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Long-time computer programmer, also a retired Foreign Service Officer. Most recently the author of A God of Our Invention: How Religion Shaped the Western World (Apocryphile Press, 2023); Kirkus Reviews says "Get it!"
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Roll up your sleeves and play their game.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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Can anyone explain to me why one unelected civilian got to overrule a MAJORITY of the House - 137 Dems and 98 Repubs - who had sponsored funding for pediatric cancer research? Was Musk just trying to show he can demand anything and get it? Even something so heinous as taking money from dying kids?

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Trump's and Vance's election just raised the stakes in the culture war over sex (among other things). Sex has always been a big problem for Christians. I explore this in my book, A God of Out Invention, but in this article, I looked at Catholic hangups in particular. thehumanist.com/magazine/jan...

Reading posts about atheism leads me to suggest we're using the wrong word; it should be secularism, because "atheism" has become too politicized. Also, atheists can be as dogmatic as theists; secularists, on the other hand, just want religion to leave us alone.

From my book, A God Of Our Invention, published in 2023:

Trump's cabinet picks are based on his need for revenge: DOJ, HHS, Defense, and Intelligence all defied him in his first term, and the people he picked to lead them will destroy them, through incompetence if nothing else.