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Clergy Project

The Clergy Project is an online community that exists to provide a safe haven for members of the clergy who do not believe in the supernatural (let alone the divine).
==Origins and goals==
It was formed largely in response to a research project undertaken by Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola into preachers who are not believers.Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola, Preachers who are not Believers. Tufts University, 15 March 2010. Archived from The Washington Post. The initial study interviewed five practicing clergy of various Christian denominations who were closet atheists. The project went online in March 2011. According to the homepage, the community is a forum for dialogue on various topics in a confidential and anonymous environment, such as:
*Wrestling with intellectual, ethical, philosophical, and theological issues
*Coping with cognitive dissonance
*Addressing feelings of being stuck and fearing the future
*Looking for new careers
*Telling their families
*Sharing useful resources
*Living as a nonbeliever with religious spouses and family
*Using humor to soften the pain
*Finding a way out of the ministry
*Adjusting to life after the ministry
==The community==
The community has a policy of complete confidentiality and is sensitive to non-believing clergy who desire to remain anonymous. Former pastors, ministers, priests, Rabbis, Imams, nuns, monks, or theologians are all welcome to join the community of their peers. There is a careful screening process to ensure the privacy of members. This includes verifying information about one's academic and professional religious experiences. As of 2021, there are some 1000 members of the Clergy Project. Non-clergy and clergy with motives contra to the mission of the project are excluded from participation.
==Coming out==
As of December 2012, several members of the Project have "come out" as atheists and given speeches disavowing their former beliefs, including Mike Aus, Theresa MacBain,NPR From Minister To Atheist: A Story Of Losing Faith. and Jerry Dewitt.New York Times; From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader Jerry DeWitt has written:
DeWitt now lectures on giving a "secular message based on humanist values" at venues in the United States.
At least one Christian criticizes those who have not come out for citing loss of salary as a main concern.Atheists in the Pulpit — The Sad Charade of the Clergy Project However, if atheist clergy resign without finding alternative employment and end up on welfare together with their families, the religious right will undoubtedly criticize them for that.
==External links==
*The Clergy Project website
==References==
Category:Apostate organisations
Clogosphere

The clogosphere is the loose-knit internet community of cranks, quacks, and wingnuts who have started blogs advocating pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, woo, and other crazy ideas. The word "clogosphere" is derived from blogosphere but captures the negative aspects of it, "clogging" rational discourse and impeding cultural progress the tubes.
RationalWiki covers the day-to-day activities of the clogosphere at RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?.
Not to be confused with an eccentric British sport.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Webshites
 
Category:Neologisms
Closet

Being "in the closet" is an idiom for concealing one's sexuality (most usually a LGBTQ orientation) due to an embodiment of social and cultural pressure of sexual norms.
When a closeted person chooses to be open about their sexuality, this is known as "coming out of the closet" or simply "coming out". Sometimes a closeted homosexual is "outed" involuntarily by other people. Outing people against their wishes is generally frowned upon, though not by tabloid journalists and editors. Involuntary outing has also been done by activists, such as did to with a variety of motives, including creating celebrities and heroes for the gay community, or confronting perceived hypocrisy.
The concept of being "in the closet" or "coming out" has also expanded to areas unrelated to sexuality, such as religious or political affiliation.
==Closet sexuality==
Since the majority of human societies have been largely heteronormative and homophobic, many thousands of LGBT people have lived in the closet (to a greater or lesser extent) throughout history. Gay or lesbian subcultures have existed clandestinely in many societies, but widespread disapproval or persecution has made it difficult to openly identify as homosexual. The LGBT rights movement has worked to change this through increasing tolerance and acceptance, though coming out still remains a difficult struggle for many people.
Some policies and working practices, most notably the US military's now-defunct "don't ask, don't tell" policy, have effectively mandated gay people staying in the closet. "Don't ask, don't tell" was introduced as an awkward compromise between LGBT rights and traditionalist (i.e. homophobic) attitudes towards military service, but made it obligatory for serving homosexuals to lie about their personal lives, since coming out would result in a discharge.https://www.britannica.com/event/Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell
==In other contexts==
By analogy, the phrases "closet" and "coming out" are often used in other contexts where a person feels that there is some aspect of their life or identity that they cannot be open about, or where being open may involve a certain amount of confrontation or drama, such as being an atheist within an overtly religious community, family, or society.
==See also==
* Human Rights Campaign - organizes a national coming out day
==Notes==
==References==
 
