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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January
January 29, 2025
Today is Thomas Paine's birthday! He was born January 29, 1737 in Thetford, England. Thomas Paine was essential in getting the American Revolution started and in seeing it through to its successful end. He is also the greatest Deism in history. We all owe him a lot!
Verdicts in the case of a Christian Bible believing sect whose members withheld insulin from a member's eight-year-old diabetic daughter, Elizabeth Rose Struhs, were released today in Queensland, Australia. Elizabeth's parents along with 12 fellow sect members were all found guilty of manslaughter. A statement made by Elizabeth's father, Jason Struhs, inadvertently revealed the reason they withheld medical care and insulin. He said, “And though I know that we look like fools and idiots, deceived and brainwashed, a laughing stock, I know the opposite is true. That God’s word is true, no matter how things may appear.” He mistakenly believes the Christian Bible is the Word of God. That false belief is why he acted on the Bible's false promises of healing through faith and prayer and withheld insulin from his daughter. Irrational beliefs cause dangerous actions.
Jewish American journalist Peter Beinart has released a new book titled Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. In the book, he encourages American Jews not to turn their backs on what the Jewish state of Israel did in its war crimes in Gaza.
January 28, 2025
Pew Research conducted an interesting survey about religious nationalism in 36 countries. They asked 55,000 people four key questions about religious nationalism. One thing they all had in common was the belief that when the will of the people is in conflict with their particular "holy" book, their "holy" book should have more influence.
In Pakistan a 30-year-old pregnant woman was believed to be possessed by evil spirits by her husband and family. They took her to two bhopa (witch doctors/clergymen) who did what they said was needed to drive out the evil spirit; an exorcism in which they beat her with fists and sticks and pulled her hair. They did this for five days and nights. They stopped the religious/superstitious abuse when she died. Turning our backs on our gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of innate reason demands a very high price.
"The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the doomsday clock to 89 seconds before midnight - the theoretical point of annihilation. That is one second closer than it was set last year." The organization was founded in 1947, shortly after the birth of the nuclear age.
January 27, 2025
In Montana, a "group of Democratic lawmakers in Montana have introduced a bill that would require Catholic priests to disclose confessions related to serious crimes, challenging the church’s long-standing tradition of maintaining the confidentiality of the confessional."
Christian clergyman John MacArthur underwent multiple heart surgeries during the past year. He's still in the hospital and will undergo physical therapy. Is it wrong for Christian clergy to receive medical care when their Bible, which they teach as being the Word of God, claim Jesus will heal Christians and give them whatever they ask for when praying for it in the name of Jesus? (John 14:12-14)
The US State Department has frozen new foreign aid - except for the Jewish state of Israel and Egypt which US politicians bribe to not cause trouble for Israel. The Israel lobby really knows how to control politicians!
January 24, 2025
A Louisiana law that requires the 10 Commandments be displayed in public schools is now before another court to determine if it's constitutional. Many schools have refused to comply with the theocratic law. Do the 10 Commandments promote slavery since they do not include an anti-slavery command, but they do command that Jews do not covet the slaves owned by their neighbors?
In an other case involving religion being promoted by state governments, the US Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the first of its kind in the country. The Christian theocrats never tire of working to turn the US into a Christian Bible-based theocracy.
Here's an article in a Christian site that is concerned that there are not enough Christian clergy members who are preaching about biblical end times. It's probably because many Christian clergy members are aware that many Christians are tired of waiting for the return of Jesus when Jesus was wrong about his return date, according to Matthew 16:28.
January 23, 2025
Michael DiMino, the Pentagon’s new Middle East chief, wants US foreign policy for the Middle East to be fundamentally changed. He said, “We’re really there to counter Iran, and that’s at the behest of the Israelis and the Saudis.” That would be wonderful if he's successful as it would go a long way in preventing the US from being used by the Jewish state of Israel to fight its wars as was the case with the Iraq War.
A newly released World Council of Churches (WCC) video makes the point that Jerusalem is supposed to be a city for the three largest Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions, but that Israel is making that impossible. As stated by WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay in the film, “Repeatedly over the years, we have seen acts by the Government of Israel that deny Christians and Muslims equal opportunities to exercise their religious rights and freedom in Jerusalem.”
"Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The probe uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its top members." It should be investigated by law enforcement, not the Vatican.
January 22, 2025
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC will soon have the personal Bible of Donald Trump. It's a Christian Bible Trump's mother gave him for his Sunday Church Primary School graduation in 1955. When he was sworn in on Monday, he was supposed to have his hand on the Bible. However, he did not put his hand on the Bible while being sworn into office.
