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Humanity's history of using torture and carving out exceptions for harming other humans into submission proves that our morality is not consistent.
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Religious commentators are trying to soothe scared believers that atheism is just a fad. In reality, skepticism of organized religion is quickly growing.
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Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.
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A poll of New Jersey residents shows a very disturbing trend in politics: a steep rise in conspiracy theories substituting for news and facts in potential voters' minds.
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Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.
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According to some environmentalists, the worst part of war is the carbon footprint.
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Science is under attack in classrooms and pop culture. The NCSE is trying to change that.
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The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.
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When your worldview gets popular, you're going to get followers who are in it only to jump on the bandwagon.
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Of all the sins that worry the religious right, lust, in the form of pornography, seems to dominate their every other waking thought.
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People are reading more articles with which they agree, and are twisting satire and humor to fit their existing worldview, even when they're told they're being mocked.
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After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
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Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
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GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
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Disease prevention suddenly turns partisan thanks to America's most out of control congresswoman...
