It might strike some as surprising, but it shouldn’t. A study by academics from seven countries suggests that children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious families. According to the researchers, “Overall, our findings … contradict the common-sense and popular assumption that children from
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion Makes Children Meaner.
How could a set of rules, ostensibly designed to threaten people with eternal and damnation ever cause them to be less empathic and more judgemental toward others? I just don’t see that happening – commonsense tells me that people with religious dogma pounded into their skulls, if anything, should
Continue readingLeDaro: Christians drop, ‘nones (not nuns)’ soar in new religion portrait- U.S.A. Today
-The shrinking numbers of Christians and their loss of market share is the most significant change since 2007 (when Pew did its first U.S. Religious Landscape survey) and the new, equally massive survey of 35,000 U.S. adults.- Read more here.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Satan, Football, and the ‘Persecution’ of Christians.
“My special magic is true and yours isn’t.” This is shall be the running theme of our look at the recent hullabaloo at Bremerton High School, in Washington state. The story breaks down as this. Football Coach guy leads a christian prayer on the 50 yard line after each
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion Vs Reality
I wouldn’t buy the house either. :> Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, Religion Versus Reality, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion Vs Reality
I wouldn’t buy the house either. :> Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, Religion Versus Reality, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Can All Be Manipulated
Theramin Trees has put up another wonderfully well done video. I am once again in awe of his clarity and thoroughness. Truly, his is some of the highest quality content on youtube. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend watching his other videos after you’ve finished with this one. Filed under: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We Can All Be Manipulated
Theramin Trees has put up another wonderfully well done video. I am once again in awe of his clarity and thoroughness. Truly, his is some of the highest quality content on youtube. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend watching his other videos after you’ve finished with this one. Filed under: Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Force Would Be With Me (My Religious Loophole)
Good Sunday Morning to my fair readership here at DWR. Yes, you heard me right, the loophole in my militant atheism has been exposed! If becoming religious came along with the Star Wars movie force like powers – I’d be in like Flynn. Because honestly, who wouldn’t want to do
Continue readingNiqab nonsense—much ado about nothing
I am no fan of the niqab. Hell, I’m no fan of religion. But if a Moslem woman wants to wear a niqab at a citizenship ceremony for religious reasons, I can’t think of a single reason why I, or the state on my behalf, should prevent her. As long,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Supply Side Jesus
The mounting Neo-liberal oligarchy couldn’t exists if American christians actually followed the teachings of Jesus, thus Supply Side Jesus was born to fill the gap. Bill Mahr paints the funny, yet troubling, picture of what much of mainstream religious discourse has become in the United States. Marx said
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how we should call out the Cons’ bigotry surrounding the niqab for its own ill intent as well as for its effect of distracting from more substantive election issues. For further reading…– The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision confirming that the niqab is a matter of religious freedom
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Dieseldammerüng
image taken from despair.com’s latest t-shirt Before we get to this message’s main event, I’ll throw another brief shoutout to Pope Francis. Sure, he leads one of the world’s socially most regressive organizations, but he seems to be pulling in the right direction, and ultimately, he’s not in fact that powerful — his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Post Christian America – Oh Yah Baby!
Let’s put it this way, I’m glad he’s on our side. 🙂 Enjoy 8 minutes of christian smack-down courtesy of Brian Dalton aka Mr. Deity. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Mr.Deity, Post Christian America, The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – God’s Life Hacks
Hard to argue with this top 10 11 list of religious christian life hacks… 🙂 10. How to Deal with Annoying Neighbours. 9. How to Peel a Banana. 8. How to Get an Abortion. 7. Foreskins: Perfect Gift for Any Occasion. 6. How to Get High Without Using Drugs 5.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religious Liberty is Shit – Kim Davis and Her Struggle with Reality
It was nice. I was on a lovely sabbatical, my time was restful and chock full of repose, languidity, and tranquility. I was defended from hearing about the woes of the Oppressed Christian Majority in the United States. My ire toward the loon-factory that is organized religion was at an
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice -You’ve Never Seen a Ghost (Holy or otherwise).
The universe is an amazing thing. While you are “sitting still” reading this post, you, me, and everyone else are hurdling through space at an unfathomable speed. This is almost as amazing as the fact that we, for the most part, don’t even notice that we’re doing it. The Earth rotates
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: HarperMan
Not surprisingly, the musician is being investigated by the paranoid and vindictive Harper Government. The Streisand Effect is working though, and www.HarperMan.ca is a hit today. When I tweeted #Harperman last June & you RTed it @saskboy, I did wonder if #cpc thugs would come after Tony. They sure did.
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos » politics: yep, I’m going to write about the Duggar scandal.
I’m writing about the Duggar family because I think what the situation is a good one for shining light on the different ways people interpret things. The Duggar family need to decide how they will handle it, and they will decide that but everyone else who hears about the case
Continue readingA. Picazo: The Assault On Planned Parenthood: A Long Campaign Against Reproductive Rights
In 2011, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, a move deemed necessary to ensure no taxpayer dollars were used on abortion despite existing federal legislation which prohibits funds granted under Title X from paying for such services. This vote, a “culmination of a
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