After Donald Trump officially recognized all of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, including Palestinian East Jerusalem, Israeli PM Netanyahu said Trump was a modern day Cyrus the Great. Some Jews say he is the modern day ancient Israelite king Jehu, who exterminated the house of Ahab, as this interesting article points out.
Florida's school voucher program is costing taxpayers $3.9 billion per year. The majority of private schools that receive school voucher money are religious schools. In Florida, 82% of private schools receiving school voucher money are religious schools.
January 21, 2025
Donald Trump, in a move that will please his Israel first handlers/donors like Miriam Adelson, reversed sanctions on Israeli Jewish terrorists/settlers/squatters who murder and terrorize Palestinians in order to force them out of their homes and off of their farms. This is done because Judaism teaches that all the land currently owned by Palestinians was given to Jews for a Jewish state by the Jewish god.
This interesting and insightful article is about how a growing number of Christian backers of Donald Trump are becoming discontent regarding Trump's unquestioning and blind support for the Jewish state of Israel. The article attributes some of this to Israel's genocide on the people in Gaza, which includes Christians who are slaughtered by the Jewish state.
Not many Americans are aware of Israel's cowardly and deadly sneak attack on the US Navy ship, the USS Liberty. It happened on June 8, 1967 and killed 34 American sailors and Marines and wounded 171 US sailors and US Marines. The US politicians covered it up (here's an outstanding documentary about it based on firsthand accounts of survivors). There is now a new bill, HB 256, that was introduced in the New Hampshire legislature which, if passed, would required a full investigation into Israel's deadly attack on the USS Liberty.
January 20, 2025
The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has taken affect. Prisoner exchanges have taken place, with more expected. Three Israeli women were released and 90 Palestinians were released. Hopefully, the fighting is over.
This article points to some exchanges between Israeli PM Netanyahu and his religious allies who are opposed to the ceasefire agreement. The article claims Netanyahu promised them the ceasefire will not last long.
Donald Trump was sworn in as US President today. However, he did not put his hand on a bible.
Here's an insightful and interesting science-based article explaining the age-old question of why the sky is blue.
January 17, 2025
A reporter who asked tough questions about the Biden administration's unconditional support of the Jewish state of Israel of US Secretary of State Blinken was grabbed by law enforcement and physically carried out of the room. It makes you wonder how serious the US politicians are about free speech.
Here's an insightful and interesting article about the US State Department letting the Jewish state of Israel get away with its slaughter and destruction in Gaza for the last year.
The Roman Catholic Church is offering indulgences to faithful who fast from social media. Indulgences are believed to lessen earthly suffering and cut time off your sentence in purgatory.
January 16, 2025
According to a new report, the Roman Catholic Church has spent over $5 billion on sexual abuse cases. "During the 20 years of surveys, the respondents reported 16,276 credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors by priests, deacons or religious brothers."
Christian theocrats in the Texas statehouse held a prayer meeting in which they prayed for "the fear of the Lord to come into this place. Let the fear of the Lord return to Austin. In Jesus’ name.” They also encouraged Christians to exercise their rightful "jurisdiction over the affairs of men." Too bad they're not familiar with America's Founders!
The ceasefire agreement most people are hoping for between Gaza and Israel might be killed by Judaism. Hopefully, God-given reason will prevail over man-made made "revealed" religion.
January 15, 2025
It looks like a ceasefire agreement has been reached between Hamas and Israel that would end the fighting and slaughter going on in Gaza. Israel's cabinet still needs to approve the agreement. Hopefully, they will.
Here's a concise article about the Thomas Jefferson prayer that wasn't and how it shows the very real importance of Deism.
Genocide Joe Biden, a self-proclaimed Zionist, on numerous occasions over the last year warned the Jewish state of Israel about killing children and other civilians in Gaza and about not allowing food, water and medicine into Gaza. Israel ignored him and he did nothing about it. This informative article makes this pathetic fact clear.
January 14, 2025
More and more respected organizations are pointing out that the Jewish state of Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. So far they killed over 46,000 people, the majority of whom are children and women. This article is about how many Jewish and Christian groups refuse to admit that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The Vatican approves a document and rule change that will allow gay men to become Roman Catholic priests. This is in violation of their own Bible, in which the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote it claim God commanded the killing of gay men at Leviticus 20:13.
In India, the world's largest religious gathering started on Monday. It's a Hindu pilgrimage called Maha Kumbh Mela. 400 million pilgrims, "holy" men and tourists are expected to attend.
January 13, 2025
Some Israeli soldiers with a conscience are refusing to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza. They are also starting to speak out against the genocide and destruction the Jewish state is inflicting on the people in Gaza.
