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Threats to Religious Liberty: Real and Imagined

No Faith Value  with Ronald A. Lindsay
February 26, 2016

Religious liberty is under attack. A number of presidential candidates have made this claim, and it was one of the key issues in Thursday night’s Republican debate. One of the moderators, Hugh Hewitt of Salem Radio, even asserted that his worries about religious liberty keep him up at night.

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Natural Born Zodiac Killer

The Morning Heresy  with Paul the Morning Heretic
February 26, 2016

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.      

I'm still reeling from that GOP debate last night. I mean, holy buhjeezus what a spectacle. I just. I just don't even know. 

Oh wait, yes I do. Right after the debate, Trump speculated that the IRS was auditing him because "I'm a strong Christian." He really said that! Relatedly, Ben Radford is about to release a new book, Bad Clowns. SEE WHAT I DID THERE

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On What Claims are Permitted

by David R. Koepsell
February 25, 2016

Should we police our internal arguments in public or in social media for the sake of not revealing to our opponents our weaknesses, or shall we air all claims that are not outright lies given that doing so provides the best basis for their testing?

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A Cascade of Computations

The Morning Heresy  with Paul the Morning Heretic
February 25, 2016

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.      

The coming of the Depp to the Reason Rally is making news. Our evil plan is working.

Matthew Sheffield created NewsBusters, so I'm not exactly a fan, but at The American Conservative, he gets something very right: The right will have to contend with the fact that "nones" are the future:

In 2016 and beyond, Christian conservatives face a choice. They can embrace identity politics and become a small group of frustrated Christian nationalists who grow ever more resentful toward their fellow Americans, or they can embrace reality 

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