Category:Discrimination
Category:LGBT
Category:Neologisms
Cloth coat Republican

"Cloth coat Republican" is a phrase denoting Republicans of humbler means and lifestyle. The term originated with a 1952 speech by Richard Nixon in response to accusations of corruption, where he referred to his and his wife's modest lifestyle. It's basically the exact opposite of a Champagne socialist.
The "cloth coat" is intended to contrast with the "fur coat" worn by the privileged wives of political men. The "ideal" was Pat Nixon, the wife of Tricky Dick, a self-made man who was utterly paranoid in so many ways we will only address one here: he was from the "folk," not the select few who went to Ivy League colleges and lived lives of pre-ordained privilege. As such, he hated the people who had managed to climb the ladder of power with assistance from their relatives and backgrounds, and tried to emphasize his struggle to succeed in spite of all odds.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was also arguably a "cloth coat Republican" as he didn't have a family that propped him up in becoming General and later President. Although Abraham Lincoln beat him to the punch by a good century.
Another label was the Rotary Club "Rockefeller Republicans," named after Nelson Rockefeller despite their significant wealth (and who Nixon probably disliked for being so privileged); they failed to combat the New Right, and now we all have to pay for it. 
==See also==
*Champagne socialist, the polar opposite of the term
*Radical Republicans
*False consciousness
==References==
Category:Political terms
Club for Growth

The Club for Growth is an American conservative 501(c)4 non-profit Super-PAC.
The Club for Growth successfully grows the Democratic Party by clubbing sitting Republican incumbents over the head with primary challenges from the far-right. Congressional seats in states as diverse as Maryland and Idaho have swung to Democratic control after Club for Growth-backed candidates won their Republican primaries. In 2009 an impending primary challenge from a Club for Growth leader drove center-right Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to switch to the Democrats.
The slogan "New York Times-reading, latte-drinking, National Public Radio-listening, Volvo-driving, body-piercing freak show" comes from a Club for Growth-sponsored ad from 2004.Presidential Ad War Under Way, CNN Because trashing coffee and reliable cars and journalism are great conservative traits.
==Policy==
The chief policies the CfG advocate for are extremely libertarian-leaning. They advocate for eliminating the estate tax, cutting income tax rates, supporting "limited government", the privatization of social infrastructure, free trade, "school choice," and tort reform.https://www.clubforgrowth.org/issues/ 
The CfG have also been heavy on pushing climate policy that benefits the interests of big oil, notably having pushed for Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement,https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/332518-club-for-growth-calling-on-trump-to-exit-paris-climate-deal/ as he later did.
The CfG, unsurprisingly, are also cryptocurrency grifters. They even have a PAC called (what else) the "Bitcoin Freedom PAC".https://www.clubforgrowth.org/about/bitcoin-freedom-pac/ Unsurprisingly, this important activism in the fight for currency freedom calls for elections against Democrats and no significant policy proposals.
==2020 US election==
The CfG spent tons of money, to the tunes of millions, to candidates that pushed bullshit conspiracy theories about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that caused the 2021 U.S. coup attempt. Among those who the CfG backed include Josh Hawley and Qanon nut Lauren Boebert.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth
==See also==
*Peter Thiel — one of their "action" wing's big donorsDave Levinthal (August 20, 2012). "Thiel gives tea party super PAC $1M". Politico.Theodore Schleifer (October 18, 2018). "Peter Thiel cut his largest check to the GOP since Trump’s 2016 win". Vox.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Political action groups
Category:Right-wing activists
Category:Thielsphere
Clustering illusion