Here's an informative and interesting in-depth article about how school voucher programs are taking billions of tax dollars and giving them to religious schools. This is a violation of the Jeffersonian constitutional principle of separation of religion from government.
In Nigeria over the last two years Islamic terrorists, primarily belonging to the Islamic terrorist organization of Boko Haram, have murdered over 2,000 Christians. They have kidnapped and assaulted thousands more people.
January 10, 2025
A new study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in the prestigious The Lancet journal shows the numbers of Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza are very much underreported. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure of people killed between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 at 37,877. The LSHTM researchers put the corrected number at 64,260. 59% of the people killed by the Jewish state of Israel are children, women and the elderly.
"The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – a Quaker organization that has worked for peace and justice for over a century – has cancelled planned advertising with the New York Times after the paper refused to allow an ad that referred to Israel’s genocide in Gaza."
The Resurrection of the Christ will be the title of Mel Gibson's sequel to Passion of the Christ. He told Joe Rogan The Resurrection of the Christ "goes from the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle." I wonder if Gibson will include Matthew 27:50-53 in which the anonymous author of the Gospel of Matthew claims that when Jesus died, dead people in cemeteries around Jerusalem came back to life and hung out at their graves from that Friday afternoon until Sunday morning when Jesus came back to life. After Jesus came back to life, the bible zombies all went into Jerusalem "and appeared unto many." https://www.deism.com/post/bible-zombies-attach-god-given-reason
January 9, 2025
When Speaker of the US House of Representatives read a prayer to the House of Representatives which he falsely claimed was written by Thomas Jefferson and that Jefferson recited it daily, was he lying or taking it on faith that it was Thomas Jefferson's prayer? The article also mentions that Thomas Jefferson was a Deist.
Donald Trump posted a video of economics professor Jeffrey Sachs describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "a deep, dark son of a bitch" responsible for orchestrating U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He also talks about how Israel pressured US politicians to start the Iraq War. This could be a sign that Trump may not be as submissive to the Jewish state and its powerful Israel lobby as he was during his first term in office.
The idea of a multiverse is popular. However, two physicists who "initially set out to solve a 100-year-old puzzle in quantum theory, but ended up undermining the idea of parallel universes."
January 8, 2025
Is Russia holding back the antichrist? That's what the Russian Orthodox Christian Church believes and teaches. They believe Czar Nicholas II is in heaven interceding on behalf of Russia and impowering Russia to keep the antichrist in check.
In Uganda, a Christian family of three were burned alive in their home by Muslims. The victims had been Muslims, but they converted to Christianity. This enraged their Muslim neighbors who then burned their house down with the Christians inside. As the Deist Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
This short video shows that some Israelis are starting to back and support Israeli soldiers who are refusing to take part in the slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza. That's a step in the right direction.
January 7, 2025
Here's an interesting and informative article regarding the phrase "So help me God" that US presidents say when being sworn in office. The article points out that the popular claim that George Washington said it when he was sworn into office is false. As many Deists know, George Washington was not a Christian, he was a Deist. The religious right promotes falsehoods like this in order to win support for their efforts to turn the US into a Christian Bible-based nation.
The Jewish state of Israel kidnapped Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from his hospital in Gaza, which was attacked by Israeli occupation troops/terrorists. He has not been heard from for 10 days. Medical organizations are demanding his release.
State and federal US politicians from both parties know that pleasing Israel's powerful and wealthy lobby is a sure way to advance their own political careers. Many states will not do business with people or companies that do not agree to sign a pledge never to boycott the Jewish state of Israel. Florida is one of those states. This article is about how artists are pushing back against this anti-free speech state rule.
January 6, 2025
Mike Rinder, who was a high-level member of the Church of Scientology before becoming an outspoken critic of Scientology has died of cancer at the age of 69. He died yesterday, January 5, 2025 in Palm Harbor, Florida. He did a lot to help people who wanted to get out of Scientology and co-hosted the Emmy winning documentary Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
James Arthur Ray was a New Age self-help guru/con-man. He was a narrator on the film The Secret which was promoted by Oprah Winfrey and conducted "Spiritual Warrior" seminars and events where he charged his faithful followers thousand of dollars to attend. In 2009 at one of these events in Sedona, Arizona, which had a sweat lodge as part of the event, three people died because of Ray's negligence. He spent a couple of years in prison for this. Recently he was working on making a return, this time talking more about God and with more religious overtones. His return was cut short by his death this past Friday.
The Jewish state of Israel helped a former Israeli soldier escape Brazil before he could be charged with war crimes. Israeli occupation forces taking part in the ongoing slaughter/genocide in Gaza, where tens-of-thousands of Palestinian/Gentile children, women and men have already been killed, often post to social media their war crimes. These videos can be used in a court of law against them.
