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Succession actor bashes the Bible
"Succession" actor Brian Cox gave a harsh assessment of religion and its impact on the world in a new wide-ranging interview out this week. In a new episode of The Starting Line podcast, the Scottish actor, who is a self-professed atheist and socialist, argued that religion has sold humans a false story about reality and contributed to their own "stupidity." "Human beings are so f—d, basically… because they're so stupid," he said. Religion has "led us into
Using burnt seeds from 1st Temple era, researchers tame a vexing dating enigma
A team of scholars recently used a new method to conquer the Hallstatt plateau, an abiding Iron Age puzzle, and help reveal the timeline of ancient Jerusalem. Here’s how they did it Archaeological insights are usually gleaned from small items revealed through painstaking excavations, research and analysis, each a small piece of a greater puzzle. This approach was taken to the extreme in a recently published article making waves in the archaeology world in which
Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools
Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide elected leaders to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas counties. Other proposed planks of the 50-page platform included proclamations that “abortion is not healthcare it is homicide”; that gender-transition treatment for children is “child abuse”; calls to reverse recent name changes
Mother who beat her three-year-old son ‘because the Bible told her to’ before shaking him to death is jailed
A wicked mother who claimed the Bible told her to beat her toddler with a cane before she murdered him will serve at least 25 years behind bars. In the weeks before his violent death, three-year-old Dwelaniyah Robinson suffered excruciating burns from being forced into scalding water and was subjected to a series of cruel acts by his mother Christina Robinson. This included being lashed with a cane for 'messing with his food'. Newcastle Crown
