is true – that God’s word is true, no matter how things may appear.” The more we get people to realize the Bible is NOT the Word of God, the more we will improve the world and prevent superstition-based deaths of helpless children.
In Ireland, a 700-page report on sexual abuse of children at religious-run schools was released by Ireland’s Minister for Education Norma Foley. The report covers the years 1927-2013 and documents 2,395 cases of child sexual abuse. It is believed “collusion” between the religions and the government is why it went undetected for so long.
September 5, 2024
Bring Your Bible to School Day has morphed into Bring Your Bible Day, which includes not just school students, but also adults who are encouraged to bring their Bible to work. This will take place on October 3, 2024. This is a recruitment effort by the Christian fundamentalist pro-theocracy organization Focus on the Family.
Israeli PM Netanyahu held a press conference allegedly to explain why he will not accept a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that requires the Jewish state of Israel to pull its troops off of the Philadelphi line which separates Gaza from Egypt. Netanyahu used a map in his propaganda show. This article points out that the map Netanyahu used looked as if the Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem all part of Israel, as they were not even on the map.
The Jewish state of Israel has been conducting Jewish terrorist raids into the Palestinian West Bank for years. They have stepped up these terrorist attacks since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. This interesting and thought-provoking article takes the position that Israel is testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from the Palestinian West Bank with its Israeli military terror attacks.
September 4, 2024
In Australia, the prosecution has finished presenting their case involving the 14 Christian defendants who withheld insulin for the diabetic daughter, Elizabeth Rose Struhs, of two of the members. Elizabeth died from this Bible-based faith healing nonsense. The defendants decided not to call any witnesses. Tomorrow the Christian defendants may give their statements to the court. That will be interesting if they decide to do it!
Here's an informative article about the Christian theocrat Jeffer Landry, who is also the governor of Louisiana. He is requiring that the 10 Commandments are posted in every public-school classroom across the state. As the article points out, he's playing a major role in the religious right's push to turn the US into a Christian Bible-based theocracy, which would make the US Constitution null and void.
Movies and television shows are powerful forms of propaganda. The religious right is moving deeper into movies and television with more and more Christian propaganda movies and television shows.
September 3, 2024
The state education board of Texas is going to hold hearings this month to bring Bible-inspired lessons into public-schools. The Bible lessons would be for grades K-5. The Christian theocrats are working hard to turn the US into a suppressive Bible-based theocracy.
On June 27th, Oklahoma State Education Superintendent Ryan Walters issued an order to require that a Christian Bible be in every public-school school room in the state, and that teachers incorporate the Christian Bible into their lessons. Now, many Oklahoma superintendents are refusing to follow the rule. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
"The Big Bang may not have been the beginning of the universe, according to a theory of cosmology that suggests the universe can “bounce” between phases of contraction and expansion. If that theory is true, then it could have profound implications about the nature of the cosmos, including two of its most mysterious components: black holes and dark matter."
September 2, 2024
The bodies of six Israeli hostages were recovered by the Israeli military in Gaza. The deaths of the six Israeli hostages inspired huge protests in Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem. The protesters are angry at Israeli PM Netanyahu and the Israeli government for not reaching an agreement with Hamas for a ceasefire and hostage exchange. Israel is holding thousands of Palestinians hostage in its prisons and 101 Israeli hostages held by Hamas remain in captivity.
Joe Biden said Israeli PM Netanyahu is not doing enough to free the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Biden, however, continues to ship millions of dollars worth of deadly bombs, missiles and ammunition to the Jewish state of Israel.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an organization that has been demonstrating on college campuses across the US. They oppose the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men. Currently the Jewish state has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, nearly half of them are children. Rutgers University has suspended the SJP until July 4, 2025. The SJP promised to ignore the suspension.
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August
August 30, 2024
The United Nations has released a report that states the Sunni Islamic terrorist organization that controls Afghanistan has deprived 1.4 million girls of receiving an education. Religion does not need people of knowledge and reason; religion needs people of faith. As the Deist Thomas Jefferson wrote, "...man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such person, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
College students who exercised their free-speech rights by publicly demonstrating in opposition to the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza, and against Joe Biden and other US politicians continuing to send Israel weapons and ammunition throughout the ongoing slaughter, are still facing punishment from their colleges and from the legal system. Freedom is not free.
Over the summer, many US colleges and universities have instituted unconstitutional anti-free-speech rules in order to shutdown students and others from demonstrating for the Palestinians being slaughtered by Israel in Gaza. Some of the protesters involved are going through the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to stop the new unconstitutional rules from being applied.
August 29, 2024
There are tens of millions of people who are nones (they don't belong to any organized religion). This article is about a devout Christian woman who left Christianity, and all organized religions, because of being duped for years by a megachurch pastor. It turns out the Christian clergyman/con-man, Robert Morris of Gateway Christian megachurch, had sexually abused a child and lied about it.
This interesting and informative article is about how millionaire Christian clergy make much of their millions of dollars. One of the millionaire Christian preachers, Keith Craft, is a "life coach" who charges "clients $84,000 annually to participate in his Life Mastery Mastermind."
New York University is attacking freedom of speech by making "Zionist" a protected class that cannot be criticized. This is in response to students who protested on campus against the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza.
August 27, 2024
In Bethlehem in the illegally and cruelly Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank, Jewish squatters/"settlers" shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded three other Palestinians. This religious violence is all based on the Hebrew Bible, what Christians have relabeled as the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible claims all the land the Palestinians own was given to the Jews by God to be owned by Jews and to be an eternal Jewish state.
Police in the Philippines have occupied the 78 acre property of millionaire Christian megachurch pastor Apollo Quiboloy. The clergyman/con-man is on the wanted list of the FBI for human trafficking. "An indictment from the Department of Justice in 2021 charged Quiboloy and two of his top administrators with trafficking young women and girls in the U.S. who were coerced into having sex with him under threats of 'eternal damnation.' The controversial megachurch pastor allegedly claimed that sex with him was a 'privilege' and 'God’s will.'"
Here's an interesting article from a Roman Catholic site/publication regarding Satan and exorcisms in the Catholic Church and the popes. The clergy invented Satan, demons and devils in order to better control people through fear. This foolishness does cause very real, real-world harm, as is evident when people are injured or even killed in exorcisms. A case in point is the killing of four-year-old Jessica Mast whose faith-based, not God-given reason-based, parents and fellow Christians killed her in an exorcism.
August 26, 2024
The Sunni Islamic terrorist officials who rule Afghanistan reject the United Nation's criticism of their new misogynistic laws which require women to not speak in public and to be covered head-to-toe with their faces covered when in public. The statement said in part, “We urge a thorough understanding of these laws and a respectful acknowledgment of Islamic values. To reject these laws without such understanding is, in our view, an expression of arrogance.” This goes to show that not all religious ideas and acts deserve respect. Irrational and harmful religions do not deserve any respect.
A Muslim in Germany went on a stabbing rampage killing three people and wounding eight people. The killer turned himself in to police. He is a member of the Sunni Islamic terror organization of Islamic State. Imagine what a much better world we will have when Deism displaces the "revealed" religions and Thomas Paine's "I detest everything that is cruel" does away with the cruelty of the "revealed" religions.
In India, a 30-year-old man who suffered from seizures and bouts of screaming had parents who are people of faith, not of reason. The asked a pastor for help. The pastor told them their son was possessed by the devil and that he needed an exorcism, in which the devil would be beaten out of their son. The pastor and eight other people of faith beat the man so much they killed him. The parents notified police who arrested the pastor.
August 23, 2024
Yesterday, Joe Biden asked the prime minister of the Jewish state of Israel, Netanyahu, to move Israeli military forces away from the border of Gaza and Egypt. Doing so would probably bring about the ceasefire sane people want. Netanyahu told Biden he'd move one military unit only a few hundred meters. Biden did not threaten to withhold American cash and weapons from the Jewish state if Netanyahu did not cooperate.
Here's an interesting article about the repulsive and hypocritical Democratic National Convention that concluded last night in Chicago, Illinois. The article points out the phony "joy" of the Democrats while they willfully ignored the genocide the Jewish state of Israel is carrying out in Gaza, having already killed at least 40,000 people.
The Sunni Islamic terrorist organization that rules Afghanistan has just published its vice and virtue laws. They claim that "this Islamic law will be of great help in the promotion of virtue and the elimination of vice." Article 13 of the misogynistic and irrational law states, "It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short. Women are obliged to cover themselves in front of non-Muslim males and females to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa."
August 22, 2024
At the "Democratic" National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, the "Democrats" are not allowing Palestinian Americans to speak at the convention. This makes it easy to see the profound and harmful hold the Jewish state of Israel's lobbies have on US politicians from both parties. An important book on this problem is The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
Here's an in-depth article about the ceasefire talks going on concerning Israel's war on Gaza. Israel's PM Netanyahu does not want a ceasefire, even though he claims to be working on one. That is why he frequently makes changes and demands things he knows Hamas will not accept.
