Roberto Rivera

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  Jun 17, 2020

  Supreme Court rewrites 1964 Civil Rights Act

  The decisions of tomorrow, when Title IX and other federal laws are completely reimagined as if biological realities don’t exist, will be made because of Monday’s decision.

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  Jun 14, 2020

  The end is nigh ... or is it?

  Recent events have me wondering if there isn’t “a nonzero chance” that we are living in some kind of last days.

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  Jun 12, 2020

  Planned Parenthood's selling of fetal body parts exposed under oath

  The claim that any money received by the organization was only for reimbursement of expenses, which federal law allows, is actually not true.

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  Jun 8, 2020

  Coronavirus, depression and suicide

  COVID-19 is attacking a nation already emotionally and mentally fragile. Societies like ours are, by most accounts, loneliness-producing machines.

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  May 30, 2020

  The post-pandemic church: Will religious institutions be weakened?

  People in the future will think about church in terms of “BC…Before Coronavirus,” and after.

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  May 29, 2020

  What is God saying in the coronavirus pandemic?

  The virus has exposed and accelerated issues that already mattered. Both our self-centered delusions of “living for today” and our technocratic fantasies of controlling nature have proved inadequate.

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  May 28, 2020

  The UN’s quest to create a genderless world

  The secular impulse to recreate the world, and the power of language to do just that, is strong.

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  May 22, 2020

  Evolutionary psychology, natural selection, and human misbehavior

  “Evolutionary psychology is largely based on assumptions rather than evidence, and as such it is debatable whether it should be referred to as a ‘science.’"

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  May 17, 2020

  Secular missionaries spread their gospel abroad

  Teaching Afghan girls how to skateboard and providing “creative, arts-based education,” is, in the end, shorthand for making them more “Western” in their views about women, and thus, less “backward.”

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  May 6, 2020

  Abstaining from everything during the pandemic, except sex

  When our kids return to school, they’ll again be encouraged to engage in risky sexual behavior and the risks associated with this public health crisis will be downplayed.