Utah, and the Mormon Church, have experience a virtual ground swell of affinity fraud, in the last few years. More than usual, even. As it is, Happy Valley – that is to say, Utah County, the home of Brigham Young University – alone, is arguably the MLM (multilevel marketing) capitol of the world. Especially…
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. In fact, December 7 falls on the same day of the week this year – Sunday – as the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor did, in 1941. But many folks living today, might understandably wonder at the United States Victory over Japan, that hinged on a pair of equally infamous…
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go – and gets up and goes. – John Erskine
This post began as a response to comments left by WordPress blogger goaloflifeadmin, concerning my previous article, Deconstructing the hard edge of religion. It was getting a bit long – and I felt it touched on some things that deserve a closer look. goaloflifeadmin, I don’t know why you would automatically assume that atheists…
Apparently (having never done it myself) folks who go ‘crabbing’ on various Atlantic beaches, in the moonlight, never have to worry about using lids, to keep track of the crabs being tossed into their buckets. And it’s because crabs in a bucket evince a peculiar dog in the manger attitude towards any of their…
By Scott Kaelen Scott Kaelen – Flogging a World of Dead Horses Note: This is an extraordinary opportunity for us, here at Modern Atheist .org, to make available to our readers this remarkably detailed timeline – of some 80 seminal benchmarks to the initial rise of life, and its subsequent evolution – over the 4…
It’s not at all uncommon to encounter any number of agnostic non-believers (no, really – there are such folks), apparently up on all the science, but who are still unable – in good conscience – to tic that last box as confirmed atheists. Who default to an almost truculent allusion to that old ‘God of the…
Utah files Amendment 3 Appeal with the Supreme Court of the United States It was reported earlier today, that Utah has officially filed its appeal with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Seeking a reversal of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling – on the matter of same sex marriage…
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