Many people in the religious right claim the US was founded as a Christian nation and that the US needs to get back to its imagined biblical roots. A recent survey shows that a large number of Protestants are not at all knowledgeable about their Christian Bible. Anyone who believes the US was founded as a Christian nation does not know the history of the US.
August 21, 2024
In Nkandla, South Africa, a court sentenced two women and a male Christian pastor in the deaths of a nine-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl. The three adults, who are people of faith and not of God-given reason, believed the children had demons inside of them. They performed exorcisms on the children which involved beating the imaginary demons out of them. The court could have sentenced them to life in prison, but that did not happen. The court said, "In sentencing the trio, the court deviated from the prescribed minimum sentence of life imprisonment, saying that the case had an unusual factual matrix in that the accused believed that the deceased were possessed by demons and inflicted the assaults in the process of driving out the demons from the deceased. The court found this to constitute as substantial and compelling circumstances to deviate from life imprisonment."
The Hebrew Bible, what the Christians call the Old Testament, based violence the Jewish state of Israel has and is unleashing on the people in Gaza, not only kills tens of thousands of people, including children, it destroys the sewerage and water systems in Gaza. This allows waste and filth to flood Gaza. This, in turn, causes illness and disease to spread among the besieged populations. The first case of polio has now been confirmed.
This article is about Christianity and religion in the Democratic National Convention. The Republicans had a lot of religion in their convention, while often claim the Democrats are godless. This goes to show Thomas Paine was correct when he wrote in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, "...the Bible decides nothing, because it decides any way, and every way, one chooses to make it."
August 20, 2024
In Kenya, survivors of a Christian sect whose lead clergyman told the people of faith, not of God-given reason, in his sect to withhold food and water from their children so they could die and meet Jesus, and then to follow them by starving themselves to death to meet Jesus, began to testify in court. In March, 429 bodied of people in the Christian sect who followed their faith to their shallow graves were discovered by authorities.
Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken are claiming Hamas is not agreeing to a ceasefire agreement for Gaza. Hamas said that is not true, while other people involved in working out a ceasefire agreement said Israel has not agreed to comply with the current agreement being put forward by the US.
Most megachurches are Protestant, often Christian Evangelical or Pentacostal. Now, the Roman Catholic Church is getting in on the act of having megachurches. They are doing this because of the lack of priests.
August 19, 2024
In Australia, the ongoing case of Elizabeth Rose Struhs, the eight-year-old diabetic girl whose Christian parents took her off of her lifesaving insulin and who died because of their act of faith/superstition, has shown the Christian group, The Saints, Elizabeth's parents belong to, believes the government not allowing religious people to kill their children through faith healing is "religious discrimination."
Roger Waters, the co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, described the Jewish state of Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as "murder in broad daylight." Currently the death toll in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military is over 40,000 children, women and men.
This article is about the mobs of Jewish squatters/"settlers" who are stealing land from Palestinians in the Palestinian West Bank. The reason the Jews who are attacking the Palestinians with rifles and Molotov cocktails is rooted in their Hebrew Bible which claims God chose the Jews "above all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6) and that God gave all of that land to the Jews for an eternal Jewish state. The Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament also claims God will "set thee (Israel) on high above all nations of the earth" (Deuteronomy 28:1), which would include the US, UK, and every other Gentile nation on our planet Earth.
August 16, 2024
Here's a fascinating article about scientists who discovered pure math is written into evolutionary genetics. The intelligence-based universe is truly wonderful, fascinating and amazing!
"Televangelist Keith Moore’s ministry Faith Life International has purchased a third jet following a fundraising campaign to raise $10 million." It's wrong and foolish that religions get tax exemptions.
The Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society, a Black Baptist organization, received a $1 million donation from a Black megachurch in Virginia. The money is to be used to free Black girls who are being held as slaves in Ghana via the Trokosi tradition. Clergyman Howard-John Wesley said, “It was our trip to Ghana that exposed us to the slave trade industry that you wouldn’t believe still existed in 2024. We really felt like God gave us an opportunity to make a difference in freeing some of these young ladies.” Wesley is probably not aware that his Christian Bible never condemns slavery and in fact, teaches slaves to be obedient to their masters and to live in fear of their masters. For just one example, 1 Peter 2:18 teaches people who are slaves, "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward."
