multiplicity...

I have a headache… That will teach me for drinking too much? Not really. We had a good time, it was a great party and I will go on the wagon for a few days. Being older, I don’t recover as fast but I’m not addicted to consciousness modifying substances… I just indulge their existence...

I could feel despair nonetheless with my throbbing brains… But not really. I’m hopefully a learned optimist, even if some others people are loony… It will be a slow day… No noises please… But I still can think a little bit:  for example, the intents of some good persons go astray… Take this email for example forwarded by an atheist mate who subscribes. The message comes from the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):

Colleagues, 

We know that science is the key to solving the global challenges we face today, like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. But with more and more Americans turning to social media for their news, the spread of harmful misinformation has led some to be skeptical of the scientific community and its motivations. 

Since our founding, countering misinformation has been one of the central tenets of our work at AAAS. Every day, we are striving to empower scientists and science advocates to build relationships and communicate effectively in the communities where they live, work, and worship. 

The bold is in the message. The last word offends me, my friend and should offend ALL SCIENTISTS. Worshipping is the antithesis of sciences. May be I misunderstood the allocation of this word. Is it attached to the communities? But no. The text is definitely about “worshipping scientists”. Exposing this contradictory stupidity has been the message from this website for a long time: Religions (worship) and sciences do not mix. They are philosophically alien, not even opposite. But we are in deep delusional political ether...

Say, welcome to Believing America… You cannot be elected President if you don't "believe" in godots... Only one single dude in Congress would admit to being an atheist (or a non-believer in god[s]). The other members of congress all have some graded beliefs in god and the few who are “non-religiously" attached are either gay, bisexual or named Bernie Sanders. That’s it, folks… Yet:

CNN) Nobody would mistake Bernie Sanders' stump speech for a sermon. When making moral arguments about income inequality or climate change, he's more likely to quote statistics than Scripture.

Though raised Jewish, Sanders says that he is "not particularly religious," nor is he a member of any congregation or synagogue. "I am not actively involved in organized religion," he has told reporters.

But at a CNN town hall in New Hampshire in February, Sanders seemed to contradict himself.

"It's a guiding principle in my life, absolutely," said the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate.

"You know, everyone practices religion in a different way. To me, I would not be here tonight, I would not be running for president of the United States if I did not have very strong religious and spiritual feelings.”

So what gives? Is Bernie Sanders religious or not?

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/14/politics/bernie-sanders-religion/index.html

Gus thinks that Bernie HAD to acknowlege something about god, otherwise his chances to be President would plummet from zero to minus sixty-seven...

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Apart from the eleven members listed below who could be suspected of being ambivalent about god, the other members (Congress of 2013)— in a total of 535 Members of Congress with 100 serving in the U.S. Senate and 435 serving in the US House of Representatives — are “God Bless America” with their hand on the heart, like a Hitlerian salute. Oh. I forgot to mention the physicist… and of course all the “non-affiliated/unspecified” members belong to the Democratic Party. So one can consider that in the USA, 76.5% of the population believe in a superior being(s) and that ALL the representatives of the Republican Party believe in god. The figures below are for the US population:

Unaffiliated (believers "nones”) 22.8%

Atheist 3.1%

Agnostic 4.0%

Nothing in particular 15.8%

Don't know  0.6%

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THE RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION OF EACH MEMBER OF CONGRESS The tables below list the religious affiliation of each of the 533 members sworn into the 113th Congress on Jan. 3, 2013. They exclude two vacated seats – the Illinois House seat previously held by Jesse Jackson Jr. (Baptist) and the South Carolina House seat previously held by Tim Scott (Christian). The data was compiled by CQ Roll Call and the Pew Forum

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/11/113-congress-relig-affil.pdf

We have extracted the members of CONGRESS (113rd) with unspecified religious status:

Kyrsten Lea Sinema has been reported to be the only non-theist member of Congress,[195][196] although she herself has rejected such labels.[65]

In 2002, The Arizona Republic published a letter from Sinema criticizing capitalism. "Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule", she wrote.[30]

….