January 2, 2025
Here's an interesting article about how technology is expected to change the future of religion around the world. Too few people are aware of Deism for Deism to be included in the article. The World Union of Deists is working to correct that.
The FBI said that the Islamic terrorist who drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana's French Quarter, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, which killed 14 people, was “100% inspired” by the Islamic terrorists organization of Islamic State. If we go to the root of the problem, we need to know where Islamic State gets its inspiration for deadly terrorism. They find their inspiration in the Quran.
Books discovered during a search of Shamsud-Din Jabbar's home included the Quran and other books about Islam and about the founder of Islam, Mohammed. There was also a Christian Bible and a book about Christianity. Both the Quran and the Christian Bible promote religious violence.
January 1, 2025
A Muslim terrorist used a pickup truck to kill at least 10 people and injure over 30 other people early this morning in New Orleans, Louisiana's Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. The street was crowded with people who were celebrating the New Year. The Muslim terrorist had an ISIS flag flying from a pole attached to the truck's trailer hitch.
On December 21, 2024, Pope Francis said in his Christmas address regarding the Jewish state of Israel's bombing of children in Gaza, “Yesterday, children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war.” His statement has angered leaders of the largest US Jewish organization, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. They wrote a letter to Francis complaining about his statement. Perhaps, since they see themselves as God's chosen people "above all people that are upon the face of the earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6), they believe they are entitled to kill whoever they want to kill.
The Canyon Independent School District in Texas removed the Christian Bible from its school library shelves. However, after much pressure to be hypocritical, they have back on the library shelves.
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December
December 31, 2024
Here's an interesting article taking the position that Jimmy Carter's election as president in 1979 is what spurred the religious right into existence.
Shen Yun is a popular dance troupe and part of a religion from China, Falun Gong. The religion has accumulated over $266 million, largely due to Shen Yun performances. Falun Gong pays its workers and performers little if anything.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a planet larger that Earth and which has signs of a gas only produced by living organisms. With the vastness of the universe, it seems very unlikely that life would be limited to only Earth.
December 30, 2024
Religious clergy, and many people of faith, not of God-given reason, believe their religious/superstitious beliefs make them entitled to special treatment by society. This is seen in exemptions some states and the federal government give to religious parents that allow them to withhold medical care from their sick and/or injured children, as well as to be exempt for having their children vaccinated. They also believe their entitlement includes not paying taxes while receiving the benefits made possible by tax-payers, such as police and fire protection and services, etc. Recently, a court has ruled that Luther Rice College & Seminary, a Christian, private, nonprofit institution near Atlanta, was approved to take part in Georgia's State Aid programs. They don't pay taxes, but they take taxpayer dollars to pay for tuition for students who will become members of the Christian clergy at the expense of taxpayers.
In Afghanistan, the Sunni Islamic terrorist organization that rules Afghanistan, the Taliban, have been creating misogynistic laws and rules since they took over the country in 2021. To further their campaign against women, they recently announced they will force NGOs that employ women in Afghanistan to shut down.
In some good news for people who value their gift from The Supreme Intelligence/God of innate reason, the number of churches in the US that are closing their doors and going out of business continues to increase.
December 27, 2024
Senior Judge Marsha J. Pechman of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington has ruled against Michelle J. Kinnucan in her legal efforts to obtain records the NSA, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency had failed to release despite a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests concerning the USS Liberty. The USS Liberty suffered a sneak attack by the Jewish state of Israel which nearly sank the ship, and which killed 31 US sailors, 2 US Marines and one National Security Agency American civilian. Israeli air and sea military forces launched their cowardly and deadly attack on June 8, 1967, three days after Israel started the Six Day War. (The linked to article contains a lot of important information about the attack and the ensuing cover-up.)
Israeli occupation forces attacked a hospital in northern Gaza. They removed medical staff and patients and then set fires in the hospital. This is very much like the contents in the Hebrew Bible.
Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 "Holy" Year which will be a Jubilee year. It is expected to bring in 32 million faithful pilgrims to Rome and the Vatican. Francis said the purpose of the Jubilee, is “to bring hope to the interminable, dreary days of prisoners, to the cold and dismal lodgings of the poor and to all those places desecrated by war and violence.” Since Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, the Jubilee has its roots in the Torah. Leviticus 25:1-55 is where the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Hebrew Bible claim God ordered a Jubilee where, among other things, slaves would be freed. HOWEVER, only Jewish slaves were to be freed, not Gentile slaves. God allegedly told the Jews to only own Gentile people and their children as slaves who they can pass on to their children as an inheritance and can own them forever. (Leviticus 25:44-46)
December 24, 2024
Faith healing Christian clergyman/conman and multimillionaire Kenneth Copeland spent 10 days in the hospital due to his appendix rupturing. He ignored his Christian Bible-based nonsense regarding healing through faith and prayer, particularly John 14:12-14 which claims Jesus promised the people who believe in him that they could do all the things Jesus allegedly did, such as heal the sick and bring dead people back to life. Ken preferred science-based medical care over Jesus-based nonsense!
