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How To Tell Your Family You Are An Atheist
New article from TIME: See full article here: https://time.com/6128721/tell-your-family-you-are-an-atheist/
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Diwali will be a public school holiday in New York City starting in 2023
The time has come to recognize over 200,000 New Yorkers of the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain faiths who celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights,” Rajkumar, who introduced legislation to recognize Diwali, said in the press conference. She called Anniversary Day “an obscure and antiquated day,” as compared to Diwali, which is celebrated by a…
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Is It Important To Be Able To Explain Your Thinking?
You know, for instance, in math, you should be able to explain your thinking. So, it’s not enough to “know” 3X2=6, but you need to illustrate it, perhaps with manipulatives: you make groups of three with blocks, select two of those groups, and you get six total things. Is it a problem that this child…
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Grooming Minds: Indoctrination vs Argumentation
Is difference between this above child and the more mild cases of religious upbringing of children we see one of degree, or of kind. Picture a child who is not vocal like this one, but holds similar or more mild conservative Christian views. Here is a helpful analogy video on religious child grooming: inundating a…
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Secular Web Kids Tails: Darth Harley For A Time Such As This
“Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this. (Esther 4:14).” As was usually come to pass at the end of the day, Darth Harley walked down the Angus Path, particularly pleasant and orange on a autumn eve such as this, and reflected on the day at school. His teacher…
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Talking to Kids About Morality Without God
One thing you sometimes hear is that without God there could be no objective morality (the oughts), because if moral rules/principles don’t get their authority from God, where could their authority come from? Of course, this way of thinking is wrong. Children from a very young age understand what being a “friend” means without God…
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
One of the traditional “proofs” of the existence of God is the beauty of the world. The claim is: surely as the beauty of a painting suggests an artist, so too does the beauty of a sunset suggest a divine artist. One problem with this way of thinking is that beauty is a highly personal…
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Darth Harley and Bob the Fish
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The Sins Of The Father 2/2 (Gnostics)
This post is the last in this miniseries looking at the problem of evil. The previous posts are linked below. This last post begins below the linked posts: This interpretation offered over the above previous posts in the miniseries regarding God as evil/stupid is related to what we find in the ancient Gnostic interpretation of…
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Sins of the Father
Previous 3 Secular Web Kids posts links, new analysis following these below: In the last series of posts on “What is the problem of evil?” we raised the possibility of God’s supreme recklessness and poor judgment in allowing earthquakes, floods, famine, pestilence, Sin, etc. God did such a poor job creating and managing that things…