I wrote, 14 months ago, about how the Atheist Patheos site had gotten a lot of shit wrong in its first month. I debated about going back there again, with subscription screens and donation screens and such, and didn't for a long time. But, recently, I did. And, boy, I don't need to do that again for a while.

First, a lot of it isn't even secularist or secular humanist or Atheist on ethics or other things. It's generic US librul, with a dash from across the pond.

Second, within that, in its repeated writings on the Russia-Ukraine War, it's very very much US/NATO Nat-sec Nutsack librul. And with that, let's dive in.

OnlySky Media was founded by the atheist contingent formerly at Patheos after Patheos essentially said, they say, that they had to be nice to theists.

So, they formed their own sandbox. And, to be honest, there's a fair amount not to like.

First, when I decided, hey, since I missed out on Patheos atheists' rise to fame, and a few bucks, and then got blocked from commenting by not-a-bible-scholar Gnu Atheist Neil Carter (one of the OnlySky gang), let's see if I can't hook up there, especially since they say they're open for contributors. (More on individual contributors getting shite wrong below.)

In their request for submissions, they say:

New columnists are added continually based not only on quality but on whether the proposed column fills an unmet need. We already have religious criticism pretty well covered.

Uhh, no, as I note below, in follow-up to what I noted originally, as well as things outside religion.

First, inside religion?

Jonathan M.S. Pierce, as already documented here in giving a guest poster space trying to defend Bart Ehrman's most recent book, or directly here, as linked there, cutting blank checks to Jesus mythicists, has gotten issues of biblical criticism wrong. And, I mean, easily identifiable as wrong. I identify him as being a semi-Gnu, like Croft. Within religion, his piece claiming circumcision is a mark of slavery is full of holes on issues such as his ignoring acts of religion as cost-paying signaling. Add in that Hector Avalos, whom he cites, is a Jesus mythicist fellow-traveler. (Being a self-proclaimed agnostic on both the historic Jesus as well as mythicism makes you a mythicist fellow traveler. More As is Pierce himself IMO.)

Then there's Paul Golin, not previously critiqued, talking about why an atheist Jew celebrates Hanukkah. First, as far as being historical? The events afterward didn't play out exactly as presented in 1 Maccabees. I've blogged about that before. I blogged about that more at my main blog. He also ignores, contra Shlomo Sand and many others, as I have also discussed, that Hanukkah is originally pagan. Since the menorah ran dry, since Hanukkah has pagan roots and since, per Yonathan Adler, the Torah in general wasn't widely observed until AFTER the Maccabean revolt, if Golin is intellectually honest in act as well as thought, he's just doing a Jewish-tinged solstice event.

As for having other things covered? Phil Zuckerman supposedly writes the Secular Symphony, but his vertical had nothing about classical music one year ago. Today? His 10 most recent posts have ONE about music and it's not about classical music.

Then, back to Pierce, re the Russia-Ukraine war? In writing about things like "Putin's Russian sacrifice at the Chinese altar," too cute by half, he's himself decided to sacrifice at the US-NATO altar of abomination of desolation. 

And, do I really need a secular humanist, let alone a librul as compared to a leftist, a traditional conservative or a libertarian, to tell me that AI isn't all it cracks itself up to be?