August 15, 2024
The talented and internationally renowned pianist, Jayson Gillham, spoke the truth regarding the Jewish state of Israel killing Palestinian journalists. Speaking the truth got Gillham in trouble.
In Boise, Idaho, library trustees rejected a request to deem the Christian Bible ‘harmful to minors,’ and to restrict access to it. Since the Bible contains accounts of incest, genocide, child rape and many other ungodly and disgusting things, it should be restricted as adults only.
The king of the Bamasaaba tribe of Uganda is marketing to tourists the mass circumcision ritual known as Imbaluof. However, many of the Bamasaaba people are not happy with making the circumcision ritual a tourist attraction.
August 14, 2024
Following the myth in their Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, that God gave real estate to Abraham and the ancient Jews for a Jewish state, Israeli officials published plans today for new Jewish settlements on Palestinian land in the Palestinian West Bank. If you understand the ungodly and cruel Hebrew Bible, you know all the land the Palestinians live on is considered by the Jewish state of Israel to be land God gave to the Jews.
The theocrats of the religious right are having success in turning the US into a Christian Bible-based theocracy. The US Supreme Court made many rulings in their favor over the last couple of years. In Louisiana a law was passed requiring the 10 Commandments to be posted in every public-school classroom throughout the state. In Oklahoma the Christian Bible is now required to be taught in public-schools. Now, Texas is infusing the Christian Bible in public-school curriculum.
School vouchers, in which tax dollars are used to pay the tuition of children in private schools, the vast majority of which are religious schools, have cost the state of Ohio at least $966.2 million last year. It's hypocritical for religious schools to take money that comes from taxes people pay, when the religions are exempt from paying taxes.
August 13, 2024
In Japan, a father, Atsushi Maishigi, believed his 13-year-old daughter, Tomomi Maishigi, was possessed by an evil spirit. He consulted a Buddhist monk, 56-year-old monk Kazuaki Kinoshita. In order to drive out the imaginary evil spirit, the girl's father and the Buddhist monk "performed a ‘waterfall service’ on the 13-year-old where she was allegedly bound to a chair by a belt and placed face-up underneath a water pump for five minutes at a Buddhist church in Kumamoto, south Japan." Tomomi died. Her father and the Buddhist monk were arrested and charged with inflicting injury causing death.
The US Secretary of State and Orthodox Jew, Antony Blinken, approved the "sale" of $20 billion in military aid to the Jewish state of Israel. $19 billion of it would be F-15 fighter jets, with the remainder being shells for tanks and military vehicles. When Israel "buys" US military equipment, etc., it usually with the billions of American tax-dollars the US politicians from both parties give them. This deal will ensure Israel can keep going with its slaughter of Palestinian people in Gaza and in the Palestinian West Bank. They've already killed at least 40,000 Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza.
The World Union of Deists has a new video up on our YouTube channel. The video is about how many Deists look at Providence. It helps to correct the false claim that Deism teaches The Supreme Intelligence/God never intervenes in the universe and or our lives.
August 12, 2024
The bombs US politicians from both parties give to the Jewish state of Israel work very well. When the Jewish state of Israel's air force dropped them on a school in Gaza that was serving as a shelter for refugees over the weekend, the American bombs killed over 100 Palestinian children, women and men. Some of the dead people were so torn apart into small pieces by the American made bombs, the unidentifiable human remains had to be placed in bags until the bags weighed 70kg each and that would be counted as one person. Israel, with the essential help of US politicians who are indebted to Israel's lobby for their political careers, is really bringing back the ungodly and cruel god of their Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament.
The Biden administration is sending US warships to the Middle East, along with at least one squadron of fighter planes in order to protect the Jewish state of Israel from Iran. There is now being added to those military assets a submarine capable of firing missiles. After Israel assassinated a Hamas leader inside Iran, Iranian officials threatened to retaliate with an attack on Israel.
A rabbi in Ireland was arrested for performing an illegal circumcision. 47-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Abraham was arrested for performing a circumcision without being registered as a medical practitioner. He is now in an Irish prison.
August 9, 2024
"The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a U.S.-based, non-governmental organization, said on Thursday that a Palestinian staff member had been killed in Gaza." This is the same humanitarian organization that had a convoy of food trucks in Gaza attacked three times by Israeli air attacks. The Jewish state of Israel killed seven WCK volunteers in those cowardly attacks.