Clustering illusion is the cognitive bias of seeing a pattern in what is actually a random sequence of numbers or events. It is a type of apophenia related to the gambler's fallacy.
A simple way to understand this illusion is to imagine casting ten pennies in a one foot square space. Unless all of the pennies fall in an exactly even distribution, which is extremely improbable, some pennies will be closer to each other than others and seem to form a cluster or group solely from the random distribution.
It's sometimes called the "hot hand fallacy" due to the belief common among basketball coaches and players that it was best to use players on a hot streak (i.e., those who had a "hot hand"). A study demonstrated that the hot hand was a matter of coaches picking a short run of baskets out of a larger sequence that was more or less random.Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone, and Amos Tversky. The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences. Cognitive Psychology vol. 17, pp. 295-314, 1985. Though there some dispute that the researchers defined "hot hand" (i.e., making exactly one basket following another) differently than basketball players actually conceptualize it (in a vaguer sense).Scientists who claim ‘hot hand’ is a myth have never had one by Tom Siegfried
A similar idea cropped up among birders, known as the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, that once a rare bird is spotted in one area, other rare birds will soon be spotted in the same area. An analysis of the birding database eBird, however, showed that this is unlikely to be a real effect.A rare bird sighting doesn't lead to seeing more kinds of rare birds: The so-called Patagonia Picnic Table Effect is a myth, an analysis of bird sightings suggests by Anushree Dave (February 16, 2021 at 12:57 pm) Science News.The influence of rare birds on observer effort and subsequent rarity discovery in the American birdwatching community by Jesse A. Laney et al. (January 21, 2021) Peerj 9:e10713 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10713.
Randomness is not such an intuitive concept for humans. In addition to being poor at recognizing random sequences for what they are, people are also bad at generating random numbers.Random Number, Wolfram Math
==See also==
*Gambler's fallacy
*Pareidolia
==References==
Category:Psychology
Coal Fax

Coal Fax, referred as The Coalburner Registry, was a white supremacist doxing website that posted personal information of white women who were dating or have dated black people, contributing to "white extinction", probably.Owen, T. (May 13, 2020). "White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take Down". Vice News. Retrieved June 25, 2020.SJ Armstrong. (May 14, 2020). "‘Burn the Coal, Pay the Toll’: The alt-right site targeting women in interracial relationships". Medium. Retrieved June 25, 2020. Yes, it's only black people with whom they have a problem, of course; the alt-right community is known to be afflicted with a fetish for stereotypes of Asian women. Yes, it's focused more on women because there's a woman-hating element, a desire to control women. The site was supposed to be a public service advisory to "prevent men from unknowingly entering into relationships with whores."Woolley, S. (May 12, 2020). "Melbourne teen added to sickening global database of ‘race traitors’". 7News. Retrieved May 13, 2020. The site was registered on sketchy foreign domains because no one wanted to host them, and were registered and protected under Cloudflare.WHOIS information. Retrieved May 13, 2020. Former federal prosecutor Subodh Chandra stated, "The creators of this content are subjecting themselves to civil liability risk, despite all the nonsensical disclaimers. They could very well find themselves subject to prosecution, should anyone be harassed or otherwise harmed as a result of this activity."
The name "coalburner" is a slang term for a spoiled young white woman that rebels against her family and has sex with a black person.Apparently by a noted intellectual "proud white man w/big dick" from Urban Dictionary, but we're not going to link it because the description made us lose our lunch.
==Categories==
The site was split into four categories:
*The traitors: Women who have engaged in miscegenation currently or in the past. Refers to the nonsensical "race traitor" label.
*The brainwashed: Women who have yet to engage in miscegenation but show signs of hatred for their own race or something.
*The cucks: White men who have been revealed to date any of the women in the registry.
*Toll Paid: Women that end up single and in dire circumstances, maybe from victimization from the registry or just they believe women who date black people are more likely to succumb to abusive relationships and then got their just deserts or something. Reference to the saying "burn the coal, pay the toll".
==See also==
*FBI — where you should be reporting this site to.
*Anti-Defamation League — another site that you should be reporting to.
*Colfax, the name of many cities like and also some corporation that manufactures equipment. Also, , a name of a U.S. vice president.
*Gab, of course, is happy to let them have an account.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Alt-right
Category:Doxers
Category:Internet hate sites
Category:Neo-Nazism
Category:Racism
Category:Sexism
Category:Webshites
Coalition government

