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05/29/2026

No religion necessary for this bit of moral advice:

Paragraph 213 of Magnifica Humanitas just made Middle-earth part of Catholic Social Teaching. In Chapter Five, we found this footnote, number 187: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King, Part III, Book Five, Chapter IX, New York 1965, 190. Right there. In a

05/19/2026

05/18/2026

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05/14/2026

https://freethoughtnow.org/christian-nationalists-take-the-stage-sunday-expect-plenty-of-nonsense/?mc_cid=21f86b367e

This Sunday, May 17, top Trump administration officials will be speaking on the National Mall as part of the “Rededicate 250” prayer and worship event. Pastors and politicians will join together to promote a revisionist narrative that America was founded as a Christian nation and must be “rede...

05/08/2026

Viewing The Declaration of Independence, visitors reflect on America at 250

America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be sustained.

04/27/2026

Purge Of The Experts

“When oversight bodies are weakened at the same time funding is gutted, the result is not efficiency. It is opacity, where decisions can be made without scrutiny and justified after the fact with political talking points rather than empirical evidence.”

Trump’s firing of the National Science Board is not just an attack on science, but part of a broader campaign to bring independent institutions under political control

04/15/2026

https://tinyurl.com/SAVE-Act-Revealed
Fact vs. Fiction

80% support voter ID. 28% support the SAVE Act. The more people learn, the less they support it. Here's what's actually in it — provision by provision, with primary sources.

04/15/2026

https://tinyurl.com/The-Culmination-of-Blasphemy

I will admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude for the Catholic Church over this issue.

Trump's attack on the Pope and portrayal of himself as Jesus are the culmination of a series of blasphemies coming from the White House in recent weeks.

03/26/2026

https://tinyurl.com/For-Those-Who-Deserve-No-Mercy

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hosted a monthly Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon, the first since the Iran war began.

03/19/2026

Join us for another Freethinker Night Out At The Cinema!