Sinema is the first openly bisexual person and second openly LGBT woman (after Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin) elected to the United States Congress.[71]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrsten_Sinema

Judy May Chu is one of two Unitarian Universalists in Congress [50] but has been listed as “unspecified”. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Chu#Personal_life

Jared Huffman could be the only person admitting to be a non-believer, in god: in an interview with The Washington Post's Michelle Boorstein published November 9, 2017, Jared Huffman stated "I suppose you could say I don't believe in God."[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Huffman#Personal_life

Ladda Tammy Duckworth is also listed as “unspecified” and her biography does not say about her stand about god...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth#Personal_life

George William Foster (born October 7, 1955) also listed as “unspecified”, is an American businessman, physicist, and U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district, winning the seat in 2012.[1] He was previously the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1983.[2] The title of his doctoral dissertation is "An experimental limit on proton decay: ."[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foster_(politician)

John F. Tierney is also mentioned as “unspecified”...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Tierney

Earl Francis Blumenauer[1] is mentioned as “unspecified”...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Blumenauer

Suzanne Bonamici is mentioned as “unspecified”… though she was raised Episcopalian and Unitarian, and now attends synagogue with her husband, who is Jewish, and their children.[27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Bonamici

Mark William Pocan, “openly gay” is mentioned as “unspecified”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pocan

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Michael Farrand Bennet, mentioned as “unspecified”, acknowledges his Jewish roots.[108][109][110] He has said that he was "raised with two different heritages, one [that] was Jewish and one [that] was Christian," and that he believes in God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bennet

Tammy Baldwin was baptised Episcopalian but considers herself "unaffiliated" with a religion.[139][140]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Baldwin

And that’s about it... about one non-believer in the congress, a few non committal. All of the others are believers... and I mean BELIEVERS!

What is worrying as well is that some members of Congress are Christian Scientists (mostly in the Republican Party). They are not scientists but spiritualists (teaching Christianity as a “science”)…  

Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.[n 2] It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who argued in her 1875 book Science and Health that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone.[n 3] The book became Christian Science's central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.[5]

Eddy and 26 followers were granted a charter in 1879 to found the Church of Christ, Scientist, and in 1894 the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was built in Boston, Massachusetts.[6] Christian Science became the fastest growing religion in the United States, with nearly 270,000 members there by 1936, a figure that had declined by 1990 to just over 100,000,[7] and by 2009 reportedly to under 50,000.[3] The church is known for its newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which won seven Pulitzer Prizes between 1950 and 2002, and for its public Reading Rooms around the world.[n 4]

Christian Science is not to be confused with Scientology or List of Christian thinkers in science.

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So where to with this horrible hell-bent US CONGRESS believing lot, mostly anti-Russia and anti-China? 

Ignoring the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Indus or the Devil-druids, Christian religion alone in the US is divided into many little fiefdoms of beliefs and interpretation of the bible, all with their own deluded preacher for salvation. This is an amazingly long list of “Christian churches” looking for god in their own way:

Adventist

Advent Christian Church

Church of God General Conference

Seventh-Day Adventist

Amana Church Society

American Ethical Union

American Evangelical Christian Churches

American Rescue Workers

Apostolic Christian Church of America

Apostolic Faith Mission of Portland, Oregon

Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God

Armenian Church

Baptist

American Baptist Association

American Baptist Churches U.S.A.

Baptist Bible Fellowship, International

Baptist General Conference

Baptist Missionary Association of America

Bethel Ministerial Association

Central Baptist Association

Conservative Baptist Association of America

Duck River (& Kindred) Assns of Baptists (Baptist Church of Christ)

Free Will Baptist

General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

General Baptist

General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc.

Landmark Baptist

National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A.

