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Red Station

Anthony McIntyre🔖 Since the onset of Covid I have started an affair with podcasts. The promiscuity of my curiosity means it is not just one podcast but a diverse range of them: science, history, secularism, current affairs, politics, philosophy, religion inter alia.Having acquired a taste for them, engaging with a podcast is just like reading a book while walking. The information is absorbed via

Desperate Derek

Friendly Atheist ✒ End Times Preacher Sharon Gilbert: A Reptile Alien Imitating My Husband Tried to Sleep with Me.  

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TD Says ‘Urgent Need’ For All Children To Be ‘Informed By Science, Not Religion’

Irish Times ✒ Teaching of sex education has been considered by three ministers, but still an issue.Marie O'HalloranThere is an urgent need for adequate sex education for young people that is “informed by science, not religion”, the Dáil has heard.Social Democrats education spokesman Gary Gannon said the issue has “already spanned” three successive education ministers but has not yet been properly

NSS Backs Proposals For Assisted Dying Law In Scotland

National Secular Society ✒ has backed proposals to allow the choice of assisted dying in Scotland.The NSS has responded to a consultation launched by a member of the Scottish Parliament on proposals for a bill to "enable competent adults who are terminally ill to be provided at their request with assistance to end their life".Under the proposals in the consultation by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam

Bible Bashing Baptist Berates Kissing

Right Wing Watch  ✒ Mark Robinson Says Straight Relationships Are ‘Superior’ Because Homosexuality Serves No Purpose.Kyle MantylaNorth Carolina’s radically Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson spoke at Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, earlier this month, where he once again went on an anti-LGBTQ rant while preaching, openly declaring that straight

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Dementia Diaries @ Ⅵ

Lesley Stock ✒ The Fallout.DadAfter dad had taken himself off on the Wednesday night and scared me half to death, I left their house wondering how I was ever going to get through to mum. Whatever I said, wasn’t making any kind of an impact on her!Plan B – talk to her friends. So, the next day, I rang my aunts and explained the situation. Both had the same opinion as myself, that mum couldn’t

Confessions Of A Uniformed Ulster Bigot @ Ⅰ

Brandon Sullivan & Winnie Woods team up to deconstruct the testimony of a former RUC member.Part One – Thrilling Willie McCrea; Gary Armstrong’s dysfunctional start in life, raw sectarianism, and beginnings in the RUC I read this mercifully short book written by one of the RUC officers convicted in relation to crimes committed by those associated with what became known as the “Glenanne gang.” I

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