A coalition government sometimes happens in a multi-party state when no single party has a majority representation following an election.
Countries with a two-party systemA form of party system where two major political parties dominate voting. rarely have any reason for a coalition. However, a small third party or parties might take up some of the slack between the major parties resulting in a hung legislature with neither having sufficient representatives to definitively control the government. The third (fourth, etc.) party might then assume more power than justified by its share of the vote by demanding concessions from one or other of the two main parties to form a coalition.
Coalitions are more common in countries that do not use the "first past the post" system to elect legislators as often more minority parties have a respectable number of electees.
In some countries, such as Israel and Finland, with many represented parties, coalitions are the norm rather than the exception. Such coalitions can be formed from two big parties and one or several smaller parties. Minor parties can get things done much more effectively in the government than by protesting in the opposition, but they often have to make serious compromises to get in.
==UK coalition 2010==
In the UK, following the 2010 election,Actually the figures are for June 2010 following a by-election the makeup of the main legislative body, the House of Commons, was:
Party 	Number of MPs
Conservative 	306
Labour 	258
Liberal Democrat	57
DUP 	8
SNP 	6
Sinn Fein 	5
Plaid Cymru 	3
SDLP 	3
Alliance 	1
English Greens 	1
Although the Conservative Party and its allies had the largest number of seats, they did not have an overall majority. Following a considerable amount of horse-trading (presumably) over some four or so days, the Liberal Democrats agreed to form a coalition with the Conservatives despite their extreme differences on some matters. Whoever gets the coalition with the Liberal Democrats is often what decides who gets to rule a coalition government.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:British politics
Category:Political terms
Codeine

Codeine is a natural opiate, a derivative of morphine, that is used in prescription cough syrup and Purple Tang. In recreational doses (60-400 mg), it induces mild euphoria. In therapeutic doses (10-60 mg), it prevents coughing.
Codeine is sold over-the-counter in preparations containing up to 15mg codeine and either 200mg ibuprofen or 500mg paracetamol per tablet in the UK and Australia, where it is known as Nurofen Plus, Panadeine, Mydol, etc.
Since it is less powerful than morphine, it is less tightly regulated, and in some countries such as Canada and France certain codeine preparations are sold over the counter, without a doctor's prescription.
Large amounts of paracetamol and/or ibuprofen can be fatally toxic to the liver and kidneys respectively, hence users often dissolve the tablets in water and filter it to isolate the water-soluble codeine from the relatively insoluble paracetamol or ibuprofen.
Codeine is actually a "prodrug", i.e. a substance that converts to an active metabolite (in this case morphine) within the human body.
It is nevertheless a significant drug of abuse. Codeine is sometimes used by dependent individuals to stave off opioid withdrawal symptoms until they get their next fix of heroin. Codeine, like other opioids, can be potentiated with subtherapeutic doses of dissociatives such as dextromethorphan. This combination increases the analgesic and euphoriant effects of the drug and also slows down the development of physiological tolerance.
==Structure==
Time to play... Spot the difference!
==See also==
*Heroin
*Legal highs
*Krokodil
==External links==
*
*Drugs.com articles on codeine
 
