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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February
February 28, 2025
Pew Research Center released a new religious landscape study that involved questioning 35,000 people. The study shows the number of people leaving Christianity has leveled off, at least temporarily. The number of people who are considered "nones" because they don't belong to any religion is leveling off at 29% of Americans. The vast majority of nonsense are not Atheists, they hold Deistic beliefs in that they believe in God/a Higher Power.
Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting in his current administration was started with a prayer in Jesus' name by U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Christian megachurch clergyman Scott Turner.
Oklahoma State Senator Dave Rader introduced a bill to exempt disabled students from receiving corporal punishment. State Senator Shane Jett opposed the bill by using quotes from the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament. Both Rader and Jett are Christian Republicans. It's concerning the increasing amount of times theocratic US politicians use teachings from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible to promote legislation.
February 27, 2025
Here's an interesting and informative article about how the theocrats of the religious right in the US are working to erode the Jeffersonian principle of separation of church and state. Their anti-free speech and bible pushing is based on their plan as stated in Project 2025.
Religious organizations who have pedophile clergy often reach settlements with the victims of their pedophile clergy. Nondisclosure agreements (NDA) are too often a part of the settlement. They have a powerful negative impact of the victims, even to the point of suicide. Now, a Christian Republican state legislator in Texas, Jeff Leach, is working to outlaw that practice.
The Republican House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), instructed GOP staff to refer to the West Bank by its biblical name, Judea and Samaria. This is in line with Judaism. As the Jewish father of the Hebrew Bible-based and warmongering neoconservative movement Leo Strauss pointed out, “Judaism is a concern with return; it is not a concern with progress. ‘Return’ can easily be expressed in biblical Hebrew; ‘progress’ cannot.”
February 26, 2025
In India, two tantrics/exorcists sacrificed a 10-year-old boy. They did this in order to heal the boy's mother. If people turn their backs on their innate God-given reason, bad things will happen.
The Jewish state of Israel has launched airstrikes in southern Syria, including hitting Syria's capital of Damascus. It claims it's doing this for Israel's security. In reality, it's another move towards a Greater Israel based on the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament.
Here's an interesting and informative article about Israel's very powerful and very wealthy lobby in the US. It shows how many US politicians from both parties are bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.
February 25, 2025
"The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the U.S. State Department for suspending refugee assistance to programs run by church agencies under USCCB auspices." Perhaps the Catholic bishops should replace the tax dollars that are no longer going to their refugee assistance programs with the money they have from not paying taxes themselves.
Pope Francis is still hospitalized due to a severe respiratory illness. Catholic cardinals in Rome will recite "the Holy Rosary for the health of the Holy Father." Francis is also suffering kidney failure, and has undergone a blood transfusion and required high-flow oxygen. Since the Christian Bible claims Christians who pray in the name of Jesus will get whatever they ask for (John 14:12-14), it seems that this Bible promise is false. If it was true, Francis, nor any Christian, would not need medical care. It should make Christians also wonder about the Christian Bible's promise of salvation.
"The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services is seeking a supplier on behalf of the Oklahoma State Department of Education to 'provide a contract for the purchase of supplemental instructional materials that effectively integrate the Bible and character education into elementary-level social studies curriculum, providing students with a foundational understanding of the role these elements have played in shaping the nation.'” The Jeffersonian wall of separation of church and state is being battered by the Christian theocrats like never before.
February 24, 2025
Thousands of children who are immigrants to England from Congo and other parts of Africa have been accused of being involved in witchcraft. Some of them have suffered exorcisms and not all of them survived the exorcisms.
In what looks like a false flag operation, Israel claims that several buses were blown up by "terrorists" from the Palestinian West Bank. It sounds kosher since all the blown up buses were empty and in parking lots after hours. This more than likely staged event is the reason Israeli PM and warmonger Netanyahu sent Israeli tanks into the Palestinian West Bank, which religious Jews like Netanyahu refer to as Judea and Samaria, names that were used for the area prior to the Romans wiping Judea and Samaria off the map and renaming the area Syria-Palestina. Israel's goal in Gaza and in the Palestinian West Bank is based on the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament in which the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Bible claims God gave all of that land, plus much more land, to the Jews for a Jewish state.
Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick said in a recent speech that Texas has "the most Christ-centered legislature" in America. The Christian theocrats never tire of working to subvert America into a Christian Bible-based nation and to destroy the US Constitution.
