Religionazi Education In Texas
The campaign to inject religion — specifically, protestant evangelical Christianity — into the nation’s public schools ran into a bit of a snag a few years ago, when “intelligent design” was found by a...
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Thomas Jefferson & the Enlightenment Removed From Texas Curriculum
Yes, you read that headline correctly. This is not a joke. It’s deadly serious. The reactionary, Religious Right-led Texas Board of Education has just ordered Thomas Jefferson, one of the most...
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The Pseudohistory Channel Strikes Again!
As if the presence on the so-called “History” channel of programs on UFO hunters and Nostradamus haven’t already clued you in on this, a special program they ran tonight proves this channel ought to be...
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Texas Neocrusaders Take On Textbooks
The belt-buckle of the Bible Belt, Texas, is acting up again. And it’s the same people — the state’s Board of Education — as I’ve blogged about previously (e.g. here, and here, and here). This time...
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Google Will Bring The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
A lot of ink has been spilt over the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of texts initially found in caves near the Dead Sea in 1947 (with more being found in subsequent years as nearby caves were scoured)....
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Rick Santorum Lies About The Crusades
Lots of Christians are embarrassed by the Crusades, the series of military expeditions by western European Christians against Muslims (and on one occasion, eastern Christians) in the Middle East, in...
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Religious Right’s Favorite Historian Is No Historian!
David Barton is popular among the Religious Right, at the moment. He’s a Christofascist’s Christofascist, happy to tell Chrisitianists around the country that the US was originally founded as the...
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Religious Rightists Completely Ignorant Of History
The Religious Right is relentless in its determination to rewrite history so as to place themselves — and their current political causes — back in time, even though most of their efforts, such as...
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Could Jesus Have Had A Wife?
I’m sure this will throw a lot of Christians into hysterics, but it seems there’s this 4th century papyrus fragment, in the Coptic language, that quotes Jesus as having had a wife. The New York Times...
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Vatican Declares “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” A “Fake”
The Vatican has decided enough is enough, when it comes to the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” that I blogged about back when it was released. They just aren’t having any part of it. Not only are...
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Glenn Beck Rewrites History, Establishes American-Israelism
By now anyone who’s read my blog knows that Glenn Beck is a lying Christofascist ignoramus of the highest order. It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged about his insanity, but I just came across something...
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Bill O’Reilly Kills History In “Killing Jesus”
When I heard Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s screaming, tantrum-throwing prime-time gadlfy, was writing a book about the life and death of Jesus Christ, I groaned inside. Lots of people over the years have...
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Jefferson Cty CO May Torpedo History Curriculum
Conservatives have strange ideas about how teaching works. For instance, a lot of them think teaching evolution in science classes — which is currently the only known scientific explanation for our...
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Turkey Goes Berserk Because Pope Mentioned Armenian “Genocide”
Pope Francis is, in a lot of ways, refreshing. As I’ve noted a number of times, he frequently walks to the beat of a different drummer. Sometimes he steps on the toes of his own Church, but other times...
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Ben Carson, the Biblical Pyramidiot
I’ll grant that Dr Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and current Republican candidate for president, is probably a very smart guy in many ways. Correction: Make that “he must be” a very smart guy in...
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Nat Geo and “the Real Jesus”
Christians love to assume their religion is founded on historical fact. Specifically, they’re absolutely certain their Jesus lived and walked the earth in the first decades of the 1st century CE. This...
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Nothing Political Is Anything Like the Real ‘Salem Witch Trials’
Another day, another plaintive, hyperbolic whine from one of the Groper-in-Chief’s minions. That’s really routine, and not “news,” to be sure. Everything is “the worst ever,” the most horrible, and on...
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No, Today’s “Knights Templar” Are Not a Medieval Organization
It’s not often that there’s a news story with a medieval angle, here in the US. But they do come around now and then, and since I studied the Middle Ages in college, it’s natural that they catch my...
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More Pseudohistory About Templars in Canaan, CT
I’ve already blogged about a cadre of Knights Templar who’ve set up shop in northwestern Connecticut. Theirs is a completely-modern group loosely inspired by the medieval Knights Templar. Although they...
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No, the Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction Won’t Be a “Christmas Star”
Most of my readers will have heard about this already, but in case you haven’t, at the time of the winter solstice this year (i.e. tomorrow), Jupiter and Saturn will pass very close to one another in...
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