The Roman Catholic bishop of Birmingham, Alabama, Steven J Raica, had been covering for pedophile priests while he was bishop of Gaylord, Michigan. This is based on a report published by the office of the Michigan state attorney general, Dana Nessel.
Mike Casey – a US army veteran who served in Iraq and who was until recently the US State Department’s deputy political counsellor on Gaza - has resigned from his position at the US State Department because of the US backing of the Jewish state of Israel's indiscriminate slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women and men. Casey said, “We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do. I was too embarrassed to continue being an American diplomat. I knew I couldn’t go to another assignment and function.”
December 23, 2024
Here's an informative and interesting article about the Israeli occupation troops committing war crimes in Gaza. One statement by an Israeli occupation troop that sums it up is, "When you leave Israel and enter Gaza, you're a God." The Hebrew Bible is alive and well in Gaza and in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem.
As Israel killed 22 people, including children, in Gaza, a Vatican envoy was allowed by the Jewish state of Israel to enter Gaza for a pre-Christmas mass. Israel has killed over 45,000 people in Gaza since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. This article explains why Hamas attacked Israel.
In 1647 England, there was a serious war on Christmas. That was the year Christmas was actually officially cancelled. The people who cancelled were Puritan Christians.
December 20, 2024
Methodists in Nigeria are physically fighting each other over acceptance of gay people. The United Methodist Church (UMC) has gone against its Book of Discipline and against the Christian Bible by ordaining gay people into the clergy and performing same-sex marriages. This has inspired many Methodists to break away from the UMC and form a new Methodist sect called the Global Methodist Church (GMC). On December 16th, the GMC Methodists attacked the UMC Methodists, killing one adult and two children. Each group also burned down houses belonging to the opposing group.
War criminal/Israeli PM Netanyahu will not be attending the upcoming anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. They reason he won't be there is because there's a warrant for his arrest out from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Netanyahu is afraid if he travels to Poland he might be arrested and sent to the ICC. The arrest warrant was issued due to Israel's committing genocide in Gaza. Currently the Jewish state has killed over 45,000 Palestinian people with the majority of those killed being children and women.
Austin Tice is a US Marine veteran and a reporter. He was kidnapped 12 years ago while working in Syria. Now that Assad has been removed from power in Syria, Israel is bombing parts of Syria, including near a prison where Tice's parents believe he may be. Tice's mother wrote a letter to Israeli PM Netanyahu asking that he halt the bombing so people can search in that area for her son. So far, Netanyahu's office has not responded to her.
December 19, 2024
Texas theocrats are going to have Bible classes in public schools. However, they may have a problem doing this because of a law they were able to pass that prohibits “sexually explicit material” in libraries. A Texas public school district superintendent informed parents that the Bible was removed from the district’s libraries because it violated the law passed by Christian theocrats!
"Ron Carpenter Jr., pastor of the 21,000-member Redemption Church with campuses in Greenville, South Carolina, and San Jose, California, has rolled out his own Ron Carpenter Ministries Advanced Archive app." Carpenter's new AI app allows people to have AI Carpenter pray for them for as little as $49.00 a month. That includes unlimited access!
The Iranian Muslim morality police arrested a YouTube singer for performing an online concert without wearing a hijab. In a nutshell, "revealed" religions suck.
"Comedian Matt Rife said he recently got baptized in a pool following the death of his grandfather — and even though he 'hates' church, he wants to believe in God." I hope he realizes there is a true natural alternative to both the various "revealed" religions and to Atheism in Deism.
December 18, 2024
When your foundational source for information and knowledge is profoundly flawed, you will acquire very flawed ideas and beliefs. This is seen in the difference between Christians who believe the Earth is flat based on their understanding of the Christian Bible, and Christians who believe the Earth is a globe but also believe it's only about 6,000 years old based on the Christian Bible. These two Christian groups often do verbal battle with each other. To put that inter-Christian conflict to rest, Christian pastor Will Duffy organized a trip to Antarctica for four flat Earthers and four globe Earthers. The trip was named by Duffy the Final Experiment. If the Earth is flat, there would not be the 'midnight sun' in Antarctica. Everyone on the trip saw that there is a 'midnight sun' in Antarctica, that the sun shines for 24 hours, so Duffy hopes this is the end of the inter-Christian conflict. Based on history of Christians waging holy wars against each other, it's probably not the end of the argument!
