Big rift forming right now in the race science community between the conventional race science guys and the Silicon Valley style race science guys. The right always eats itself
Megachurches are fascinating to me because they just reveal the vulgarity at the heart of religion. A lot of you want to imagine spirituality as august and austere, but this is all that spirituality is to the kind of people who actually go to church. This is all that God is
We really don't talk enough about how, for so many Americans, "church" is just a weekly rock concert/laser light show interspersed with speeches from Adolf Hitler at the world's ugliest ultramall
sam altman: we are a few 1000 days away from building god. we will build suns on earth, unify physics and resurrect the worthy dead
garry tan: sounds like this will be really impactful for startups
sam altman: definitely. no better time to be a startup
dear Catholic Church, your new mascot being called Luce does not help us convince the conspiracy theorists they're wrong
also, you may consider talking about children less
The Vatican has unveiled the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025: Luce (Italian for Light).
Archbishop Fisichella says the mascot was inspired by the Church's desire "to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth."
the Guardian article, nor @AdamRutherford afaict, mention Lasker/cremieux at all, but he's HUGELY popular in the silicon valley twitter sphere and the broader "rationalist"/tpot/etc stuff
hat tip to @RationalWiki for highlighting those connections https://t.co/gHy74sje2n
So the idea of making schools "Christian" is really about keeping them White and free from the boogeyman of communism. Georgia Congressman put it most succinctly:"They put the Negroes in the school; now they put God out of the schools."
But that's not the whole story. You see, the Warren Court that made these rulings ALSO gave us Brown (1954) & Loving (1967). Christians--esp in the South--saw these rulings as interconnected. In short, "God" was removed from the school the moment schools were being desegregated.
I went to a private fundamentalist Christian school from 3-8th grade. Most of our textbooks were from Bob Jones University and Abeka (Pensacola). We were not taught evolution. We were taught all the Founding Fathers were evangelical Christians. & that the KKK were the good guys: