Donald Trump floated recycled false 2020 election claims during a national address Thursday night.
Kash Patel fired two FBI intelligence analysts that refused to join the investigation into Georgia elections.
The Justice Department finally shared evidence with Minnesota law enforcement 6 months after the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Todd Blanche sat for his confirmation hearing before the senate judiciary committee and testified that his justice department does not target political enemies.
In this final episode of the season, there are three parts which support the concluding chapter of The Christian Past That Wasn't. The first part is former Secretary of Health and Human Services Ben Carson's false telling of Ben Franklin's call to prayer during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Carson said the delegates stopped and prayed after Franklin called them to prayer. They didn't. This is the kind of folklore which I correct in The Christian Past That Wasn't.
The second part of this segment is a brief analysis of Al Mohler's admission that the Constitution doesn't acknowledge any Christian foundation. This significant admission came in a short video this week. Even though Mohler is honest about one aspect of the Constitution, he considers the lack of explicit Christian language to be an error on the part of the founders. Here is where he is wrong and I respond to Al Mohler's opposition to the American Constitution.
The third and final part tracks with the Conclusion of The Christian Past That Wasn't. I discuss separation of church and state in light of the golden rule and the moral teachings of Christ. I end the podcast where I started it by examining the issue of posting copies of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. I come down on the side that posting the Decalogue is an imposition of one faith over others and thus an improper establishment of religion. As such it violates the golden rule. If I don't want someone to impose their faith on me, I shouldn't do that to others.
In the words of Texas state legislator John Bryant from the podcast, "That's not fair, and that's not American." Interview:
A new report issued jointly by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch details the hellish conditions inside Camp East Montana, America’s country’s largest ICE detention center in Texas. It alleges rampant abuse inside the facility, including brutal physical attacks by the guards and people being denied necessary medical care. The report relied on interviews from former detainees who survived it.
““Sacrifice?? What the fuck are you talking about??” she replied to his post. “They did not willingly sacrifice themselves.”
“They were killed because of the war you, Trump, and the admin, are waging on behalf of a FOREIGN COUNTRY, Israel. You mean their deaths fuel your bloodlust for a senseless war,” she added.”…
CNBC’s worst-states-to-live-in list sent Republicans into a meltdown because every state in the bottom ten voted for Trump, but the raw data tells a more complicated story than the outrage machine wants. Red states often do have lower taxes and cheaper living costs, but the tradeoff shows up in lower median incomes, higher uninsured rates, higher poverty, and weaker public investment. Texas and Tennessee can be great for business, cheaper for rent, and still brutal when people need healthcare, schools, or a safety net.
Between widespread cuts to vital government agencies, various disease and illness outbreaks, and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities, the United States is facing a convergence of crises with widespread repercussions.
Yet the Trump administration has hamstrung the federal government from addressing these crises – and in some cases is actively fanning them. Over the past year, the administration has moved to shrink the federal workforce, roll back environmental protections and policies intended to fight the climate crisis, reduced funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions...
0:01:26 - Marquise GT - Claims Jon and Sean are not open minded for rejecting old epistemic methods of ancestors that led them to conclude there is a God
0:26:55 - Bouldur - claims religion is all about hope to some people and questions why theists cannot accept some people cannot believe in God even if they tried but endorse their punishment.
0:34:56 - Shahed - Shares his personal ethical dilemma around islam and asks for advice on how to deal with close friends and family with religious beliefs.
0:46:12 - Soldierick - Claims evidence of God in the 2nd law of thermodynamics & that atheist physicists are biased. Gets educated by Dr.digg on fine tuning.
1:27:12 - AdamTaylor - Discusses the nuances of goldilock zone, universe as not being a closed system, life in the universe & fundamental laws in physics.
Superchats & bingo
1:50:37 - Moakmeister - Collective Brainstorming session on the argument points used by critical thinking rationalists like Sagan, Hitchens & theists that oppose them
Superchats
2:01:53 - John Mondragon - Argues that jon is making a positive claim in saying 'atheism makes sense in the absence of evidence for God'. Inquires what rationality and truth means.
2:16:07 - Dr.Joe - Asserts that inductive reasoning by humans can infer that supernatural claims were always debunked by scientific ones and not the other way around.
2:26:02 - Mark - Asks how atheists account for logic & what ontological stance they take to prove atheism. Claims logic (logos) comes from God and are uncreated.
2:40:31 - Kirby Newkirk - Asks for advice in dealing with judgemental theists in his network that look down upon him for his atheism.
Superchats
2:52:39 - Cameron - inquires about the special stream on deconstructing mormonism. Also shares about a police case in the united states that is related to people from mormonism
Superchats
3:05:01 - Common Ground - Discusses common fallacious arguments and inconsistent, hypocritical narratives in the bible.
Superchats & youtube hate comments.
3:31:33 - Sober - Discusses if a God can exist in concept and about the epistemic & cognitive limitations of humans & animals
3:43:59 - Dr.pepper - Posits that Universal constants & naturalistic phenomena, life all point to a design.
4:21:41 - Herb - Deep-dives into his deconstruction story and ethical inconsistencies in christianity.
4:36:17 - Buzz & superchats - Buzz shares a bit about his theistic past & reprimands the common motivated reasonings christians use.
4:45:46 - Christopher - Shares personal experience of an all good God and claims that eucharistic miracles happen in the world.
5:28:16 - Slytherinprefect - Argues that the bible is a codex, and that God does necessary evils for a greater good. Claims he believes in a monad.
5:32:42 - Dcs47 - Explains nuances in probability that debunks fine tuning arguments.
5:36:16 - Dustin k - Argues the bible is entirely symbolic & stories in it ought not to be taken literally.
Superchats
6:03:49- PVG - catch up & acknowledgement to the community.
6:08:21 - Marzby - Catch up. Discusses cognition in theists & AI psychosis.
Superchats
Member credits, member questions/comments, bingo, caller rankings conclusion. Interview:
