At 5 pm tonight we gather outside the gate on the Samoset Resort in Rockport (corner of Waldo and Samoset) where Senator Susan Collins will be holding a party with her wealthy donors — we will stand in nonviolent, candlelit silence to oppose Collins’ record. Join us. audacitycat.com/action-while...

ACTION: While Susan Collins Dines With Wealthy Donors at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Peaceably Assemble to Petition for Redress of Grievances - The Audacity: Creative Action Together

Pop-Up Action: Peaceably Assemble to Petition Absentee Senator Susan Collins for Redress of Grievances Where: Outside the Samoset Resort, At the Corner of Waldo Ave. and Samoset Rd. in Rockport, stret...

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Reading a book is an act of resistance. Ask for a copy of The Nerd Reich at the counter of Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York, with the discount code of BOOKCLUB10. Then come to the book discussion event at 5:30 PM Nov. 19 to plan an activist response! www.facebook.com/events/16846...

Ross Douthat says that people should close their minds and commit to Christianity... ... or the Christian god will judge and torture them. That does not sound like the kind of religion any sane person would commit to. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/viol...

Violent Demands To Close Our Minds Are Not Rational, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

In chapter 4, Douthat is now making unsubstantiated claims that people should be tortured if they don’t close their minds and fully commit to believing the right religion. Douthat also cites a chapter...

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This podcast episode casts a long overdue skeptical eye toward the collaborative story told by Ross Douthat and Michael Shermer about a magical radio that allows ghosts to speak. It's not paranormal for radios to transmit sounds. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/repa...

Repaired Radios That Play Music Are Not Proof Of God, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

Ross Douthat and Michael Shermer alike are completely unable to provide any reason to believe that dead people can turn on radios to communicate with living people. Douthat once again cannot justify h...

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Ross Douthat claims that Catholic "miracles" are a rational basis for religious belief, but those supposed miracles include a magic foreskin of Jesus, which 31 different Christian churches claimed to have as a religious artifact. Miracles are crass lies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Foreskin of Jesus Is Not Magic, Ross Douthat

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CBS Pundit Ross Douthat extols literal belief in Catholic church miracles including the supposed magic powers of the mummified foreskin of Jesus, which according to Catholic "scholarship", ascended to Heaven to become the rings of Saturn. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/the-...

The Foreskin Of Jesus Isn’t Magic, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

Ross Douthat's church has preached about miracles performed by the head of St. John the Baptist, and the foreskin of Jesus, which is miraculously supposed to be held as a holy relic by 31 different Ch...

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Ross Douthat argues that the Christian god is not all-powerful after all, but is a wimp who is unable to defy mathematics. Ross Douthat's fine tuning argument is crude and sloppy. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/cosm...

Cosmological Constants Don’t Fit With Ancient Gods, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

Ross Douthat argues that a magical creature from outside time created a universe that is 99.99% deadly in order to make a safe home for human beings. He calls that “fine tuning”.

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Angry Christian Nationalists keep downvoting a podcast critically examining the weird religious ramblings of Ross Douthat, but not one of them can leave a review explaining why they disagree with it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat

Christianity Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ross Douthat wrote a book called Believe - Why Everyone Should Be Religious. This podcast reviews that book, page by page, to seek whether the arguments Ross Do...

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Ross Douthat says that reasonable people believe in ghosts and demons, fairies and magic spells, psychic powers and angels. Ross Douthat is off his rocker.

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Ross Douthat, in his book Believe, argues that it's rational to belong to a church because ghosts really do haunt people and genies are real, and demons will get you if you don't go to church. Why does anyone take Ross Douthat seriously? www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/beli...

CBS 60 Minutes Christian Nationalist pundit Ross Douthat wrote a book in which he claimed that animals are just machines, like water pumps or bicycles. Douthat says that's proof that belief in religion should be an obligation, not optional. Douthat says this is "logical". 🤯

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Ross Douthat advocates for the weird Christian Creationist belief that animals are machines in the same way cars are machines, and he expects us to treat this as evidence that his religion is literally true. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/a-re...

Ross Douthat advocates for the weird Christian Creationist belief that animals are machines in the same way cars are machines, and he expects us to treat this as evidence that his religion is literally true. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/a-re...

Animals Are Not Machines, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

Ross Douthat says that it’s common sense to look at animals as if they are machines that are produced in a workshop by a supernatural spirit. No one has ever seen such a thing taking place.

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Voices of Audacity Podcast EPISODE 15: An organizer opens up about Graham Platner, weekly 'barn talks' with community members, & care for the environment on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheAudacity... on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t.... on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6clJiTB...

The Audacity: Creative Action Together in Maine

The Audacity is a group of local folks in rural Midcoast Maine who are organizing artistic and creative action together to resist the bigotry, corruption, and totalitarianism of Donald Trump and his p...

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EFT Tapping is magical pseudoscience. Reality is reality. It isn't created by "your energy". Forget the quantum energy BS. It's total bunk. Emotion Freedom Techniques are not trustworthy. Tapping is faith healing, not science-informed therapy.