One of the reasons America's founders kept religion and government separate was to avoid America suffering the wholescale religious violence and bloodshed Europe had suffered at the hands warring Christian sects. Now that religion and government are beginning to mix in the US, we see signs that what America's founders prevented may soon become a reality in the US. Donald Trump appointed Christian clergywoman Paula White-Cain to run the White House Faith Office. White-Cain is a Pentecostal. This has upset some clergy members in more conservative Christian sects.
February 21, 2025
In Congo, Islamic terrorists associated with Islamic State kidnapped and beheaded 70 Christians. One thing that would stop horrific religious violence like this is if a large enough number of people adopted Thomas Paine's Deistic principle of detesting everything that is cruel.
Christian theocrats in Idaho have had another victory in moving the state and the US closer to becoming a Bible-based theocracy. The state legislature passed a bill that would set aside $50 million in tax dollars for private education, which is a school voucher system. The majority of private schools that receive tax dollars from school voucher systems are religious schools and the overwhelming majority of those schools are Christian schools. This is a clear violation of the Jeffersonian principle in the US Constitution of separation of church and state.
Israel First members of the US Congress, along with many Christians and religious Jews, want Donald Trump to have the US officially recognize the Palestinian West Bank by its biblical names of Judea and Samaria. The area wasn't officially known by those names since 135 CE when Rome defeated the Jews in the Jewish Roman Wars.
February 20, 2025
The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) is losing 26 churches due to its strong biblical stance against gay people. The Christians in the 26 churches that are disaffiliating from the CRC, unlike their Christian Bible, are more accepting of gay people. They must ignore Bible verses such as Leviticus 20:13 in which the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Bible claim 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."
"The New York State Education Department is cutting off public funding to two Brooklyn yeshivas and ordering parents to find alternative educational arrangements for their children next year, citing the schools’ failure to meet secular education standards." The Hasidic schools focus on Judaism and not only things like math, science, English, etc.
Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Parish in Utah will have on exhibit "holy relics" which will be part of healing masses. One of the alleged holy relics is allegedly a piece of the cross that Jesus was allegedly crucified on!
February 19, 2025
Roman Catholic priest Vincent Lampert was the exorcist for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. That, in and of itself is a scam since demons and Satan are characters created by the clergy to use fear to control people. Lampert has retired from his make believe job as exorcist. Now, there are other scammers setting up social media pages pretending to be Lampert and ripping people off for thousands of dollars.
Here's an interesting and insightful article about the real reason many US politicians want to ban Tik Tok. It has to do with anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian posts that were put up on Tik Tok since the start of the Jewish state of Israel's brutal slaughter of Palestinian children, women and men in Gaza.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant sect in the US, has acknowledged it financial difficulties brought on by pedophile clergy. The leaders claim they will survive, even though they're not keeping up with the needed abuse reforms allegedly due to financial problems.
February 18, 2025
Religious hate and violence and stupidity showed themselves this past weekend in Miami. A Jewish man saw two people in a car who he thought were Palestinians. He shot both of them and told police he shot and killed two Palestinians, as if that would be acceptable. It turned out that they were not Palestinians, they were Israeli Jews visiting Miami. Jews and Palestinians have similar DNA with both traced back to the ancient Canaanites.
"Pope Francis admitted himself to the hospital on Friday after struggling with a respiratory infection." Is it fair to ask Christians who are sick and seeking and receiving medical aid why they don't rely on what their "holy" book the Bible promises Christians, that they can do all the things Jesus allegedly did, plus "greater things than these" (John 14:12-14) and that whatever they ask for in the name of Jesus they will get?
At St. John Vianney Catholic Church of Orlando, a man assaulted a woman and her elderly mother over a handicapped parking spot. He's since been arrested. The big question is why do Christian churches, whose "holy" books promise physical healing through prayer, even have handicapped people and parking spots?
February 17, 2025
Today is the anniversary of the Christians burning alive the freethinker Giordano Bruno on February 17, 1600. They killed him because he applied his innate God-given reason to Christianity and the universe. Christianity unleashed is cruel and destructive.
We frequently hear about Christian clergy being abusive, such as the pedophile Catholic priests. This article is about a "spiritual healer" in Kashmir who was convicted of systematically sexually abusing his followers.
A bill has been introduced in the state legislature of Idaho that would require verses from the Bible to be read every day in public school classrooms. The King James version of the Bible would be used. This is a direct attack on the Jeffersonian principle in the US Constitution of separation of church and state.
February 14, 2025
Genocidal Israeli PM Netanyahu wants the Israeli war on Gaza to continue until Hamas is destroyed. Hamas is fighting a guerilla war, which means Hamas cannot be destroyed, it can only be weakened. Even former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is an Orthodox Jew, pointed out that Hamas has managed to replace all of its fighters who Israel killed with new fighters. The Jewish state has killed tens of thousands of children, women and men. This fact is a powerful recruiting tool for Hamas.
