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John Shelby Spong

John Shelby Spong was an American former Episcopalian bishop and liberal Christian author whose writings call for a new interpretation of Christianity relevant for the 21st century.
==Reform== 
Perhaps his most critical (and critiqued) book is A New Christianity for a New World : Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born. In it, he outlines twelve points of reform that make him seem downright rational:
# Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead. So most theological God-talk is today meaningless. A new way to speak of God must be found.
# Since God can no longer be conceived in theistic terms, it becomes nonsensical to seek to understand Jesus as the incarnation of the theistic deity. So the Christology of the ages is bankrupt.
# The Biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense.
# The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
# The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
# The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
# Resurrection is an action of God. Jesus was raised into the meaning of God. It therefore cannot be a physical resuscitation occurring inside human history.
# The story of the Ascension assumed a three-tiered universe and is therefore not capable of being translated into the concepts of a post-Copernican space age.
# There is no external, objective, revealed standard written in scripture or on tablets of stone that will govern our ethical behavior for all time.
# Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
# The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
# All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.List shamelessly ripped from .
===Reception===
Of course, his biggest critics are theologians and apologists. While he never goes so far so as to reject God or the teachings of Jesus altogether, many atheists find him tolerable as his views eschew any notions of condemnation, damnation or Biblical literalism. Richard Dawkins even credits Spong with this observation in The God Delusion:
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John Shimkus

John Shimkus is a member of the Republican Party who served as Representative for Illinois' 20th, 19th, and 15th Congressional Districts from 1997 to 2021, twice having to run for another seat as his district was removed in census apportionments. He was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and was slated to become Chairman if the Republicans took over the House in 2010, as they did. He, instead, became Chairman of the Committee on Environment and the Economy. His extremist wacky anti-science conservative views on climate change drew a lot of media attention. He served in the United States Army, ranked Lieutenant Colonel, and is also qualified as a school teacher and is a member of the Lutheran church.
==Views on climate change==
Shimkus has stated that we really have nothing to worry about with climate change, because God promised Noah that after the great flood, Earth would be fine, so honest, we don't need any regulation.http://www.juancole.com/2010/11/energy-committee-chairman-candidate-says-god-promised-no-more-catastrophic-climate-change-after-noah.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328366/John-Shimkus-Global-warming-wont-destroy-planet-God-promised-Noah.html He's also concerned that, since carbon dioxide is plant food, attempts to cut down on it will actually be harmful to the world.http://www.progressillinois.com/2009/3/27/shimkus-carbon-emissions-plant-food Really.
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John Tanton

John Tanton was a Michigan activist and ophthalmologist. He is best known as one of the major figures behind anti-immigration activism in the United States. He began as an environmental activist, holding leadership positions during the 1970s in the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth as well as Planned Parenthood. This segued into a focus on immigration levels as the primary driver of population growth in the U.S., and starting in 1979 into a narrow obsession with immigration and the related English-only movement. He founded or co-founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), The Social Contract Press, U.S. English, and ProEnglish.
The Tanton network of groups seems to view national identification cards and high-tech surveillance such as entry-exit visa tracking as necessary to "secure the border". They have campaigned in support of passage of the REAL ID Act and used rhetorical appeals to the war on terror and 9/11 to promote immigration restriction; The Social Contract Press has gone so far as to call for a complete ban on immigration by Muslims "for national security reasons" because they are "undermining America's national security, social cohesion, and cultural strength".http://www.thesocialcontract.com/promotions/journal_fall_2010.html Tanton also issued a private memo in 1988 which led to the resignations of Walter Cronkite and Linda Chavez from the U.S. English board after the memo — containing such statements considered offensive by the Hispanic community as "Can homo contraceptivus compete with homo progenitiva"..."Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down!" was leaked by the Arizona Republic.James Crawford, Hold Your Tongue, Chapter 6
When he wasn't insulting Hispanics and campaigning for national ID cards, he keeps busy republishing bad racist novels from FranceThe Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, The Social Contract Press, 1994; orig. Scribners, 1975, co-writing books with Wayne LuttonThe Immigration Invasion by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton, The Social Contract Press, 1994; Lutton is also the co-author of a virulently homophobic book on AIDS with David Noebel, and sending money to Tom Tancredo"Tancredo's Dubious Allies", The American Spectator, January 16, 2007. He also founded the Society for Genetic Education, which is described by some as supporting eugenics.
==External links==
*"Keeping America Empty", In These Times profile, April 24, 2006.
*His profile on the Southern Poverty Law Center, which notably has no mention of his environmental activities.
==References==
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John Thomas Sladek