North American Baptist Conference

Primitive Baptist

Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

Reformed Baptist

Separate Baptists in Christ (General Association of Separate Baptists)

Seventh Day Baptist General Conference

Southern Baptist Convention

United Baptist

United Free Will Baptist

Berean Fundamental Church

Bible Fellowship Church

Bible Protestant Church

Bible Way Church, Worldwide

Brethren

Brethren Church (Ashland)

Brethren in Christ Church

Church of the Brethren

Church of the United Brethren in Christ

Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Old German Baptist Brethren

United Zion Church

Catholic

Byzantine Catholic Church in America

Liberal Catholic Church, The

Mariavite Old Catholic Church

North American Old Roman Catholic Church

Old Roman Catholic Church (English Rite)

Polish National Catholic Church of America

Roman Catholic Church

Christadelphian

Christian and Missionary Alliance

Christian Catholic Church

Christian Church, The (The Stone-Campbell Movement)

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ

Christian Church of North America, General Council

Christian Congregation, Inc.

Christian Union

Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

Church of Christ, Scientist

Church of God

Church of God, The (Huntsville, Alabama)

Church of God, Inc.,The (Original)

Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)

Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)

Church of God (Seventh Day)

Church of God and Saints of Christ

Church of God by Faith, Inc.

Church of God in Christ

Church of God in Christ (International)

Church of God of Prophecy

Church of God, Holiness

Church of Jesus Christ

Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of` the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

Churches of Christ in Christian Union

Churches of God, General Conference

Churches of Illumination

Churches of the Living God

Community Churches, International Council of

Congregational Bible Churches, Inc.

Congregational Christian Churches (National Association)

Congregational Holiness Church

Conservative Congregational Christian Conference

Divine Science

Episcopal/Anglican

African Orthodox Church, The

Anglican Orthodox Church

Episcopal Church, The

Reformed Episcopal Church

Other Anglican Bodies in the United States

Evangelical Church, The

Evangelical Congregational Church

Evangelical Covenant Church, The

Evangelical Free Church of America

Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the

Friends (Quaker)

Friends General Conference

Friends United Meeting (Five Years Meeting)

Religious Society of Friends (Conservative)

Grace Gospel Fellowship

Independent Fundamental Churches of America

Jehovah's Witnesses

Lutheran

American Lutheran Church, The

Apostolic Lutheran Church of America

Church of the Lutheran Brethren

Church of the Lutheran Confession

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Free Lutheran Congregations, The Association of

Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, The

Lutheran Church in America

Protestant Conference (Lutheran)

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Mennonite

Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches

Church of God in Christ, Mennonite

Conservative Mennonite Conference

Evangelical Mennonite Church

Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches

General Conference Mennonite Church

Hutterian Brethren

Mennonite Brethren Churches, General Conference

Mennonite Church

Old Order Amish Church

Old Order (Wisler) Mennonite Church

Reformed Mennonite Church

Unaffiliated Mennonite

Methodist

African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Congregational Methodist Church

Evangelical Methodist Church

Free Methodist Church of North America

Primitive Methodist Church, U.S.A.

Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church

Southern Methodist Church

Union American Methodist Episcopal Church

United Methodist Church, The

Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of

Missionary Church

Moravian

Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum)

Unity of the Brethren

Mormon

Church of Christ (Temple Lot)

Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, The

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Strangite)

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Nazarene

Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene)

Church of the Nazarene

New Apostolic Church of North America

Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.

Orthodox (Eastern)

Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America

American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America

Orthodox Church of America

Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America

Russian Orthodox Church

Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.

Pentecostal

Assemblies of God, General Council of .

Elim Fellowship

Independent Assemblies of God, International

International Pentecostal Church of Christ

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc.

Pentecostal Church of God

Pentecostal Free-Will Baptist Church, Inc.

Pentecostal Holiness Church, International

United Pentecostal Church, International

Pillar of Fire

Plymouth Brethren

Presbyterian

Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church .

Bible Presbyterian Church

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian Church in America, The

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America .

Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the United States

Reformed

Christian Reformed Church in North America

Hungarian Reformed Church in America

Netherlands Reformed Congregations

Protestant Reformed Churches in America

Reformed Church in America.

Reformed Church in the United States

Salvation Army

Schwenkfelder Church

Social Brethren

Spiritualist

National Spiritual Alliance of the U.S.A.

National Spiritualist Association of Churches

Swedenborgian Church, General Convention of

Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ (International)

Unitarian Universalist Association

United Church of Christ

United Holy Church of America, Inc.

