57 Symptoms in Need of a Cure

the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us,

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written.

And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all

[Actress Roseanne Barr] says people are eating babies and drinking their blood. Oh, and she says she's not crazy.

Symptoms In Need Of A Cure

45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’

Is 'Thank God for dead soldiers' protected speech?

Witch Trials & witchcraft

Just taking your first point, you give no attribution for the quote, which is a form of plagiarism, and you don't mention the fact that Roseanne Barr is also a comedian, one of whose jobs is to mock the silliness and stupidity of society.

Barr was quite serious; watch the video.

It's just beautiful. Like, I look out my bedroom window. I can't believe it, I see all these gorgeous little tiny baby deer in my yard eating the grass around my pool. I's so fantastic you know, because I can pull out my AR-15 and blow them just to Smithereens, legally.

1. [Actress Roseanne Barr] says people are eating babies and drinking their
blood. Oh, and she says she's not crazy.

Out of 8 billion or so people, I'd wager someone somewhere is.

2. North Texas megachurch pastor blasts Democrats as 'godless' and 'demonic'

If the religion is to be believed, that is to the default state of men, susceptible to worldly influence and energies. That said, I'm sure there's many a Republican who would fit that criterion. Problem is many religious folk simply hijack the idea of divine providence and tailor it to artificially inflate the purpose or justification of whatever it is they happen to be doing at the time.

3. Pastor Rebukes Democrats in Church

See Answer 2.

4. Pastor calls autism demonic

It was a common belief in earlier civilizations that illness, death, disease and all things bad come from bad entities. In the Testament of Solomon (not considered Biblical canon) there is allegedly a demon that causes sore throats that could be "cast out" (and thus the person healed) but only if you knew its true name.

5. 2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Faith-Healing Parents Refuse Medical Treatment: Officials

Some people just believe when it's your time to go, it's your time to go. A parallel would be a person who signed a Do Not Resuscitate or No Life Support paper. Unfortunately, many people are as incompetent as they are "religious" these days. The legal system serves a purpose.

6. Video shows [Sarah] Palin in anti-witchcraft prayer

If you believe in something, odds are in an indirect way it has power over you. Physical rituals of verbal reassurance are proven to help people. No harm, no foul.

7. 17 Reasons Why Evolution is a Lie

The theory of evolution, like all theories, is open to scrutiny/improvement. Why wouldn't it be?

8. The 10 Best Evidences from Science That Confirm a Young Earth

I have a theory on the matter that would make everybody right, though I keep it to myself to avoid the common folk from looking at me a bit tilt.

9. My Flat Earth: Why I Believe God's Creation (Biblical Cosmology)

Live your truth, I'm told. We have laws for a reason. No harm, no foul.

10. Does the Bible Teach That the Earth Is Flat?

See Answer 9.

11. Predicted dates of the Second Coming of Jesus through history

What? People can't theorize? Now who's exhibiting symptoms.

12. Catholic Church sexual abuse cases by country

Human nature. I can think of no legal or humane solution.

13. Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares faith, values

The two seem to be polar opposites at times, yes. Though the religion is by design for the imperfect. As all men are.

14. Why Evangelicals Went All In on Trump, Again

See Answer 13.

15. The Republican Party Is Coming for Birth Control

Nobody said democracies were just or fair.

16. Letting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the name of Christ

See Answer 5.

17. Some religious leaders oppose IVF, causing tension among churchgoers struggling with infertility

And? Listen to them or don't.

18. Witch Trials & Witchcraft

I will flat out agree people cannot handle most knowledge or even everyday life without getting carried away. Laws are in place for a reason.

19. We Must Extinguish Faith-Based Violence, Xenophobia by Tackling Hate Speech, Protecting Religious Sites, Secretary-General Tells Interfaith Summit

?

20. Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting 'Liberal' Teachings of Jesus

People call themselves whatever they please I've noticed.

21. Another look at religious objections to obstetric anaesthesia

I'm not aware of any scriptural reference, though again people like to see things that coincide with whatever they feel or please.

22. Fundamentalists are not as "intelligent"

The more you know, the greater the burden. I think the world might very well be better off if nobody discovered nuclear weaponry. Though I could just as well be mistaken.

23. A Blasphemous Invention–Religious Objections to Ben Franklin’s Lightning Rod

One person saying something hardly amounts to a "thing", really.

24. What are Christian arguments against the use of anesthesia?

This is a question, not an assertion. Again, ?

25. Christian Nationalism: A grave threat to America

See Answer 20.

26. Christian Nationalism Is ‘Single Biggest Threat’ to America’s Religious Freedom

Any minority is naturally at risk to a given majority.

27. The Radical Evangelicals Who Helped Push Jan. 6 to Wage War on “Demonic Influence”

You said it yourself: "radical". They're all kinds, theist and otherwise, many who claim the opposite of their actual persuasions.

28. Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Programs: Harmful and Ineffective

Hard to speculate without any actual reasoning given. Builds character from the sound of it.

29. Militant Christian Nationalists Remain A Potent Force, Even After The Capitol Riot

There's something I recall about "obeying government authorities" and "letting Jesus fight [one's] battles", If I'm not mistaken. Absent of any of that, there is something in the highest legally binding document in the land about "overthrowing" a government that fails to serve the people. Not defending it, just, it's there.

30. Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist.

People are often critical of their government and honesty of politicians. Nothing new.

31. When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

Fall of Troy.

32. Is Fascism Coming to America? | Opinion

No society lasts for very long without laws. People can worship and speak freely more or less. No president has ever made laws or decrees that undermine a person's personal desires in life that don't include breaking laws, to my knowledge.

