J.E.S.U.S.A. Trailer – YouTube
You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you – The Oatmeal
This is a comic about the backfire effect.
Source: You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you – The Oatmeal
FDA Calls Psychedelic Psilocybin a ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ for Severe Depression | Live Science
The FDA is helping to speed up the process of developing and approving a drug based on psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance in magic mushrooms, to treat depression.
Source: FDA Calls Psychedelic Psilocybin a ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ for Severe Depression | Live Science
‘Everything Is Not Fine’: Nobel Economist Calls on Humanity to End Obsession With GDP | Common Dreams News
“It should be clear that, in spite of the increases in GDP, in spite of the 2008 crisis being well behind us, everything is not fine,” writes Stiglitz. “We see this in the political discontent rippling through so many advanced countries; we see it in the widespread support of demagogues, whose successes depend on exploiting economic discontent; and we see it in the environment around us, where fires rage and floods and droughts occur at ever-increasing intervals.”
To Trump’s Evangelicals, Everyone Else Is a Sinner – The Atlantic
Two of the president’s prominent evangelical supporters are literally demonizing his opponents.
“As a result, they make the job of the so-called New Atheists so much easier than it would otherwise be. All militant atheists need to do is to point people—young people in particular—to conversations like the one between Graham and Metaxas and say, “Is that the kind of faith you want to be associated with?” If that was what I thought even remotely embodied true Christianity, I would want nothing to do with it.”
Source: To Trump’s Evangelic
Franklin Graham portrays those with whom he disagrees politically as under demonic influences.LEAH MILLS / REUTERS
David Bentley Hart Interview (8/2019) – YouTube
Abortion Is an Unwinnable Argument – The Atlantic
Why we need to face the best arguments from the other side
Now Let Me Tell You This Story–by James Ross Kelly from the Purpled Nail
I was in Peter’s cabin in southern Oregon, in the summer of 1981, Peter had finished at Crosier Seminary in 1965, and having done a stint as a Chaplain in the Navy, or maybe it …
Source: Now Let Me Tell You This Story
Agrarian Justice — Thomas Paine
Agrarian Justice was written in the winter of 1795–96 but remained unpublished for a year, Paine being undecided whether or not it would be best to wait until the end of the ongoing war with France before publishing. However, having read a sermon by Richard Watson, the Bishop of Llandaff, which discussed the “Wisdom… of God, in having made both Rich and Poor,” he felt the need to publish under the argument that “rich” and “poor” were arbitrary divisions, not divinely created ones.
Paine based Agrarian Justice on the contention that in the state of nature, “the earth, in its natural uncultivated state… was the common property of the human race.” The concept of private ownership arose as a necessary result of the development of agriculture since it was impossible to distinguish the possession of improvements to the land from the possession of the land itself. Thus, Paine viewed private property as necessary while at the same time asserting that the basic needs of all humanity must be provided for by those with property, who have originally taken it from the general public. In some sense, that is their “payment” to non-property holders for the right to hold private property.
Source: Agrarian Justice – Wikipedia
St. John One: One 