John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels. He was also a prominent materialist and skeptic who devoted time to debunking pseudoscience, occult beliefs and conspiracy theories. 
His book The New Apocrypha (1974) is an excellent demolition of the pseudoscience being peddled at the time. It's probably on eBay and worth a punt.
==External links==
* at Wikipedia
* An interview with John Sladek
* ISFDb entry
* Guardian newspaper obituary
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John William Dunne

John William Dunne was a British engineer and author. He was best known for his ideas about the nature of time.
==Hypothesis==
Dunne wrote that people could experience precognitive dreams and enter the future in a dream state. After experiencing a number of dreams Dunne proposed a new hypothesis that linear time was an illusion brought about by perception in consciousness. Dunne proposed that the past, present and future all in fact occur simultaneously. He is most well known for his book An Experiment with Time (1927). He also wrote that an infinite regress, or series of dimensions exist within time and that life is immortal as it exists in each of these dimensions infinitely. He also wrote The Serial Universe (1934), The New Immortality (1938), Nothing Dies (1940).
Recent paranormal writer Anthony Peake has attempted to update the ideas of Dunne.
==Science==
Dunne was an engineer with some interesting ideas, but it was revealed he was a spiritualist and medium. Scientists have doubted some of his claims, especially those about precognition which could never be proven with science.
Scientists such as Paul Davies have written that there is no scientific evidence for more than one time and that Dunne's argument seems ad hoc.Paul Davies (1996) About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684818221.
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John Yiamouyiannis

John Yiamouyiannis was an American biochemistDr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoridation Opponent, Dead at 58 by Stephen Barrett (May 7, 2019) Quackwatch. and the most prominent opponent of water fluoridation in the United States until his death in 2000. He is the author of the book Fluoride: the Aging Factor,Fluoride: the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride by John Yiamouyiannis (1993) Health Action Press. ISBN 0913571032. the pamphlet A Lifesaver's Guide to Fluoridation,Lifesavers Guide to Fluoridation: Risks/Benefits Evaluated in this 1983 Question and Answer Report by John Yiamouyiannis (1983) Safe Water Foundation. as well as the co-author (with Peter Duesberg) of AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn't Cause It.AIDS: The Good News Is HIV Doesn't Cause It. The Bad News is "Recreational Drugs" and Medical Treatments like AZT do by Peter Duesberg & John Yiamouyiannis (1995) Health Action Press. ISBN 0913571059.
He was best known for being the "go-to" person for those trying to stop fluoridation in their communities. Originally he had been the biochemical editor at Chemical Abstracts Service, where he became convinced fluoridation was dangerous. He was the "science director" of the National Health Federation (an anti-fluoride, pro-quackery advocacy group) from 1974 to 1980, who hired him to "break the back of promoters' efforts to fluoridate more American cities." His pamphlet "A Lifesaver's Guide to Fluoridation" was usually distributed by opponents anywhere where fluoride was being considered, and Yiamouyiannis was often called to testify before local city councils and county boards in opposition. In 1980 he left the National Health Federation to start his own anti-fluoridation advocacy group, the National Health Action Committee. His claims that fluoride causes cancer, speeds up the aging process, causes bone deterioration, etc. have been disproven (at least in the low levels in municipal water supplies) by many scientific studies yet he persisted in spreading disinformation. In the early 1990s he found another angle to use, an environmentalist one: fluoridation was a plot by industries such as to dispose of their toxic waste by putting it in our drinking water.
He also ran for President in 1992 as an independent, but was only on the ballot in a few states. He died of colorectal cancer in 2000, which he chose to have treated in several Mexican clinics with laetrile and vitamins instead of seeking conventional treatment. Colorectal cancer has a 95% chance of survival beyond 5 years if caught early and properly treated using scientifically proven methods.
Since his death, the anti-fluoridation movement has passed on to others and his work and name have become much less prominent — to the point that Wikipedia does not (yet) even have an article about him.Search results for "John Yiamouyiannis" on Wikipedia.
==External links==
*Quackwatch article
*Excerpts from Fluoride, the Aging Factor
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Johnson-Reed Act