Here's an interesting article about an up-and-coming female Christian apostle, Apostle Kathryn Krick, and her millions of followers who believe she can heal people through prayer, she can cast out demons and she can break curses. She has nearly two million faithful followers online. She and her followers must not be familiar with their Christian Bible and it misogyny. For example, 1 Timothy 2:11-12 teaches, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
The Jewish state of Israel has killed over 45,000 people in Gaza, the majority of whom are children and women. They are killing hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank. Now they are destroying the homes of Palestinians living in Palestinian East Jerusalem. All of this religious violence Israel is committing is grounded in their ungodly and cruel Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament.
December 17, 2024
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin. This case involves Catholic Charities attempt to win an exemption from paying unemployment taxes to the state of Wisconsin. This interesting and informative article explains, depending on the US Supreme Court's ruling, could hurt working people across the US.
The Roman Catholic Church has since Vatican II in the early 1960s become very close to Judaism. Several popes since then have written about how much Christianity and Christians owe Jews and Judaism due to Jesus being a religious Jew. Now, with Israel's ongoing slaughter of over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, this closeness seems to be on shaky grounds. The American Jewish Committee began working with U.S. bishops several years ago to develop a glossary that would help Catholics learn about anti-Semitism. They just recently released it. Nothing was mentioned regarding the anti-Gentilism in the Hebrew Bible.
"The family of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, expressed frustration Monday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying they heard 'the same things' without meaningful action." Eygi's husband said Blinken "repeated much of what we've been hearing for the past 20 years, particularly since Rachel Corrie's killing." Rachel Corrie was a young American human rights activist from Olympia, Washington who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer driver when she attempted to save the homes of Palestinians the Jewish state was destroying.
December 16, 2024
Most people are probably aware of the pedophile Catholic priests who have been raping children for decades. This problem is not limited to the Roman Catholic Church as this article makes clear. A low-profile Christian organization called the Two by Twos has also for decades had clergy who raped children. And, like the Catholic Church, they never took meaningful action to stop the unnatural sex crimes against children, they merely moved the pedophile clergymen from one church group to another.
Texas state government will be using textbooks that indoctrinate public school children with Christian religious/superstitious myths. This informative article gives specific examples of how they will be doing this in the new school year.
The Jewish state of Israel is closing its embassy in Ireland. The reason given for this is “the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government.” Ireland is outspoken against Israel's ongoing slaughter of over 45,000 children, women and men in Gaza.
December 13, 2024
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said in a recent interview that in spite of the San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s decision to prohibit her from receiving Communion due to her support for abortion rights, she has been receiving Communion from Catholic priests. When you stop and think about what Catholic/Christian communion is, the drinking the blood and eating the flesh of Jesus, it makes you wonder why anyone would want to do that! Catholics believe the wafer and wine literally transform into the actual body and blood of Jesus when they take it.
Gita Jayanti is the day that many Hindus believe Lord Krishna spoke the words of the Bhagavad Gita to the Indian Prince Arjuna more than 5,000 years ago. Wouldn't this make Hinduism a "revealed" religion?
The theocrats in the religious right are fighting continuously to turn the US into a Bible-based Christian theocracy. This informative and interesting article is about a small school in Oklahoma that may open a new hole in the Jeffersonian wall of separation of church and state.
December 12, 2024
It's common to hear Christians talking about the "end times" and the return of Jesus that will happen any minute now. This article is about Jews making a similar prediction, only their prediction is not about Jesus, it's about the Jewish messiah coming to Earth. One thing all of the "revealed" religions share is the lack of God-given reason!
In India the parents of an eight-year-old girl who suffered from a brain tumor relied on Christian faith healing. After 40 days, the little girl died. It's much better for everyone to be a person of God-given reason than a person of faith.
The universe is wonderful and fascinating. This article is about mathematicians who have discovered a new kind of infinity.
December 11, 2024
Last night the Jewish state of Israel launched airstrikes on a shelter for displaced people in Gaza. They killed 29 civilians. A family of eight was among those killed, including four children, their parents and two grandparents. The vast majority of US politicians from both parties give unquestioning support for Israel's slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men. So far, the Jewish state has killed at least 44,000 people in Gaza with the majority of its victims being children and women. This is the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament coming alive!
HaMoked is an Israeli human rights organization that helps Palestinians who are living under the Jewish state of Israel's brutal and cruel expanding occupation. HaMoked is trying to help Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza to find their family members who have disappeared during Israel's invasion.
