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Gregory Paul is an independent researcher interested in informing the public about little known yet important aspects of the complex interactions between religion, secularism, culture, economics, politics and societal conditions. His scholarly work has appeared in Evolutionary Psychology, Journal of Religion and Society, The Journal of Medical Ethics, Philosophy and Theology. Popular essays are at Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post/On Faith, Edge and one of the most widely read Washington Post op-eds (5/29&30/11). Coverage of Paul's research has appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Guardian, London Times, LA Times, MSNBC, FoxNews.
Saturday, March 17, 2012 Bigotry is Bigotry is Bigotry (1 comments)
It is not just the religious right that is causing trouble for gays, some religious moderates are too.
Saturday, February 25, 2012 The Catholic War on Women (20 comments)
One way the Catholic Church is trying to impose its reproductive doctrines on women at large is by running a bigger slice of the medical system.
Friday, February 17, 2012 The Great Contraceptive Slip Up
Liberal, conservative, theist, atheist, just about everyone has mishandled the contraceptive controversy.
Monday, September 5, 2011 Can We Please Stop Pretending that Christianity is Anti-Socialism? Please? Pt 2 (8 comments)
In part I described how theoconservatism is riven with astoundingly hypocritical inconsistenices just waiting to be exploited by progessives and covered by the mainstream press, here I discuss how to expose The Great Theoconservative Contradiction.
Friday, September 2, 2011 Can We Please Stop Pretending that Christianity is Anti-Socialism? Please? Pt 1 (3 comments)
It is about time that progressives and the press really laid it on the relgious right how they are wrong when they deny that the Bible is socialist friendly, and how theocons are a bunch of social Darwinists who adore the ungodly libertarian economics of Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 The Death of Human Space Flight (1 comments)
The end of the shuttle program without an immediate follow up American system for putting people into space probably heralds the ultimate decline of space travel for fundamental practical reasons.
Friday, October 1, 2010 Those Damn Republican Landmines
The modern Republican tactic of damaging the government to better their chances of running the country trips up the Democrats, but poses long term dangers for the right.
Saturday, July 3, 2010 The Understold Story: The Vatican, the Mob, Super Ponzi Schemes and MORE (5 comments)
The Dan Brown novels do not come close to describing what the Vatican has been up. It's much worse, far more interesting, and it is time the press, media, politicians and public learned about the Roman Church and put a stop to it.
Friday, June 11, 2010 At Long Last the Catholic Church Must Be Destroyed (6 comments)
By excommunicating a nun who aided a desperately ill woman in obtaining a life saving abortion, the anti-female Roman Church that helped put Hitler in power and invented anti-Semitism has shed the moral legitimacy necessary for its existence. Reform is not sufficient because it is not practical to sufficiently transform the dictatorial Vatican.
Saturday, May 15, 2010 Pope Claims Jesus Had the Brain of a Caveman! (4 comments)
Apparently Pope Benedict does not realize he is claiming that Jesus had an undersized brain when he endorses the Shroud of Turin as Christ's burial cloth.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Why Making Pope Pious XII a Saint is a Very Bad Idea
The effort by the Vatican to make Pious XII into a saint is beyond the pale because his church made Hitler dictator of Germany, and Pious played a leading role in the effort.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 The Modern Conservative Sleaze Factor
Those theocons just can't help themselves. They will perpetually damage their own cause because they like the anti-traditional pop culture a lot more than they admit.
Friday, January 22, 2010 Anti-Choice Madness, and Why God is Not Pro-Life (1 comments)
Doctor killer Scott Roeder will be able to cite the pro-life will of God in his defense. Not only is this legal insanity, neither the Bible nor the real world indicates God is against abortion.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Conservative Christian Whiners (3 comments)
Yet again conservative Christians strategically complain they are the majority victims of discrimination against the faithful, when it is the nontheist minority that is actually victimized by faith-based bigotry.
Sunday, December 6, 2009 Bringing Creationism to Heel Requires Making America Less Socially Darwinistic (3 comments)
American creationism cannot be tamed by better science education alone. It will require reforming America to make it a less socioeconiomically Darwinistic country more like the progressive, proevolution democracies of the 1st world.
Saturday, September 20, 2008 John McCain, Fighter Pilot (4 comments)
Why is John McCain taking such big risks in his final effort to reach the White House? That he spent his formative years as a military pilot has a lot to do with it.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Todd Palin: Future Co-President? (3 comments)
Little looked at so far is the role "First Dude" Todd Palin will play if he and his wife make their way to the White House. Could be pretty scary considering the male head of the household doctrine Palin's church preaches.
Saturday, September 13, 2008 The Liar From Nowhere (2 comments)
Sarah Palin, in collaboration with her running mate John McCain, is affirming that the GOP is not the Party of Virtue, and that the right will happily lie its way to the White House. It's the only hope they have.
Sunday, September 7, 2008 Of Course It Matters
The pregnancy of the Palin daughter exposes the pratical failings and political cynicism of the traditionalist world view of human sexual activities
Sunday, August 31, 2008 The Real McCain
McCain's veep pick exposes how empty his claim to be a man of principled judgment actually is.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The Gays Are Winning: Why That Spells Doom for the Religious Right (8 comments)
Despite setbacks gays and lesbians are winning the culture war as American's tolerance for homosexuality soars to levels never imagined in the last century. This social change bodes ill for traditional religion, which cannot thrive in a gay friendly nation.
Saturday, March 1, 2008 Why is Secular European Society Doing So Much Better Than God-Fearing America?: The Big Picture, Part 2
Clearly something is very wrong in America compared to the more secular western countries when it comes to the health of the society. At the same time religious belief and worship is imploding in the western democracies, including the USA. Can the social and economic factors behind these historically unprecedented trends be explained by sociological science? The answer is yes.
Thursday, February 14, 2008 Why is Secular European Society Doing So Much Better Than God-Fearing America? Raising the Kids (9 comments)
If raising kids American style in the context of the devout nuclear family with the Bible as the moral guidebook and the rod to keep the tykes in lines, then why are European children brought up by unmarried, secular parents banned by law from whacking their charges enjoying lower levels of dysfunction?
Friday, February 8, 2008 Why is Secular European Society Doing So Much Better Than God-Fearing America? A Look at Marriage and Divorce. (8 comments)
If marriage born-again evangelical style is God's plan for all humans, and if secular marriages are relationship disasters waiting to happen, then why is divorce rampant among conservative Protestants, and why does Christian America suffer from one of the highest marriage failure rates in the 1st world?
Friday, February 1, 2008 Why is Secular European Society Doing so Much Better Than God-Fearing America? (2 comments)
If staying celibate until marriage is an important component of a healthy society, then why are sexually open-minded Euro teens catching fewer STDs, getting abortions less often, and having fewer kids out of wedlock than their more religious American counterparts?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 The Real War on Xmas
The religious and social right want us to think that it is liberal secularists who are waging war on the holy day. As the release of this year's disappointing retail sales figures help reveal, the real enemies of Christmas piety are the allies of the right, the merchant capitalists, as well as their loyal helpers, the American consumer.
