If our current news media were around back when the Kent State massacre happened—"Protests turned violent today…"
#apologists
#Belief It Or Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZO-0oUwGQA
What are the best arguments for the #existence of God according to #apologists? And why do some people reject those #arguments.
Created by Trevor Poelman
#atheist #atheism #exvangelical #myths
From a review in #TheGuardian
What I know from others' summaries makes me think these profs do protest "partisan bias" too much, suggesting that the #pandemic wasn't as bad as the political response, and that #maskMandates and #lockdowns should have been based on public opinion.
After a few decades on the #internet the highlighted text told me everything I needed to know.
#books #apologists #WolvesInSheepsClothing #populism #CryptoMAGA #details
![Screenshot from The Atlantic. It has the cover of Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee's book "In Covid's Wake," with a thumbs-down emoji some enterprising and no doubt good-looking person pasted over it.
The text of the article shown is: Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
The highlighted text is " The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning"](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/291/157/090/309/408/original/3781c005097b2f88.png)
Unique ≠ True: The False Marketing of #Christianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cilw7ojxo0
" #Christian #apologists often claim that #Jesus' presence in multiple #religions proves his #divinetruth—but that #logic doesn’t hold up. In this video, I break down the flawed reasoning behind the idea that uniqueness equals truth. We’ll explore which religions actually claim Jesus, which don’t, and why cross-cultural mentions aren’t the evidence they’re made out to be. "
Calmly Destroying #Christian #Apologists with #Science for an Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22W7I3yV-NY&list=WL
#sundayschool #pseudoscience #LGBTQIA
#God #Forgives #Rapists & #Murderers… But Not This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULU27JMtOk
#Christians claim that God is all-forgiving—so why does the #Bible say there's one sin He can’t #forgive? In this video, I break down the doctrine of #blasphemy against the #HolySpirit, examining the verses, #contradictions, and #theological confusion surrounding it. We also expose how #Christian #pastors and #apologists can’t even agree on what this sin actually is or if it can be committed today.
Born Bigfoot Believers?
A review of Justin Barrett's book “Born Believers”, where he makes the claim that babies have an inborn propensity for gods.
#GodlessGranny #Religion #Atheism #Apologists #Theocracy #Christofascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRmVT2Wp-c
Meanwhile in the Far-Right, Christofascist, Manosphere
Mel Gibson blathers nonsense God-Beliefs with Joe Rogan
Here's Why
#Paulogia #Atheism #Apologists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLv78iaJ7as
@seachanger i can care, for those that DESERVE IT.
I draw a line at
#fascists
#racists
#misogynists
#transphobes
#billionaires
#colonialists
#imperialists
#climatedeniers
#warmongers
#apologists for above
What Happens When #Christian #Apologists Disregard #Scholarly Opinion?
Best Method To Defeat #Evangelical #Apologists: The Ghost Buster #CounterApologetics Technique
https://lutherwasnotbornagaincom.wordpress.com/2024/07/17/best-method-to-defeat-evangelical-apologists/
#atheist #sundayschool #evangelism
Oh no, my dearest Andreas, fuck you and fuck the Zionist, genocidal horse you rode in on.
And now, as is custom, also fuck right off.
#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #apologists https://mastodon.social/@AndyGER/112480403901391241
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP
The GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
— Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
— said that #Russian #propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.
“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it
— and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television]
— on our airwaves,” McCaul said.
He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate,
💥and they actually model Russian propaganda.”
Asked which Republicans specifically he was talking about, McCaul said it was “obvious,” before staff intervened and asked that the conversation go off the record.
These comments are the most significant to date, but they’re not the only ones.
A GOP impasse over additional funding for #Ukraine’s defense against Russia
— combined recently with Tucker Carlson’s deeply weird promotion of Russia and Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies from Moscow
— has apparently occasioned some self-reflection among Republicans about their colleagues and allies:
• Former vice president Mike Pence, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and a top aide to Sen. Todd Young (R-Ill.) have warned their party against serving as #apologists for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Recent presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies, among others, “#empower #Putin.”
• And Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) shot back at criticism from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) about Cornyn’s support for Ukraine, urging Paxton to “spend less time pushing Russian propaganda.”
Around the same time, former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said there is now “a #Putin #wing of the Republican Party.”
In 2022, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the pro-Putin sentiments in some corners of his party “#almost #treasonous,” while allowing that perhaps his fellow Republicans were just #attention-#seekers.
“It’s unthinkable to me, it’s almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that,” Romney said.
“But, of course, they do it because if they get shock value and it’s good to get more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network. It’s disgusting.”
And then there is what may be the most famous example: when House GOP leaders in 2016 privately joked about Trump being #compromised by Russia, as later reported by The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/when-top-republican-says-russian-propaganda-has-infected-gop/
In the modern western world, most people would have no problem saying #slavery in all its forms is #evil. This is a non-controversial position to take, but one which runs counter to the laws of the #bible. Due to this, #apologists have had to find ways to justify slavery and condone the laws laid out in the bible. Really, at the point that your #worldview puts you in the position of having to justify slavery, it should make you question that worldview.
https://new.exchristian.net/2024/03/the-problem-with-slavery.html
The Problem of Design
https://new.exchristian.net/2024/02/the-problem-of-design.html
#Apologists love to say we see signs of #design in nature and design requires a designer, however this is usually done by cherry-picking a couple of examples and ignoring the many terrible or strange designs that we find.
#religion #mythology #christianity #atheist #science
DeSantis Ran the Worst Campaign in History
The bizarre decisions behind a $130 million debacle.
Tim Pawlenty’s and Scott Walker’s presidential campaigns can breathe a sigh of relief. The mantle of Worst #Republican Presidential Campaign Ever has been lifted from their shoulders…by the crew that ran #Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign into the dirt.
Revisionist histories are being written even before the candidate has been officially buried, with #DeSantis staffers and #apologists offering a variety of nonsensical explanations. However, we need no gossip from inside sources to understand what…
#Iowa
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/19/the-desantis-team-ran-the-worst-campaign-in-history-00136527
@TomMarcinko@wandering.shop When I read Lash's article, I immediately thought of the 17th century arguments about #HowManyAngelsCanDanceOnTheHeadOfAPin. #Conservatives and #Apologists have their heads so far up their asses that they are staring into a #Blackhole and have traveled that far back in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F
We have to respond to the pro-Israel bile on the social media | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/11/30/we-have-to-respond-to-the-pro-israel-bile-on-the-social-media/
#Israel #apologists #propagandists #social media #bile #nonsense #lies
“I always wondered about the leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin, & those aristocratic sympathizers & peace activists who excused Hitler. Today’s #Hamas #apologists & #atrocity-deniers, w/their robotic denunciations of ‘settler-colonialism,’ belong to the same tradition but worse: They have abundant evidence of the slaughter of old people, teenagers, & children, but unlike those fools of the 1930s, who slowly came around to the truth, they have not changed their views an iota.
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