Here's an interesting and insightful article about how Christian theocrats of the religious right use the beliefs in demons held by millions of Christians to manipulate them for political reasons. The articles starts out with the ludicrous claim by Tucker Carlson of being physically attacked in his sleep by a demon.
December 10, 2024
"A federal judge is considering whether to overturn a Minnesota law that bans religious tests for colleges that participate in a state program that allows high school students to take college courses for credit." Two Christian schools, Crown College in St. Bonifacius and the University of Northwestern in Roseville, require students to sign a statement of faith. The "program lets high school students earn free credits at state expense at public or private colleges of their choice, although the courses must be nonsectarian." It's wrong for Christian organizations to be exempt for paying taxes while reaping the benefits that are paid for with tax money.
In Port au Prince, Haiti a powerful gang leader believed the superstition that people in the Vodou/Voodoo religion can cast spells on people. His son was sick, and he believed his son's illness was caused by a curse people in the Vodou/Voodoo religion put on him. Over this past weekend he has his gang murder in a massacre over 110 people in the Vodou/Voodoo religion.
Here's an interesting article that makes the factual point that one person's religion is another person's blasphemy. She is for complete free speech when it comes to religion, but, unfortunately, not when it comes to race. Universal free speech is vitally important. As the Deist George Washington said, "...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."
December 9, 2024
This article takes issue with the new movie Mary. The author believes the film is too right-wing as well as anti-Jewish. She neglects to mention there is no reason that aligns without innate God-given reason to believe God impregnated a young Jewish girl with himself.
With the fall of the Syrian government, the Jewish state of Israel is taking even more land from Syria. Many people think Israel is only interested in taking the land currently owned by Palestinians. Based on their Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament at Genesis 15:18, they want all of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates River. They claim God gave it to them!
Pope Francis has appointed many new Cardinals. Many of these men are pro-gay. This is a violation of the Bible which the Catholic Church claims is God's Word. For example, Leviticus 20:13 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."
December 6, 2024
Religious relics are items that are claimed to be from a venerated person in a particular religion and are considered "sacred" by the followers of the religion. Some relics are pieces of clothing which are claimed to have been owned by the religious celebrity. Some relics are actually pieces of the body of a religious celebrity. Here's an interesting article about a "sacred" tooth that many Buddhists believe is from the Buddha. This article is about a "sacred" tooth relic of the Buddha that is believed to still be growing and that it has healing powers by Buddhists.
The Roman Catholic Church is big on "sacred" relics. This article is about the "sacred" relic of St. Thomas Aquinas' skull. There are two skulls that Catholics claim are Aquinas' skull!
All of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions are misogynistic. Islam is the most misogynistic of them all as Islam actually commands Muslim men to physically beat women who they fear may become rebellious towards them (Quran 4:34). This article is about the Islamic terrorist organization that is currently ruling Afghanistan and its repulsive and foolish misogynistic laws and rules.
December 5, 2024
"Israeli airstrikes tore through a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sparking fires and killing at least 21 people, according to the head of a nearby hospital, in the latest assault on a sprawling tent city that Israel designated a humanitarian safe zone but has repeatedly targeted." It's important for Americans to remember the fighter planes and bombs and bullets the Jewish state of Israel is using to slaughter tens of thousands of Palestinians, including thousands of children, are American planes, bombs and bullets that US politicians from both parties give to Israel in order to help their own political careers by pleasing Israel's wealthy and powerful lobby.
The well-respected human rights organization Amnesty International has released a report showing that the Jewish state of Israel is committing genocide against the people in Gaza. The report breaks everything down in great detail.
Here's an interesting and informative article about the AI Jesus in Switzerland. People can ask the AI Jesus for advice. Catholic clergy want people to realize the AI Jesus cannot be used for confessing their sins, nor can it forgive those sins.
December 4, 2024
Here's an interesting and thought-provoking article about how governments around the world are cracking down on people conducting anti-war and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
This insightful and interesting article examines why faith healers are able to continue on with their scams even after they fail to bring health to their faith-based, not reason-based, clients.
Bible sales have skyrocketed this year. Sales of Bibles are up 22% while overall book sales are only up 1%. Deists, and all freethinkers, have a lot of very important work to do!
December 3, 2024
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal has been found guilty of favoring Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the 2015 sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh "holy" scriptures). The Sikh religious court sentenced him to cleaning bathrooms at Sikh "holy" sites.
Here's and important and informative article about Israeli Jewish billionaire Miriam Adelson and how she uses her money to influence US elections. She invests her cash for the benefit of the Jewish state of Israel as she only gives her cash to US politicians who put Israel's interests above everyone and everything else. The article was first published in May of this year, but it's important because the US politician she backed for president is Trump.
