Public Secular Organizations and Persons Only
Some may object to limiting this offer to secular organizations. However, the problems being addressed by the Tools of Timism are secular in nature. Furthermore, consistently the non-secular organizations claim a super-natural "power of prayer." They should figure out how to use so as to solve the problems of prayer. As is, past and present, the believers in the power of prayer have consistently fought and killed each other over "whose god should be the object of prayer."
The elephant in the room is climate change from human CO2 sinning which would be more appropriately deemed global dying. As the biomass and foodchain collapses, one will see in more nations the rising tide of religious civil wars as factions try to monopolize the dwindling foodstocks. This is what is driving the conflicts in Africa, the Mideast, Central Asias, Southeast Asia, etc. Too many religious leaders blame the non-believers for incurring their god's wrath upon them in the form of droughts and floods.
The secular earthly problems of Mother Nature will not be solved by persons holding alien allegiance to some imaginary place.
Secular includes traditional public schools that are tax-funded. They do not include religious or private schools, colleges or universities. Students, staff or parents associated with private non-secular schools can signup via the TV-Ad lending option.
Students and teachers attending private schools, e.g., religious, can sign up for access to the Tools of Timism as individuals.
| Most early immigrants to America sought to escape religion dominating
politics in Europe. This especially included the wars waged by the monarchies
with the peasants paying in taxes and blood: the religious wars, "a
series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th
centuries."(Wikipedia)
The Framing Fathers rejected taxes supporting religious institutions (1787 Northwest Ordinance). They designated Tuesday for voting, not Sunday nor Monday, because of wanting to keep religion out of politics. The proposed religious tax by conservatives became an education tax that funded the one-room schools (190,000 by 1919). The historical religious wars of Europe have come and gone repeatedly in politics, perhaps no time worse than today (2023) around the world. |
| A common criticism of religion is that it is full of hypocrites. One
sees this in the money ministries preaching how the rich man cannot enter
heavens ... and in the widespread pedophillia and adultery of the religious
leaders. A survey some years ago stated that 50% of females age 15 to 25
in Tehran, Iran, were economic prostitutes due to poverty with 90% of the
customers being mullahs preaching the Sharia doctrine of family and female
sanctity.
The old joke that the chuch is not full of hypocrites because there is room for more is no joke when it comes the US Supreme Court which shows how religion should be kept out of public affairs. The last three justices (??) were all hypocrites lying in their confrimation hearings about "established precedence." What does Mother Nature--the true, final arbiter superior to the laws of mankind--think of the Dobbs ruling that struck down legal abortions?
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