The 19-year-old man in Austria who was planning a massive and deadly attack for this week at a Taylor Swift concert was self-brain-polluted by watching online videos from the Islamic terrorist organization of Islamic State. Police said he made a video of himself swearing allegiance to Islamic State.
After Israel assassinated a Hamas official inside Iran, Iran has threatened to attack Israel. A Biden administration official has said Iran does not have a right to attack the Jewish state. He also warned Iran that if they do attack Israel, they will suffer significant consequences. US politicians from both parties are more than happy to sacrifice the lives and limbs of American troops and BILLIONS of tax dollars taken from Americans for Israel.
August 8, 2024
On December 15, 2015 the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) placed the Bill of Rights “nativity” display in the Texas state Capitol (the Bill of Rights was adopted December 15, 1791). It was of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the Statue of Liberty looking adoringly at the Bill of Rights in a manger. Christian theocrat and Governor of Texas Greg Abott had the display removed three days later. The FFRF sued and won their case for freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The state of Texas was ordered to pay the FFRF $358,073.67 for attorney fees. The FFRF reports that they have now received payment.
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier this week said regarding the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza of Palestinians, "Nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned." This desire to commit genocide is right in line with the Hebrew Bible which Israelis claim is their God-given deed to the land the Palestinians own.
In Malaysia a shaman/"holy" man performed healing rituals on children called a "blood kiss" ritual. In the ritual, the shaman/"holy" man would cut his tongue and then kiss physically restrained children on the mouth and get his blood into the children. He claims this heals children from illnesses. The world really does need reason-based Deism!
August 7, 2024
Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the US State Department, said, regarding charges that the Jewish state of Israel's soldiers have committed rape of Palestinian prisoners, that Israel should investigate and hold the guilty accountable. Israel frequently investigates it own military and finds them innocent. When there is a guilty finding, the punishment is negligible. Rape of Palestinians, or any Gentiles, by Israeli soldiers should not surprise anyone. In 2002, Rabbi Colonel Eyal Karim, Karim has since been promoted from colonel to general and is in charge of the Israeli Military Rabbinate, said that Jewish soldiers are, according to the Hebrew Bible, allowed to rape Gentile women. His exact words were, "to satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will".
Here's an interesting and informative article about how the theocrats of the religious right are using schools to move America towards becoming a Christian Bible-based theocracy. One of the biggest lies of the religious right theocrats is that America was created by Christians as a Christian nation. Here's our page which makes clear that is a lie.
In February the Biden administration issued an executive order that allowed economic sanctions to be placed against Jewish terrorist/settlers/squatters who use violence to force Palestinians from their homes and farms in the Palestinian West Bank. Now the Biden administration is being sued by Christian and Jewish Israel-firsters. They claim sanctions are a violation of their religious freedom.
August 6, 2024
In the town of Mthunzini, South Africa, two nine-year-old girls were believed to be possessed by a demonic snake. Their family and their pastor severely beat the girls in order to remove the "demon" within them. They believed a snake stuck its head out of one of the girl's vaginas. The pastor and the girls' family then tried to burn and scrape the imaginary snake out of the girl's vagina. Both girls were killed due to this irrational superstitious/religious event.
Here's some great news. "A growing international coalition is fighting to prevent vessels carrying military fuel to Israel from docking in the Mediterranean Sea." Without fuel, the Jewish state of Israel would not be able to launch air assaults against the people in Gaza. An estimated 40,000 people, including 15,000 children, have been brutally killed by Israel in Gaza.
The Jewish state of Israel has, through the Red Cross, returned over 80 bodies of dead Palestinians to Palestinians in Gaza. The bodies are in varying degrees of decomposition. They did not include the names of the dead people, only numbers.
August 5, 2024
Over two weeks ago US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is an Orthodox Jew, said Iran is one or two weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. It's now over two weeks since he made that propaganda statement, and Iran still does not have a nuclear bomb. The Jewish state of Israel, which really does have nuclear bombs, has been saying for over two DECADES that Iran was a few weeks or a few months away from having a nuclear bomb. These lies are told to move the US closer to a war against Israel's enemy Iran, just as lies were told to start the Iraq War for Israel's benefit.
In some concerning news, a new survey shows that 53% of Americans believe the First Amendment right of freedom of speech has gone too far. People should keep in mind this quote from the Deist George Washington, "...reason is of no use to us if the freedom of Speech may be taken away — and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter."