Donald Trump wants Stephen Feinberg, a Jewish neocon billionaire who profits from military contracts, to be the deputy defense secretary. Feinberg has not yet said if he will accept the position. Trump's pick for defense secretary is Pete Hegseth. Hegseth is very unlikely to be approved by the US Senate for defense secretary.
December 2, 2024
More information about Christian clergyman and founder of the megachurch Potter's House in Dallas, Texas, and his medical episode has come out. It seems that after suffering a medical emergency during a sermon, Jakes was not healed through prayer as the Christian Bible promises but was taken to a hospital for medical care. Doctors performed emergency surgery on Jakes. Jakes released a video to the faithful stating, "Many of you don't realize that you're looking at a miracle. I faced a life-threatening calamity, was rushed to the ICU unit, had emergency surgery, survived the surgery." He asked church goers to "praise God that we're not planning a funeral." No one asked Jakes why he didn't follow his own Christian Bible which instructs the faithful to pray for the sick and they shall be healed. Also, he sounds like he doesn't want to go to heaven just yet.
In Morgan County, Missouri, Tyler Wade Gibson and his wife Bailey Alexus Gibson, performed an at-home circumcision on their son on Thanksgiving Day. It didn't go very well, so they took him to University Hospital. The hospital contacted the Department of Social Services who contacted police. Tyler Gibson was charged with child abuse and performing an unauthorized surgery. The victim's mother was charged with child abuse because she assisted the victim's father. Tyler Gibson told police he “conducted research and prayed a blessing.” His prayer didn't work because he and his wife were not prepared for the amount of bleeding that occurred.
The Jewish state of Israel has repeatedly violated a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now, Hezbollah has responded with strikes into Israel.
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November 29, 2024
It's well known that Israel's powerful and wealthy lobby in the US virtually writes US foreign policy for the Middle East. This interesting and informative article covers Israel's powerful and wealthy lobby in England.
In India there was religious violence when a government ordered survey of a mosque was going to be conducted to determine if a 16th-century mosque was built over a Hindu temple. Muslims started rioting to prevent the survey.
"Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of light — ever taken."
November 28, 2024
Hal Lindsey, a Christian teacher of biblical prophecy and author of the bestselling book The Late Great Planet Earth, has died two days after turning 95. For decades Lindsey claimed the return of Jesus was right around the corner. One of his primary sources for his mistakes was the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. He should have read what the Deist Thomas Jefferson wrote about that nonsensical book before taking it seriously. Jefferson wrote that he “considered it as merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams."
The state of Texas will soon have the Christian Bible incorporated into classes for public school students. This insightful article by a rabbi explains from a Jewish perspective why this is a very bad idea.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
November 27, 2024
The Jewish state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza has now killed at least 11,300 children. The number of the children killed by Israel and the US weapons US politicians from both parties give to Israel who are under the age of five is 3,100.
Here's an interesting and insightful article about the International Criminal Court which recently issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The Israeli officials are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the murder and starvation of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.
Christian clergyman T.D. Jakes, a bestselling author, entertainment executive and traveling evangelist, had a medical episode while preaching and is currently under medical supervision. This begs the question, why would a Christian who claims to believe the Christian Bible, which promises healing through faith, have need of medical care?? God gave us reason, not religion.
November 26, 2024
This article is about what some Christians call intergenerational healing. It involves "sins" committed by people which are passed on to the sinner's children and grandchildren. The irrational Bible teaches about sin and curses being passed on to succeeding generations. Thankfully, Deism is free of all of this type of nonsense.
"Israel has approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip." Just as the agreement was being announced, Israeli warplanes kept up their bombings, killing another 24 people.
Project 2025 is a blueprint written by Christian theocrats to turn the US into a Christian Bible-based theocracy. During his campaign Donald Trump said he has nothing to do with it. Now, he's appointing people involved in creating Project 2025 to political positions.
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 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 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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I don't think Hal Lindsey would care at all about what Thomas Jefferson wrote about the Book of Revelation (November 28, 2024 item). To Hal Lindsey the Book of Revelation was part of "God's Word" (no matter how "nonsensical" it might at first seem), and Thomas Jefferson was somebody who rejected "God's Word".
Good riddance to Hal Lindsey (November 28, 2024 item). This business about the "Rapture" has always appealed to baser (and really juvenile) and not nobler desires and aspirations. Be one of those "in the know" about how God's plan is going to work out, and be one of those who is going to be "raptured" away while the rest of the world, the "unsaved" world, suffers through the "Great Tribulation".
Believing in a cruel God (i.e. who sends those who do not come to "accept Jesus Christ" in this present lifetime to an eternity in hell), it would make sense that he would have no trouble supporting Israel.
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.