The Johnson-Reed Act, a.k.a. the Asian Exclusion Act (not to be confused with the the Immigration Act of 1924, or the National Origins Act) was a racially-motivated law passed by Congress restricting immigration in an era of extremist nativism. Its primary targets were Asians and Eastern Europeans.https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Immigration-Act-of-1924/
The architects of the Johnson-Reed Act were far-right Republicans and who were motivated by eugenics and hatred of immigrants. Johnson's long-held ties to the Ku Klux Klan were exemplified in legislating their anti-immigration agenda obsessed with white racial demographics, and his subsequent 1926 re-election as a congressman emerged as a priority for the national KKK so, in the Klan's words, "so he can continue to be Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and fight for restricted immigration laws."https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_politicians.htm Whether he ever claimed Klan membership is unknown, however.https://www.historylink.org/File/20718 Ideological allies and influencers of Johnson included anti-Semitic diplomat author of a 1920 report branding Jewish refugees as "inferior."Daniel J. Tichenor, Dividing Lines, p. 157. Reed's inherent cynical attitudes were subsequently repeated in manifestation years later in overtly advocating a revolutionary alteration of the United States government under a model of Louis Fisher, Congressional Abdication on War and Spending, p. 29.
Antipathy towards big business was a traditional factor motivating immigration restriction. Business interests were viewed as a cycling perpetuation of wage reduction by opening doors to immigrants over "native-born" Americans, a viewpoint held by Johnson.Kristofer Allerfeldt, Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self-Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s, p. 15.
Passage of the Johnson-Reed Act in the United States House of Representatives was overwhelming, and President Calvin Coolidge signed the bill after Senate approval. Following legal enacting, a published editorial by Reed on The New York Times boasted of "America of the Melting Pot Comes to End."https://www.nytimes.com/1924/04/27/archives/america-of-the-melting-pot-comes-to-end-effects-of-new-immigration.html Contemporary defenders of Coolidge point to his disdain of racial exclusion and the veto-proof congressional passage,https://coolidgefoundation.org/blog/were-all-in-the-same-boat-now-coolidge-on-immigration/ although his eugenicist viewpoints motivating regressive immigration policy are hardly praiseworthy.
Provisions of the Johnson-Reed Act faced only partial repeal in 1952 by the .https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/immigration-act
==External links==
*The 1924 Law That Slammed the Door on Immigrants and the Politicians Who Pushed it Back Open
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Jon Kyl

Jon Kyl is a current former current former United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican Party Senate minority whip, which means that it is his job to "whip" his colleagues into shape and get them to vote together. Which means we can blame him (in part) for much of the obstructionism that went on in the Senate. He had long been noted as a particularly effective Senator.David Burnett. Jon Kyl: The Operator." Time. 2006 April 14. On September 4, 2018, he was selected by Arizona governor Doug Ducey to replace the late Senator John McCain.https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/09/04/jon-kyl-named-john-mccain-replacement-senate-appointment-ducey/1148030002/. He resigned on December 31, 2018, and Martha McSally was named as his replacement.
==Women's medical issues==
In 2009, Kyl offered up an amendment that would prevent the federal government from mandating health insurance companies provide maternity care, regardless of the fact that only fourteen states mandated coverage for maternity care and overall coverage for maternity care was declining. "I don't need maternity care," said Kyl, "So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don't need and will make the policy more expensive." Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan responded by saying, "I think your mom probably did." The amendment was defeated by the Senate Finance Committee.Amanda Terkel. Kyl Asserts ‘I Don’t Need Maternity Care’ In My Health Policy; Stabenow Shoots Back ‘Your Mom Probably Did’." ThinkProgress. 2009 September 25.
===On Planned Parenthood===
In 2011, Kyl, in an attempt to shoehorn a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood into legislation preventing the shutdown of the United States government, stated that 90% of the activities performed by Planned Parenthood were related to abortion. When confronted with the fact that abortions constituted less than 3% of Planned Parenthood's business, and no American tax revenues were spent on abortions, Kyl's spokespeople clarified that the claim was "not intended to be a factual statement". The statement caused such a stir (for certainly, if it wasn't meant to be factual, why was it stated?) among fellow senators, pundits and the media that many senators went out of their way to clarify that their statements were intended to be factual.Jennifer Epstein. Jon Kyl's 'factual statement' flap comes full circle." Politico. 2011 April 4. Stephen Colbert jumped on the opportunity to tweet jokes with the hashtag NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement, which briefly became a trending topic.
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Jonanism