A group of religious Zionist rabbis in Israel have blessed Donald Trump as "God's messenger." This is because Trump, like all US presidents since Lyndon Johnson, is subservient to Israel and it powerful lobby and to billionaire Jewish donors. His subservience then makes America subservient to the Jewish state.
In some good news, the North Dakota House of Representatives killed a bill that would have mandated the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school cafeteria and state-funded college.
February 12, 2025
People who run religions feel that they and their religions are entitled to special treatment from governments and society. In many states in the US they have exemptions from everything from child neglect and manslaughter laws regarding religious parents withholding medical care from them in order to follow their religious belief in faith healing to expecting to have religious exemptions regarding paying taxes while also expecting to receive tax dollars via school voucher programs. Now, some Roman Catholic universities expect to have exemptions which allow them to prohibit faculty from unionizing. As the article points outs, this goes against Catholic teachings. However, it wouldn't be surprising for the Catholic teachings to change since the change would financially help Catholic universities and possibly the Roman Catholic Church.
When Israeli PM Netanyahu came to the US recently, he did not meet first with leaders of Jewish organizations, he met with leaders of Christian evangelicals. Netanyahu expressed to them his gratitude for their firm support during the Jewish state's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, but he also said he is concerned about younger evangelicals being less supportive of Israel's genocide. That's great news that a large enough number of younger evangelicals are losing their blind support for Israel!
This article states, "Women cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church, but many feel God is calling them to do more." The women who believe this must not believe the Christian Bible is the Word of God. The Christian Bible is very clear that not only should women never be ministers of any kind, but women should keep silent in church. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 clearly 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 "reason" for this misogyny is given in verses 13-14 which states, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." If Adam was not deceived, why did he eat the forbidden fruit? I think the real lesson here is to never trust talking snakes!
February 11, 2025
Israeli occupation forces in the Palestinian West Bank shot and killed a pregnant Palestinian woman. This is in line with the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament at Hosea 13:16 which says in part, "...their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
Not all nations have their politicians so beholden to the Jewish state of Israel as the US does. Israeli occupation "soldiers" who are suspected of war crimes committed in Gaza fear being arrested when traveling outside of Israel. Some of them have already been targeted.
St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond is a court case the US Supreme Court agreed to hear. This very important case involves Gentner Drummond, the Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, who "filed an action against the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board and its members seeking to invalidate their contract with St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School." The contract would use tax dollars to pay St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School to promote Christianity. This is a very important case because if the US Supreme Court rules in favor of the Catholic school, it will overturn the Jeffersonian principle of separation of religion from government. It will then open the floodgates of unlimited tax dollars going directly to religions to promote their particular religion as this article from a Jewish publication makes clear. Previously, cases like this would never even be considered by the US Supreme Court. The fact the court agreed to hear it means they are seriously considering ruling in the favor of religion and against Thomas Jefferson's principle of separation of church and state.
February 10, 2025
In Israeli occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces raided a bookstore, confiscated many books and arrested the two brothers who own the bookstore. Israeli officials claim the bookstore carried books that incite violence. Just last week, Israeli occupation forces did the same to another bookstore. I'm glad the Hebrew Bible doesn't have content that incites violence! :)
"US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a recently unearthed interview." This will cause much more religious violence in the Middle East and probably in other places. Religion causes too much violence.
A Lutheran church in San Francisco, California, which is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has its own witch! The Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, at Exodus 22:18 has God commanding the Jews to kill witches. It states, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
February 7, 2025
Donald Trump was busy going to two prayer breakfasts yesterday. He told the people of faith, not of innate God-given reason, that his administration will crackdown on attacks against Christians. He also announced the appointment of Christian clergy/con-woman Paula White to lead the White House faith office. Even though key American Founders were not Christians, they were Deists, there is no White House reason office.
With this being Super Bowl weekend, this article is about how Mormons are becoming more acceptable to gambling. It's difficult to understand how any of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions could be opposed to gambling since their God gambled with Satan regarding Job!
Christian clergyman and sexual predator Mike Bickle, founder of International House of Prayer megachurch, made his rape victims read Psalm 51.
February 6, 2025
Donald Trump plans to takeover Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle East. He said that once fighting stops between the Jewish state of Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, Israel can give Gaza to the US to own. There are many problems with that, two of which are that Israel does not own Gaza, so it's not theirs to give. The second is that it would violate the Hebrew Bible which claims God gave all of that land to the Jews for a Jewish state. If Israel gave it to the US, it would violate the Hebrew Bible.
The Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem are also under threat of the Jewish state's occupation claiming all of that land. Donald Trump is starting to sound like he would back them in their bible-based land theft.
Egypt is working to prevent Trump's plan to have the US takeover Gaza and to expel the 2 million Palestinian people living there.
February 5, 2025
Donald Trump's vice president JD Vance recently spoke today at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, DC. In his speech Vance said, “Religious freedom flows from concepts central to the Christian faith.” He apparently forgot about the religious wars and persecutions Christianity carried out in Europe, from the 30 Years War which killed millions of people to the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions which murdered hundreds of thousands of people. The last person murdered by the Spanish Inquisition was the Deist Cayetano Ripoll. He was murdered on July 26, 1826 because he was a Deist and was teaching other people about Deism.
Almost 30% of Americans are classified as "nones" in that they do not belong to or believe in any religious organization. The Roman Catholic Church as been losing more that 6 believers for every new convert. This has caused them to create ways for nuns to hook nones and bring them into the Roman Catholic Church. One thing they cannot offer nones is God-given reason based teachings.
A new children's book for Jewish Israeli children is Alon and Lebanon. It's about a Jewish Israeli boy who wants Jews to occupy southern Lebanon.
February 4, 2025
Free speech was attacked by police in Manchester, England over the weekend when police arrested a man for burning a copy of the "holy" book of Islam, the Quran. Instead of arresting him on blasphemy charges, which, in reality, it really was, they charged with with hate speech.
"A Christian couple in India has been sentenced to five years in prison under Uttar Pradesh's "anti-conversion" law, reportedly the first sentence of its kind in the country." Something all religions have in common is that when they are not separated from government, they persecute people in other religions and often people in their same religion but of a different sect of their religion. America's Founders did a great service to us all when they freed us from religion by separating religion from government.
Israel's slaughter of tens-of-thousands of Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were children and women, did not go over well with the rest of the Gentile world. To help improve its image, the Jewish state is spending millions of additional dollars to spread Israeli propaganda online, through CNN, the New York Times and through every avenue possible.
February 3, 2025
In Taiwan, the mother, father and brother of a 29-year-old man who died during an exorcism were sentenced for their son's and brother's death. The parents and brother believed the victim was possessed by a ghost. During the exorcism the mother stuck her hand down her son's throat, which eventually caused his death by suffocation. Religion/superstition has a very high price. Thankfully, God gave us our innate reason and not any of the world's religions!
Warmonger Israeli PM Netanyahu will visit Donald Trump in the White House tomorrow. This interesting article raises the question of whether or not Trump will be subservient to Netanyahu as was common for Joe Biden, or if Netanyahu will be forced by Trump to be subservient to Trump.
Christians are protesting NBC's reality show Deal or No Deal Island due to use of the word goddamn. The Christians claim it's taking God's name in vain. However, according to the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Hebrew Bible, God himself said, at Exodus 34:14, his name is Jealous because he's a jealous god!
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January
January 31, 2025
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, two cases that would require state governments to finance religious schools. The cases will be argued before the court in April.
A bill in the Montana state legislature that would require the 10 Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom is making progress towards becoming a law. The theocrats never rest.
This article is about the need for more consultants in order to produce more Christian Bibles in sign language. The fact that Christians cannot heal deaf people, that's why they need more Bible in sign languages, makes it clear promises in the Christian Bible which promise Christians will get what ever they ask for when they pray for it in the name of Jesus are empty and false promises. What does that say about the promise of eternal life in heaven??
January 30, 2025
In Sweden, a refugee from Iraq who was an Atheist who publicly burned copies of the Quran, Salwan Momika, was shot and killed. Police are questioning five people. Many people under the influence of a "revealed" religion use religious violence against people who are nonbelievers in their "revealed" religion. This is because they can't use God-given reason to defend the nonsense of their "revealed" religion.
Sales of Christian Bibles in the use has increased by 22%. As to why the increase, Christian clergyman Tim Wildsmith said, “There’s higher levels of anxiety and doubt, and so people often think, I’m going to find a Bible. People are looking for a sense of peace.” Deists need to point out to people currently under the influence of Christianity the harmful Bible passages which, if believed, bring anxiety, not peace. For just a couple of examples there are 2 Chronicles 18:22 says, "the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets" and Luke 12:5 has Jesus teaching people to fear God by saying, "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him."
This article is about how a growing number of people are turning away from science and doctors and towards religions. This too often results in the deaths of children whose faith-based, not God-given reason-based, parents follow the teachings and promises in the Bible and other "holy" books of healing through faith and prayer.
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 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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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.