Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Moses Receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, painter unknown. Courtesy Nationalmuseum. (Colors enhanced by the author.) Religious leaders love to smugly claim moral superiority over us lowly atheists and humanists. Only God, they say, can possibly know right...
Feb 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
From THE DRAMA, ITS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND INFLUENCE ON CIVILIZATION, 1903 Where do morals come from? Theists love to claim that morality comes from God. Actually it’s worse than that: they claim that morality can only come from God, and that without religion,...
Jan 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear Pope Francis: If you’re going to be an asshole, own it. Don’t beat around the bush, and don’t try to spray air freshener on it. Have the courage of your convictions and just be an asshole. Last week Pope Francis made headlines by declaring that...
Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Se acabó el hogar — home is over (public domain) There’s a Southern Baptist movement to “get tough on divorce” that sounds laudable on the surface. Divorce is hard on everyone, especially the children. If there’s a path to reconciliation...
Jan 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The current huge leaps in the capabilities of so-called AI (artificial intelligence) systems is astonishing. Essays, pictures, cartoons, and conversations are coming out of these machines that are a giant leap forward, far surpassing the machines of just a few years...
Jan 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mastodon and a mosquito Mastodon is amazing … so far. But can it hold up? Mastodon initially solved the designed-in flaws of other social-media platforms, which maximize addictive behavior and corporate profit. But the biggest problem Mastodon faces is still...
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