Jonanism is the logical fallacy of believing that everyone you hate is the same. The term is a portmanteau of the name of Jonah Goldberg, and Onanism.
==Definition==
# The belief that everybody you hate is exactly the same.
# The belief that since nobody takes you seriously, you must be very serious.
# Any attempt to popularize these beliefs in book and associated website form.
==Offenders==
Fundamentalists and many religious right pundits tend to label anybody who disagrees with them "Anti-Christian" or "Anti-Judeo-Christian values". Wingnuts usually call nearly anybody who disagrees with them "liberal" or "leftist", and moonbats may call anyone who argues with them "fascist", "racist", or something similar. However, in order to fit the label of this fallacy, the person must be some sort of pathetic pundit or activist who tries to push their nonsense through cheap mediums such as books or websites. When ignored or laughed off, these pundits or activists may believe it is proof that their "enemies" control the media or other institutions. One could say that "Jonanism" is the combination of several fallacies, mainly overgeneralizations, the false dilemma ("With us or against us!"), and the Galileo gambit.
==Examples==
Keep in mind that the offenders have to be considered "fringe", "nutty", or just plain stupid by most of society. Jerry Falwell actually had power and was influential, so he couldn't qualify, whereas the pundits below are largely considered jokes and couldn't change much no matter how hard they tried. Most of these people believe that the fact that they have to resort to cheap means to get their point across is evidence that their enemies control the media or that they're persecuted. For actually influential people who think all their critics are the same, see fallacy of opposition.
==See also==
*Other
*Persecution complex
*Wingnut welfare
*The Gateway Pundit
==External links==
*The Poor Man Institute -Vocabulary Corner
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Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden (1962-2012) was a far-right British commentator known for his involvement with the British National Party and the New Right (Europe).
==Political career==
Born in Penbury in 1962, Bowden became involved with the Federation of Conservative Students in the 1980s.http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/blogs/searchlight-blog/new-right-chairman-dies In 1993, he and Stuart Millson founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus. He then became involved in the Bloomsbury Forum, founded in 1996; he joined the newly-launched Freedom Party in 2001 and subsequently became its treasurer. He moved on to the British National Party in 2003, becoming the party's cultural officer.
In 2005, he attended the first New Right meeting, later becoming chairman of the organisation.http://web.archive.org/web/20110725184319/http://www.jonathanbowden.co.uk/interview.html In 2007, he got into a dispute with BNP leader Nick Griffin, with Griffin's supporters responding by accusing Bowden of being a child molester; Bowden denied these claims and subsequently resigned from the party.http://efp.org.uk/jonathan-bowden-1962-2012/http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.co.uk/2007/07/bnps-cultural-officer-resigns-after.html After this incident he focused his attentions on the New Right.
In 2012, he died of a heart attack, aged 49.
==Writing==
One of Bowden's areas of interest was analysing popular fiction through the lens of his political views; he cast his eyes over The Incredible Hulkhttp://www.counter-currents.com/2011/07/the-incredible-hulk/ Conan the Barbarianhttp://www.counter-currents.com/2011/07/conan-the-barbarian/ and Batman,http://www.counter-currents.com/2010/11/batman-the-joker/ amongst other works. His essays contain many astute observations: "All super-heroes are elitist and non-humanist figures who fight for Humanist values against elitist figurines (the villains) who fight on behalf of power morality", he wrote in his examination of The Incredible Hulk.
==Art==
Bowden was a keen artist, expressing a desire to "create new and ferocious forms" and "paint the most ferocious image of my time". He described his work as "passionate integers of fury." His paintings had a distinctive style and were hailed by a number of his right-wing comrades.<capture>http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/01/jonathan-bowden-on-modern-art/</capture>
He had a particular interest in early modernist art, as he elaborated:
In addition to painting, Bowden was involved in filmmaking, collaborating with Andrea Lioy on the films Grand Guignol and Venus Flytraphttp://web.archive.org/web/20110725184834/http://www.jonathanbowden.co.uk/articles.html#ggreview and writing and narrating a documentary about his art called Fenris Devours Odin.http://web.archive.org/web/20100714075337/http://www.jonathanbowden.co.uk/fenris_devours_odin.html
==External links==
* Punch and Judy: a short film starring Jonathan Bowden.
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