@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-04-21 17:08:34
Diverse organic molecules on #Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 -> NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-organic-molecules-never-seen-before-on-mars/
@thoralf@soc.umrath.net2026-03-22 19:48:43
‚Einen Satz müssten sich vor allem Männer abgewöhnen: "Das kann ich mir nicht vorstellen."‘
Der Satz trifft es auf den Punkt!
https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/film/2026-03/christian-ulmen-vorwuerfe-gewalt-r…
@poppastring@dotnet.social2026-02-21 19:35:26
A post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings
@mapto@qoto.org2026-03-23 04:09:13
“Vertical morality teaches that authority, power and a moral code of right and wrong, or acceptable and unacceptable, come from ‘above’ ― an external superior who designates rules, systems and tenets that must be obeyed by those beneath,” said Tia Levings, a former Christian fundamentalist and author of “A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy.”
In the context of religion, the superior is God. In politics, it might be an authoritarian dictator. In a cult, it would be t…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-21 23:15:46
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
The woman, who The Associated Pres…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-23 08:15:09
This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-03-23 14:08:29
Trump erects statue to Colon, the coloniser, enslaver and murderer who discovered neither America nor 'America'.
Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-22 12:10:29
Christian Parker's Blueprint: A Bigger, More Physical 26' Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/christian-parkers-blueprint-a-bigger-more-physical-26-cowboys-defense
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-23 01:13:56
A 29-year-old Llano California man is in custody,
charged with killing #Carl #Grillmair, a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives say 67-year-old Carl Grillmair was found shot to death on the porch of his home in rural…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-23 15:59:33
Mailbag: First impressions of Christian Parker? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-first-impressions-of-christian-parker