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Category Archives: Secularism

Of Comets, COVID, and Conceit

Posted on July 26, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →

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Science and Secularism Podcast: Progress Report

Posted on April 14, 2020 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

Well, here’s the YouTube channel banner graphics I just received yesterday. A take-off on the Apollo 8 photo (still copyrighted, I believe), that says what I want to express at Continue Reading →

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Posted in Science, Secularism | Tagged New Enlightenment, Science, Scientism | 1 Comment ↓

Essay on Anti-Materialism, the Spiritualist Assumption.

Posted on March 1, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →

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Posted in Nonbelief, Philosophy, Religion, Secularism, Skepticism | Tagged Religion, Science, Scientism, spiritualism | Leave a reply

D.O.N.E. YouTube Channel in the Works, FINALLY! WooHoo!

Posted on January 26, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

The “Defenders of the New Enlightenment” (D.O.N.E.) YouTube channel of science and secular podcasts hosted by yours truly, Dr.Z, the Unbelieving Scum, is FINALLY in the works. I’m about a Continue Reading →

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MCFH Goes to the Fair!

Posted on August 18, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

My new secular group, the McHenry County Freethinkers and Humanists, but 9 months old now, had a booth at the McHenry County Fair 2 weeks ago in my hometown of Continue Reading →

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Cultural Inertia: Old Ideas Die Slowly Especially if Institutionalized.

Posted on May 15, 2019 by waz

I coined the term “cultural inertia” some time ago to describe the phenomenon that some ideas just hang around if widely-held, if they are the majority view, and the average Continue Reading →

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Posted in Anti-theism, Nonbelief, Religion, Secularism, Skepticism | Tagged Religion

Gen Z moves left, even “Conservatives.”The Kids are Allright.

Posted on March 26, 2019 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

Gen Z, those born between 1995 and 2010, many of whom are 18-24 right now and of voting age are, according to this NYT article Young Voters Keep Moving Left Continue Reading →

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Breastfeeding Revisited: from 2015!

Posted on March 20, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

I’ve posted 3 times here on the idiocy of American attitudes toward breastfeeding, in public, or just the sight of bare breasts displayed by women (Oh, horrors): here, Here, and Continue Reading →

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Reluctantly: On Free Will (and Consciousness).

Posted on February 21, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

Do we have free will, or does our brain choose everything we think or do as a result of previous brain states and sensory inputs, and it could not have Continue Reading →

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While the Earth Turns Right, the World Inevitably Moves Left

Posted on January 12, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

I’ve blogged numerous times on the apparent inevitability of liberal progressive ideas eventually overcoming the undying resistance of Conservatism: here, Here, and HERE…and there are 1/2 dozen more blogs on Continue Reading →

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Posted in History, Politics, Secularism | Tagged Conservatism, New Enlightenment, women's rights | Leave a reply

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