In Massachusetts vandals attacked five Christian churches that support gay people. It is believed the vandals were also Christians, since a Christian flag was left at two of the churches that were vandalized as well as a banner reading "Jesus is King." It does not make sense for Christians to support gay people. This is because Christians claim the Christian Bible is the Word of God, and the Christian Bible contains the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, at Leviticus 20:13, claims God commanded the Jews to kill gay men. It claims God said, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
August 2, 2024
The “Filioque” clause of the Nicene Creed has to do with the imaginary "Holy Trinity" of Christianity. The clause claims the Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit came from both God the Father and God the Son. Disagreements about this between Christian clergymen caused Christianity to split into a Western and an Eastern Church. Now the Lutheran World Federation and the Orthodox Church have reached an agreement about this "important" nonsense. Superstitious people take superstition very seriously!
The exodus of people from the "revealed" religions, which has brought about the growth of the "nones", people who don't follow any of the world's religions, has caused houses of worship to lose members. This has now impacted the Christian publishing industry.
Here's an interesting and informative article about Jewish Israelis supporting Israeli military members who rape Palestinians/Gentiles and torture Palestinians/Gentiles. It points out that a group of religious Jews on the political right are referencing the Maccabean Revolt circa 160 BCE in which religious Jews killed Hellenistic Jews.
August 1, 2024
Eastern Orthodox Christian monks, more than 100 of them, are preparing to do battle with Greek police. The monks are squatters on a "holy" mountain, Mount Athos. The monks are from the Esphigmenou Monastery. The Ecumenical Patriarchate administers the mountain, and they want the monks removed. Religion even causes division within the same religion.
Here's an interesting article about the new requirement for public school teachers in Oklahoma to teach the Bible to their public-school students.
Joe Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu spoke during a half-hour phone call today. Biden promised Netanyahu that he would order US military deployments to protect the Jewish state from attacks by Iran. After Israel assassinated a Hamas leader inside Iran, Iranian officials have promised a reprisal attack on Israel.
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The Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament also claims God will "set thee (Israel) on high above all nations of the earth" (Deuteronomy 28:1), which would include the US, UK, and every other Gentile nation on our planet Earth. (August 19, 2024 item)
The preacher Garner Ted Armstrong, who had a radio program titled The World Tomorrow, which was broadcast on many radio stations in the 1960's and 1970's, was a proponent of British Israelism, i.e. that British and Americans are descended from the "Ten Lost Tribes" of Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrongism#British_Israelism
To an extreme fundamentalist like John MacArthur (March 21, 2024 item), any Christian who does not fall in line with certain strict doctrinal tenets is not "really" a "true" Christian. So his saying somebody like Martin Luther King is not a "true" Christian is par for the course for somebody like him. I can't say if there were any racial motivations for him saying what he said.
With all due respect to a great person like Martin Luther King (but NOT to fundamentalists like John MacArthur), for myself I am glad to be a Deist and no longer a Christian.
Ah yes, good old John MacArthur (March 21, 2024 item). I went to a week long conference/retreat with Campus Crusade for Christ one time when I was in college in the early 1970's. (See about my brief involvement with them in my Why Deism write-up: (Nominal Christian Upbringing, etc.)). John MacArthur was one of the presenters, and his presentation was about Romans.
Looking at his Wikipedia bio we see that John is an extreme fundamentalist. He is a Young Earth creationist. And he is a Dispensationalist, and believes a restored Israel will inherit physical ownership in the land of Canaan. Saying Martin Luther King is not a (true) Christian is par for the course for somebody like MacArthur.
Evangelical Christians being the biggest supporters of Israel (from March 1, 2024 item) illustrates what Thomas Paine said that belief in a cruel God makes a cruel person.
Evangelical Christians already believe in a cruel God who condemns to hell for all eternity those who, for whatever reason, do not come to "accept Jesus Christ" in this present lifetime. Thus they would not care about the sufferings of Palestinians whom they regard as pawns in God's plan, and who have to make way for God's "chosen people" in fulfillment of God's grand plan.
An item from January 18, 2024 contains the following link:
https://kennethburchell.substack.com/p/the-chosen-people
which contains an embedded video of the Exodus song, sung by the fundamentalist Christian Pat Boone. I remember that song from when I was 10 years old in 1961, and I had always liked the Ferrante and Teicher instrumental version. It sounded grand, and innocent, and I never had any idea that the song was celebrating a gross injustice.