https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-12-16/call-me-miss-cleo-documentary-takeaways Late-night TV viewers of a certain age were once well-acquainted with a certain TV psychic by the name of Miss Cleo, who made “call me now” her catchphrase. The documentary “Call Me Miss Cleo,” which began streaming on HBO Max on Thursday, tries to decipher whether the woman was a
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Remember when Mormons used to claim Native Americans were descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes and that your DNA would magically become Jewish after baptism and other ridiculous nonsense? ############ https://www.dw.com/en/dna-study-fills-gaps-in-indigenous-americans-ancestry/a-72558361 The first people to colonize the Americas migrated from modern-day Russia about 20,000 to 30,000 years
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No, this story isn't from Gilead -- yet. Fetishization of fertility isn't about "life," it's about men controlling women's bodies. Keeping a dead person alive is the ultimate control. You have no say, you have no voice. You don't count. To them, you are merely a "vessel" or "pod" for their seed. Again I Ask: Why theocracy? It didn't solve problems in Iran
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Wonder if they'll try to ban those too.
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Hieronymus User Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sheesh could be here all day Then show us funding, an actual policy, or lesson plan used by a school to "indoctrinate" students. Remember I said things like anti-bullying, tolerance, or secular, scientific fact based education aren't indoctrination. ############ “Friendly Father”: N
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah yes. > > But in politics, performance art still has its > place. Maybe that's the point. The Mormon and EV anti-porn "crusade" seems to be more about tribal loyalty and virtue signaling than anything else. ############ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/mike-jo
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It's impossible, of course. It would simply make arbitrary censorship legal and make the creative process very difficult. What is and what would not classify as "porn?" Anything religious fundamentalists want to classify as "porn." Again I Ask: Why do people want to imprison themselves inside walls of their own making? ############ https://reason.com/2
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Women have fewer children in educated, prosperous populations. This has been known for many decades. Unlike many Latin American countries where religion and machismo play a role in limiting womens' rights and access to abortion, racism and fear of "losing control" or being "outbred" are the primary factors. Religion and concern for the "unborn" are canards a
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This will be a problem for many decades to come, if not centuries... ########## https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H-jWKuwFhA Hermann's Last Hit - Göring Bombs Exeter 2021 In February 2021 a huge WW2 German bomb was found and detonated inside the city of Exeter. The circumstances of its discovery and disposal led the explosion being termed by British courts an official act of war
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of public school "indoctrination." Here's a salient example. If you look at social media, fundie preachers are constantly screaming about schools making kids gay or trans. This is impossible. Ask any doctor or psychologist. They (including several Mormon leaders) said the same thing in the 1950s and 60s about US colleges turning students into "communists." So,
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https://www.wvlt.tv/2025/05/10/41-magnitude-earthquake-felt-across-east-tennessee/
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Leo has African ancestry via mixed race grandparents from Louisiana. Do Mormons today even remember the "Curse Of Cain" or has that been conveniently flushed down the memory hole? ############ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/pope-leo-xiv-family-history Pope Leo XIV, who on Thursday was elected as the first-ever US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church, has
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The following is an example of the bizarre, non-scientific world that religious fundamentalists want us to live in where facts and reason are replaced by spirits and demons. ************ * Old grandmother down the road gives you a nasty look * A week later, a violent thunderstorm passes through your area and hail ruins your car * You accuse the old woman of being a witch and putting a
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When Hitler was a homeless street artist in Vienna before WW1? When he was in prison in Germany after the failed 1923 coup attempt? As chancellor? I've read several biographies of Hitler. His inner circle would have never allowed any fringe sect religious missionaries to get anywhere near the Führer.
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Anyone with a basic middle or high school science education knows that human beings cannot directly control the weather. Is religious education (or lack thereof) to blame? ############ https://gizmodo.com/noaa-warns-of-attacks-on-radar-systems-by-militia-that-thinks-they-are-weather-weapons-2000599162 The group responsible for the attack warning that impacts National Weather Service
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Mormonism isn't a religion. It's a cult. It's a shell game. They make it up as they go along .
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BradIey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mormonism and May 8th have more in common than you > thought. > > Every American raid carried a unknown mechanical > computer (later tube computer) in the lead > airplane. > > Hitler didn't have any idea what knocked out their > 88mm defensive strategy Brits were too scared to > ve
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blindguy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've pointed this out > before) many people are wedded to the beliefs they > were taught as children, even when the factual > information surrounding those beliefs has been > solidly and conclusively proven to be false. I > think people hold onto their beliefs as a bulwark > against change in an
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The entryway into my elementary school had something called "The Hall Of Freedom." On the walls were copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights -- and copies of the surrender documents from WW2. I wasn't there, it happened long before I was born, but I remember. This was Adolf Hitler's &qu
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Invite GAs from all over the world? Lock them up in the SLC Temple? Proclaim "We have a Prophet" in Reformed Egyptian?
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https://apnews.com/article/cardinal-robert-prevost-card Date of Birth: Sept. 14, 1955 Nationality: American and Peruvian Position: Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops; president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America under Francis Experience: Archbishop of Chiclayo, Peru; head of the Augustinian religious order Made a cardinal by: Francis Francis brought Prevost, 69, to
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Crazy EV religious fundies live in an imaginary, alternative universe in which all sorts of things are happening that in reality do not happen. You can pretend all you want to, but reality wins in the end -- no matter how hard you "believe." You can't "will" anything into existence unless you claim to have godlike supernatural powers...but that's even more far-fetche
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If so, then tax churches next. ########## https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/white-house-harvard-tax-status President Donald Trump says Harvard University will be stripped of its tax-exempt status, redoubling an extraordinary threat amid a broader chess match over free speech, political ideology and federal funding at the Ivy League school and across American academia. “We are
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So? I've had Chinese food for Christmas.
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This is getting ridiculous...and scary. Hinduism existed centuries before Christianity, and most Western yoga isn't religious. They think everything that they don't know is some kind of "threat" or "invasion." ############ https://www.ydr.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/24/school-bans-namaste-apologizes-yoga/82237318/ KENNESAW, Ga. — A Kennesaw element
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