Zombie Jesus will eat your brain - literally or metaphorically. Christianity asks you to stop thinking and simply believe that you should place your faith in a man who died two thousand years ago and then rose from the grave determined to rule the world. www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Zo...

"Zombie Jesus Will Eat Your Brain" Essential T-Shirt for Sale by irregulargoods

Zombie Jesus will eat your brain - literally or metaphorically. Christianity asks you to stop thinking and simply believe that you should place your faith in a man who died two thousand years ago and ...

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Maybe establishing a federal government office that encourages wild religious beliefs untethered from reality among those who are trained to attack with guns, bombs, and killer robots is a bad idea. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/podcast/enco...

Encouraging Wild Religious Beliefs Among Those Trained To Kill — Stop Christian Nationalism

Pete Hegseth has launched an Office of Religious Affairs in the US Military that will administer religious tests for people holding the most grave public office of all: Soldiers who are trained to kil...

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Right Wing Catholic political commentator Ross Douthat says in his book Believe: "Religious belief is not just an option but an obligation." You can't more direct than that. Christian Nationalists like Ross Douthat want to make Christianity mandatory www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/cath...

Catholic Fascism Is Not An Obligation, Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism

In his book Believe, Ross Douthat insists that his trad Catholic religion is an obligation for everybody on Earth. That's not a moderate position.

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EFT Tapping gurus have no shame. They claim that if you employ their services, you will magically manifest huge piles of money. Money doesn't come from tapping your face. Emotional Freedom Technique is not therapy. It's a fraud.

Christian Nationalists want to teach the Bible in public schools? If they really want that, they should teach Book of Revelation chapter 9, in which Jesus advocates torture as a tool of social control. They could use this book in the curriculum. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/store/p/bibl...

Bible Story — The Fury of Jesus and Abaddon — Religious Board Book — Stop Christian Nationalism

There are a few Bible stories that people tell over and over again. This isn’t one of those. It’s the story of the time Jesus shared his plans to work with ferocious monsters to unleash a months-long ...

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I’m not mad and afraid of immigrants. I’m mad and afraid of fascists with bibles. They’re are the real threat to America. 🇺🇸

The US military has declared that there are no atheists in its ranks. At the same time, Pete Hegseth prays to Jesus to kill his enemies. American Christianity has become a cult of brutality.

Emotional Freedom Techniques - also known as EFT tapping - is a gimmick used by scammers to take advantage of gullible people. Tapping your face doesn't bring you money or love or mental health. Be good to yourself. Walk away from EFT tapping scams.

Don't become a victim of EFT tapping scams. Tapping your face and mumbling affirmations won't make you rich, won't make you mentally healthy, won't get rid of that bad boyfriend. Emotional Freedom Therapy is New Age mumbo jumbo. Don't fall for it. Get genuine professional help.

The benefits of EFT tapping in the Emotional Freedom Therapy are remarkably... nonexistent. It's empty faith healing. Don't fall for this gimmick. You can't tap your way to health. You already know this is a scam. You're smarter than EFT.

Why does Ross Douthat begin his book Believe, which is supposed to be about the rationality of religion, with a bizarre poem by a Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, which claims that the Christian god is a smudge of petroleum? That ain't reason. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/a-po...

A Poet Who Destroyed Art And Split His Family, Ross Douthat? — Stop Christian Nationalism

Why does Ross Douthat begin a book that’s supposed to be about the rationality of religion with a bizarre Catholic poem about how the Christian god is a smudge of pure crude oil? Ross Douthat is so de...

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EFT Tapping is snake oil. You don’t create mental health and happiness by obsessively tapping your face. So-called Emotional Freedom Therapy is just a rehashed kind of faith healing. Don’t fall for the gimmick. Say no to EFT Tapping scammers.

EFT tapping is religion. It asks therapists to tell their clients that they have invisible magic energies that do not exist. "Emotional Freedom Therapy" is hocus pocus, not scientifically-valid therapy. Leave EFT to the New Age festivals. Leave EFT out of therapy.

"EFT research is decidedly dodgy, and any evidence for what looks like efficacy can be explained by the placebo effect, or by the confounding presence of techniques stolen from other theoretical models, such as relaxation techniques..." untrapped.com.au/the-truth-ab...

EFT Tapping is based on the belief that tapping your face obsessively while muttering the same phrases over and over is a reliable path to mental health. Emotional Freedom Therapy is snake oil. It's not based on reliable independent science. It's faith healing. We can do better.

The EFT tapping space is full of bogus health claims, asserting that EFT helps boost the immune system, or helps cancer patients, or even increases financial income. Emotional Freedom Therapy is hocus pocus New Age religion. It is not real science. Buyer beware.

EFT tapping is pseudoscience: "...lack of evidence that tapping on acupressure points is the active ingredient that resolves psychological disorders, serious methodological flaws with EFT research & the incompatibility of EFT with the ethical practice of psychology" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...