Unity School of Christianity

Volunteers of America, Inc.

Wesleyan Church, The

Worldwide Church of God

http://www.mesacc.edu/~thoqh49081/handouts/denominations.html

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Yes, we know that MANY religions try hard to incorporate some sciences into their beliefs, in order to corner the market. This should be viewed as deranged and hypocritical. 

Worship has been the main spreader of fake information way BEFORE social media was ever invented. While ALL WORSHIPPING is anti the intent of sciences, NOT ALL  social media is anti-sciences. As Bertolt Brecht told us “the aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.” Do we get this message?

The philosophy of sciences is uncomfortably relative by design, but seeking absolute via worship is insane. Wishing for eternal life, vying for redemption and salvation is stupid and ignorant of reality. This is a little planet in evolution transform amongst a billion planets in a similar situation in which assemblages of elements, those that start producing amino-acids, lead (or do not) to the development of life, a purposeless system of chemicalities that has so far given us, individuals of a species amongst species, a tragic awareness of ultimate self-demise and a fantastic ability to appreciate our moment in the sun. Nothing more. No god. 

But we are made to be afraid… We would be afraid that our existence may be futile in uncertainty, thus many moons ago, some clever doodads have reduced most of us to a servile submission to various superior beings, from Zeus, god, allah, yahweh, Venus and Xena in order to eliminate the confusion of who we are, and at the same time control our desires. 

Preachers are the worst kind of fake news spreaders and purveyor of silly yet powerful misinformation. And of course, their way is the only way...

Take for example this young “megachurch” pastor (we’ve been following his delusions for a long time now, since he was a preacher at age 11) who is like the new representative salesman of Jesus. Ignorance can have a lot of information, be senseless and circular, from the acceptance of a false premise. So his take is “against the Christian Culture” which he sees as a habit rather than a real devotion — while creating his own delusions by writing his own relationship about Jesus which he wants to share with you for a few bobs… It would be silly, if it was not tragically accepted by ignoramuses en megamasses… It is a profitable non-profit business: he wants to implant 3,400 “Megachurches” worldwide to laud the Lord Jesus. No wonder he can afford clean shirts and expensive shoes... Jesus dressed in raggy robes and sandals, we have been told about his humble poverty...

Yet the “freedom of religion” (believing in crap) is sacrosanct while the freedom to express a stupid idea on twitter is a no-no… for fear of bad info-contagion. Whichever is worse?

The songs of the Eurovision contest 2021?… Great to see Sweden represented by a full black band and Russia looking like a pale version of Israel two years ago. For a few years, Eurovision has gone global with Australia in 2021 represented by Montaigne (eliminated in the semis)… The exuberance of the music is depressingly void of substance, like the cardboard cake for the wedding of Corporal Jones…

Australia’s entry, 25-year-old musician Montaigne, was knocked out from the competition during the first semi-final at the weekend.

The coronavirus scare comes amid a protest by several dozen Orthodox Christian faithful and clergy members over Cyprus’ entry in Eurovision, which they contend promotes Satan worship.

The protest, held opposite the gates of the offices of state broadcaster RIK, was the second against the song El Diablo staged by Christians who argue the number has no place as the national song of Cyprus in the contest because of what they say is its brazen invitation to embrace the devil.

Both RIK and singer Elena Tsagrinou say critics have misinterpreted the lyrics of El Diablo, and that it’s actually about an abusive relationship between two lovers.

The song passed its first competition hurdle during a Tuesday semifinal and made it into the contest’s final round.

The people protesting saw that as no cause for celebration, insisting that El Diablo was an affront to Cypriots’ Orthodox faith.

“This song doesn’t represent Cyprus. It doesn’t honour it. It insults Cyprus, it desecrates Cyprus and is dangerous, my good Orthodox Christians,” an unnamed clergyman said into a microphone while addressing the demonstrators.

“It’s dangerous to our children, to our families. There is no chance that the devil can do any good to anyone.”

But I am an optimist…

GL.

Your local analyst of crap (mine and yours).

Full blown atheist.

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