#fundamentalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fundamentalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NeilCarter #Certainty #Fundamentalism #Religion
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I was a public school teacher for thirty years, and although I loved the children dearly, I would never enter such a homophobic profession the second time. Bigotry is the root of all evil. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #bigots #bigotry #bigot #bigotryisthrootofallevil #bigotryisevil #endbigotry #eschewbigotry #gay #gayrights #homosexual #homophobia #racism #sexism #xenophobia #christianvalues #christianbigotry #fundamentalists #fundamentalism
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#RationalWiki is a #wiki that is open for all to edit, no account is required.
The focus of RW is:
•Analyzing and refuting #pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
•Documenting the full range of #crank ideas;
•Explorations of #authoritarianism and #fundamentalism;
•Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.New articles this month include (part 1/2):
•Monitoring Bias (aka i/o), a far-right Twitter account
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monitoring_Bias•Richard Hanania is an American conservative, grifter
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania•Scandza Forum, an annual gathering of neo-Nazis
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scandza_Forum•Ray Blanchard, a sexologist and adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Blanchard•Vulcan, a hypothetical planet that was thought to orbit the Sun in an orbit inner to Mercury before the XX Century
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Jack Thomas Chick (1924–2016) was an American cartoonist and the owner, manager, and editor of Chick Publications. Chick's publishing house is responsible for hundreds of abominable illustrated evangelical gospel tracts known as Chick tracts, tiny comic books printed on cheap paper that are ubiquitous in subway stations, rest stop bathrooms, inside the dresser drawers of hotel rooms, and littered around other public places nationwide.
As a general rule, Chick tracts read like the ramblings of an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, #homophobic, etc. fire-and-brimstone #conspiracy theorist that makes Pat Robertson look sane and mellowed out in comparison. The tracts create an "us vs. them" mentality where those who accept the message are part of the righteous few and the rest are sinners in league with the Devil.
#RationalWIki #jackchick #anticatholicism #antisemitism #homophobia #fundamentalism #christianity #trolls #conspiracytheories #comics
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Lead, and what it does (and doesn't) tell you about the age of the Earth
The fact that we can estimate the Earth's age, over a 4.5 billion year span, to within 1% accuracy, is pretty flippin' amazing.
And yes, lead plays a role. Though some people get that wrong.
Anywho, if you're into that sort of thing:
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/9e5739104e4b0139d8fb002590d8e506
#Science #ScienceBitches #AccurateScienceIsBetterScience #AgeOfTheEarth #Lead #Creationism #Fundamentalism #LymanStewart #RedShift #CepheidVariables #RadiometricDating #geology