- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from WENY News in Elmira, NY, as President Trump holds a photo-op with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and manages to define his entire presidency in 16 minutes.
- After the tornado outbreak, my President signs the covers of Bibles in Alabama as if he authored them. Andy Borowitz explores the theological event that follows as God offers to replace the Bibles signed by Trump.
- Tommy Christopher reports on the text of an early message from White House folks to Michael Cohen. They now say it was meant only as reassurance that Trump wasn’t mad at him. I dunno. I think Tommy’s right. Message sounds a lot like the promise of a pardon.
- Vixen Strangely takes all the Manafort pleadings, judgments, sentencing, and state level indictments and explains, in her clear careful way, what it all means, what it all signals.
- The Onion tells us of a new campaign pledge to build a 2,500 mile intercontinental riverwalk.
- Columnist Max Boot wants to retire the term “neocon.” driftglass is good with that as long as we come up with a good substitute. He has a suggestion.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson knows what is in our hearts better than do we. As gun safety advocates, we are not at all interested in gun safety. In fairness I have projected the same sort of insight onto gun owners
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass is angry at discovering that an embryo, not yet developed into a fetus, can sue a 16 year old girl for wrongful death.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one time pastor, current atheist Bruce carefully explains to evangelicals why threatening atheists with hell never works. Ever.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Neil Bamforth looks into the case of a young woman who, at age 15, ran away to join ISIS, then came back. Neil suggests she may be the victim of mob mentality.
- How will Michael Jackson be remembered? At The Moderate Voice, Rachel Hope of the University of Victoria seeks an answer in the legacy of a famous author who dominated much of the first half of the 20th century
- Professor PZ Myers posts as poignant a farewell as I have seen for a while. He forever misses his little sister who died as a child.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil finds an interesting instagram ad on a city light pole.
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If you have a good case for your religion, you don’t lead with, “You’re going to be sorry for not believing!” or “Only God can forgive you for being so despicable.” This is only effective on the vulnerable (e.g. those in need, those who feel guilty, those who are lonely) and those who are already interested in joining or otherwise primed to believe. The fact that evangelicals so often resort to such arguments is a testament to how little evidence they actually have, how low their own standards for belief are, how little thought they have put toward the matter, and how little they know about other religions and atheism. The continued use of poor strategies also indicates an inability or unwillingness to learn.
What’s strange is how otherwise intelligent people, who function perfectly well in the real world and have normal relationships with other people and stay informed, can be so oblivious. They just have a massive blind spot where religion is concerned.
“Doesn’t look like anything to me.”