Religion
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Study: Belief in a “Controlling God” is Bad for the Environment
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: What’s the harm in religion? It’s a tough question to answer, in part because so many people in the world are religious, and those religious beliefs take so many different forms, that it’s hard to tease out what actions…
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No, You Don’t Need To Go To Church Right Now.
I live in a suburb about 10 minutes from Detroit, one of the hotspots of the COVID-19 outbreak. Gretchen Whitmer, our governor, or “The Woman From Michigan” as Donald Trump has called her, has actually been handling the pandemic pretty well, with one minor exception. Churches and other houses of worship are exempt from the stay at home order that…
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Dead Sea Scrolls Bought by Hobby Lobby are FAKE
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The Museum of the Bible has admitted to being the victim of a massive fraud: it turns out, there is no god and the Bible is just nonsense made up by a bunch of semi-literate goat herders. Just kidding!…
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Televangelist Offers to Cure You with Silver, not Prayer
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: God, I’m so tired of talking about, reading about, and thinking about COVID-19. I know, let’s do a video mocking some good old-fashioned skeptic-bait: televangelists! Let’s see, how about good old Jim Bakker? Remember back in 1987 when the…
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Quickies: Cultural Appropriation, Satanic Pregnancies, and a Few Separated Families Reunite
On Cultural Appropriation: A Latina Novelist Calls Herself out Amid the “American Dirt” Controversy, Salon: Whether or not you’ve followed the controversy over Jeanine Cummins’ book, this article provides a nuanced look at cultural appropriation worth a read. Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Called for “All Satanic Pregnancies to Miscarry.” It Was a Metaphor, She Says, Washington Post (free article limit): I’ve…
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It Doesn’t Matter That Christianity Today Supports Trump’s Impeachment
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: “Finally,” reads a viral tweet with 4,600 likes and 1,300 retweets, “Evangelical Christians are rejecting the immorality of Donald Trump. This is it. He’s finished.” Wow, I guess that’s it, huh? Evangelicals have rejected Donald Trump. Our long, national…
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New Study Says Atheists are Smarter Than Christians, but What Does That Mean?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Redditors suddenly cried out in ecstasy and then came in their pants. So I checked and yep, it’s a study saying that atheists are smarter than Christians.…
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Richard Dawkins Loves Evangelicals if They Hate Social Justice
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Good news, Richard Dawkins is back on his bullshit. I mean, I’m not sure he was ever off his bullshit because I feel like ever since he had that stroke a few years back someone wrestled his social media…
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