Category:Chemicals
Category:Drugs
Category:Opiates
Codex Alimentarius

The Codex Alimentarius (or "food code") is a compilation of safety guidelines and handling standards published by a branch of the World Health Organization. It contains general principles that are agreed upon by most health professionals, such as how meat should be processed and the dangers of pesticides, as well as more specific instructions for the collection of testing samples and statistical analyses.
The stated aim of the Codex Alimentarius is to be a "global reference point for consumers, food producers and processors, national food control agencies and the international food trade."Understanding the Codex Alimentarius, WHO. 2006. Despite this aim, and the fact that none of the guidelines or standards in the Codex are binding on any country or its institutions, some people believe that it is part of a global conspiracy to make people eat their vegetables or something even more sinister.
The Alliance for Natural Health Europe, for instance, claims that it is a plan to destroy organic food, natural foods, food supplements and so on.Alliance for Natural Health Europe, Codex Alimentarius campaign They are joined by the usual band of Alex Jones nuts ranting about how everything from vaccines to water fluoridation is part of a secret conspiracy to kill them for knowing the truth.Ian R. Crane, Codex Alimentarius page Part of this is undoubtedly due to the scary Latin name - "International Food Safety Standards" sounds much less like a scary, secretive Vatican-related plot device from a Dan Brown novel than "Codex Alimentarius" does.
According to Wiki4cam, "Codex Alimentarius is a set of rules that want to limit people's freedom of being healthy."
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Cognition

Cognition describes the way we perceive, think, understand, and remember. Humans (and all other animals), being products of evolution, have both positive and negative cognitive abilities. One of the central elements to cognition is pattern recognition. Because evolution benefits species that are able to stay alive, we often have an oversensitive ability to detect patterns in external stimuli where there are none. This phenomenon is called pareidolia. Examples of this include:
* Ink blobs looking like familiar faces and objects
* Random data appearing unrandom and patterned (such as coin flips, see the clustering illusion)
* Seeing jebus!!! in toast
* Continuing to believe that an elevated mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars is a sculpted face, despite the fact that as the imagery has steadily improved, it looks less and less face-like.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Psychology
Cognition Based Medicine

Cognition Based Medicine (CBM) is the woo alternative to evidence based medicine. It is basically an anthroposophical construct which elevates patient perception above objective outcomes such as serum counts; its methodology closely follows the pseudoscientific method. 
CBM criteria as set out in the Swizz Report are:Anthroposophic medicine: effectiveness, utility, costs, safety by Gunver Sophia Kienle et al. (2006) Schattauer, 350 pp. ISBN 3794524950.Homöopathie in der Krankenversorgung: Wirksamkeit, Nutzen, Sicherheit und Wirtschaftlichkeit ; ein HTA-Bericht zur Homöopathie im Rahmen des Programms Evaluation Komplementärmedizin der Schweiz by Gudrun Bornhöft (2006). VAS, 343 pp.Homeopathy in healthcare — Effectiveness, appropriateness, safety, costs: an HTA report on homeopathy as part of the Swiss Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme by Gudrun Bornhöft and Peter F. Matthiessen (2011). Springer, 209 pp.
* before/after temporal relationship
* correspondence of temporal patterns
* correspondence of spatial patterns
* morphological correspondence
* dose-effect correspondence
* process correspondence
* dialogue correspondence
* functional causal gestalt
* functional therapeutic process
Unpacking this list, it amounts to: accept that correlation equals causation, assume that any rationale that sounds even minimally plausible is supporting evidence, never blind or double-blind, and maximise the potential for placebo responses.
Needless to say this is much more satisfactory than scientific investigations which show the outcomes to be consistent with the placebo effect. Under CBM, the placebo effect is a therapeutic effect and therefore a success. As long as the quack and the patient agree it worked, that is the end of the story.
==See also==
* Confirmation bias
* Post-hoc fallacy
* Choice theory
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Alternative medicine promoters