Former WSU head football coach Nick Rolovich, fired Monday for not complying with the state’s vaccination mandate, intends to sue the university and “all parties responsible for” his termination, his lawyer announced in a press release on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 (read story her[...]
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
October 20th, 2021 - 2:38 pm § in Christianity, Health, Law and Courts, Religion, Schools & Colleges
What to make of Rolovich’s strange choice of a lawyer
October 16th, 2021 - 4:10 pm § in Biden, Christianity, Economics, Law and Courts, Politics, Religion
‘Tis the season to be silly, la-la-la
Politics ought to be about seriously debating important public issues. It’s not. Republicans, it seems, debate nothing and lie about everything. And a lot of what they want wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, be debatable anyway. For example, they want to use public schools to indoctrinate kid[...]
What an atheist Jew thinks of Christians
Specifically, members of Congress who think they’re Christians. Immediately, eyes roll, and people look the other way. Christians in Congress? Congress a Christian institution? Gotta be kidding! Congress is a mosh pit. So, Noah Berlatsky, the Jewish atheist, is a freelance writer trying to slo[...]
The anti-maskers’ “image of God” argument
A Catholic school in Michigan sued to overturn a state mask mandate, arguing that “God created us in His image, we are masking that image.” An Ohio GOP state legislator refused to wear a mask using a similar argument. Across the U.S., people claiming to be Christians tender arguments lik[...]
Aliens go to Hell
Creationist Ken Ham (bio here), who built the “Noah’s Ark” theme park in Kentucky (details here), doesn’t think there’s life outside of Earth. And if such life exists, they’re not entitled to salvation. “Jesus came to save us, not to another planet to save another race of beings,�[...]
You can’t appeal laws that don’t exist
“Justice Stephen Breyer denied a request … from a Maine church that sought to block the state from enforcing or reinstating Covid restrictions in the wake of the Delta variant surge,” CNN reported on Monday, August 2, 2021 (read story here). To be clear, the church was appealing re[...]
Is politics costing evangelical pastors their following?
Last week, a report issued by the Public Religion Research Institute, a respected polling organization (background info here), contained a stunning statistic: The percentage of Americans who identify with evangelical churches has dropped from 23% to 14% since 2008, a decline of nearly 40% in a dozen[...]
Who cares if photons from 6,500 light years away accelerate like crazy?
“Scientists have long known the Crab Nebula [is] a very energetic astrophysical object …. But recently, [they] discovered it is even more energetic than they thought. Using an array of state-of-the-art detectors on … the Tibetan Plateau, a team … detected light particles with[...]
It’s a bad idea for Catholic bishops to sanction politicians
“The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops … has voted to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether President Biden and other politicians should be denied the rite based on their stance on abortion,” The Hill reported on Friday, [...]