33. Trump repeats baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets

If it's untrue that's unfortunate. What is true is in third world countries, dinner is whatever you can catch.

34. Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority

I suppose ideally a parent should be able to feed their child. Generosity is nice but I hardly think it should be legally mandated. Federal welfare benefits remain for those who are eligible (low income).

35. 14 GOP-led states have turned down federal money to feed low-income kids in the summer. Here’s why

See Answer 34.

36. Christianity and Xenophobia

"Love others as you love yourself". Who knows, maybe that terribly misspelled e-mail really was from a Nigerian prince wishing to share his fortune with you.

37. No, Christians Cannot Support the Democrat Party

This is getting tiresome.

38. Could My Child Have a Demon? (Part I)

While I'd agree there's more to this world than we may know, See Answer 18.

39. After 30 years, a father is exonerated in 'satanic panic' case

See Answer 18.

40. Christian Pastor Calls for Killing All Gay People

I'd start with murderers and people who don't signal before changing lanes but I'm an odd type. Definitely not a patient one is he? Not like they'll be reproducing anytime soon. Again, you can take 30 minutes and spend $15 and declare yourself whatever religion (or branch of whatever religion) you'd like. Religions and related figures are not copyrighted nor do they follow any true central authority.

41. Is 'Thank God for dead soldiers' protected speech?

? I don't like every person and opinion on Earth either, but unless you're capable of overthrowing not only the U.S. government but its allies and installing a new law of the land, your time and effort would be better spent on other matters in my opinion.

42. Homophobic pastor says LGBT+ people should be killed: ‘As much as God loves, God hates’

See Answer 40.

43. 45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’

It's nice to have opinions.

44. Pope Reaffirms 'No Salvation' Outside Catholic 'Church'

Gotta keep that flock from grazing elsewhere now, don't we?

45. Roman Catholicism Is Not Christianity

That's common talk among differing denominations and other schools of general thought and belief as well. Purists, etc.

46. IS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH THE ONE TRUE CHURCH?

See Answer 45.

47. The Pro-Slavery History of the Southern Baptists

I assumed we were discussing present symptoms not a chart of a patient's history.

48. Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence.

What is this saying? White people are inherently prone to racism (dislike or distrust of the unfamiliar whether or not they act on it or just "quietly believe so" with no actual effect) or those who identity as Christian? The difference is, you can identity as any religion you please and no one can, with any actual standing, disprove your claim.

49. Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them.

Thinking beings think. That is correct. I suppose a lobotomy would work if that's enough of a problem in your eyes.

50. Becoming Catholic #22: What Did the Ancient Church Believe? The Catholic Church is the One True Church

See Answers 44, 45.

51. About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’

Assuming this is religious based and not say, fear of a civilization-ending event such as an asteroid or cosmic flare, one has to admit if things are to be believed, this is truly a unique time, unlike the understandable idea that every society came across new inventions and interconnection and disasters due to the technological factor (nuclear warheads, the entire world being connected, both of which are very unique factors or incredible magnitute not present in any time prior).

52. Watch a US Senator Cite the Bible to Prove That Humans Aren’t Causing Global Warming

What should be fixed, the fact that there's a consumer (buyer) or the fact that there's a supplier (seller)? Pandering is nothing new.

53. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.

Everyone thinks the way they live (and most importantly, the choices they've made) are the best, otherwise they'd feel foolish. The brain does not like to be wrong. As far as measurable lack of intelligence, schools only go so far I suppose. You can lead a horse to water. The rest is up to the horse.

54. President Trump: 'I am the chosen one'

Well he's certainly lived a rather charmed and fortunate life. Without knowing his reasons one could only speculate.

55. Opinion: How a misreading of the Bible fuels many Americans’ apathy about climate change

The downside of democracy. People often don't know what's best for them.

56. Fascism in America: It’s Happening Here, According to Professor's New Book

See Answer 32.

57. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I did not detect anything false or untrue in the OP. What offended you so much? Or were you trying to make a joke?

Honestly, it strikes me like exactly the sort of thing I see on Q Anon sites, except that there the selection would simply target a different group of people.

I did not detect anything false or untrue in the OP. What offended you so much?

57. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

My question was sincere and specific. What offended you so much?

The OP is right that Jesus never really praises intellect.

I'll only add that if as a presumably thinking, presumably educated adult you have never been angered by something you heard in church, then either the drugs are working or you're not paying attention or not listening.

I can think of a few scenarios off the top of my head. Better yet just go to biblehub and search (with quotations) "wise man" or the word "fool" and I'm sure you'll have an abundance of quotes that would suggest the opposite.

To be fair, I wouldn't exactly call it a word-for-word account of every single interaction. Not a nauseatingly thorough documentary or anything.

Smug, arrogant crap. Makes me want to vote for Trump just to piss you off.

And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

When I see a diatribe like this I speculate why its author is so vehement. Why does your website on your bio page list www.adamford.com, a site Google warns against as a scam, or, when going to adamford.com, is a car dealership device?

Obviously, you have an emotional involvement in this issue. But I don't see it as a modern philosophical topic. But that's just me. Others here may differ.

My emotional involvement is because the Bible tells enormous lies about God.

It works fine for me

My emotional involvement is because the Bible tells enormous lies about God

The validity of Christianity was once a philosophical topic. Are you saying it's been excluded from modern philosophy?

When it searches for Adamford.com it goes to your site, but on and off for adamford.com - as you have listed it - it goes to car dealerships. And Google stopped me twice when I wrote www.adamford.com . Then not. Peculiar. Nice site you have though.

How can you be so certain?