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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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 21, 2011 The Death of Human Space Flight
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.
SHARE 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.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 3, 2010 The Understold Story: The Vatican, the Mob, Super Ponzi Schemes and MORE
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.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, June 11, 2010 At Long Last the Catholic Church Must Be Destroyed
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 15, 2010 Pope Claims Jesus Had the Brain of a Caveman!
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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 22, 2010 Anti-Choice Madness, and Why God is Not Pro-Life
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Conservative Christian Whiners
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 6, 2009 Bringing Creationism to Heel Requires Making America Less Socially Darwinistic
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 John McCain, Fighter Pilot
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.