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I concede that your version of the murder of Hypatia is more correct than what I wrote. I do not think it lessens the negative effect of that murder had on ending the Classical Age of Scholarship and led to the Dark Ages. I found this. Murder of Hypatia Death on the Nile – The End of Hypatia...

I have found many things in my life that please me. I was pleased because I had the freedom to not believe in gods, without state punishment. I spent three years in Ruanda during the Civil War, plague, and famine. At the time I believed I made a serious mistake. People were dying of wounds...

Is America to eventually repeal the First Amendment? If it were a public vote, the amendment would be repealed and replaced by a "Christian Nation" Amendment. Ratification by 37 states is a shoo in since liberals, Religious Freedom supporters, Atheists, Agnostics, and Rationalists are...

Don't blame me for revealing this problem. The Conservative, openly christian press of America is reluctant to investigate or report on this issue. A few like the NY Times takes this risky stand. Very few newspapers or telecommunications new agencies are eager to cover stories about Christian...

You show your real character or lack thereof. Tell the parents of Pat Tillman (former NFL player who volunteered for duty after 9-11) that he was not shot because he publically admitted his Atheism. Did they shoot him because they hated the Arizona Cardinals or the NFL in general? His death and...

I am not sure but I tend to agree with you, mostly. Christianity really had nothing to do with Jesus at all. Only his name was used in the manufacture of a brand new God, Christ and an Indo-European Style Trinity. Most Indo-European religions had a Father God, a Son of that God, and a Messenger...

Complaints include prayers “in Jesus’ name” at mandatory functions, which violates military regulations, and officers proselytizing subordinates to be “born again.” “Religion is inextricably intertwined with their jobs,” Mr. Weinstein said. “You’re promoted by who you pray with.” Though with...

This is a cut-paste from Facebook by a retired US Army Officer. Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/us/26atheist.html Last month, Specialist Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group, filed suit in federal court...

Memes criteria are: All complex ideas acquired by the brain are memes Complex ideas/information that physically alter brain circuits Complex ideas that extend existing circuits with new axons and synapses Complex ideas that divert and reduce extent of other circuits Circuits so altered cause...

The mechanism you are describing is meme repetition. Reading the Bible repeatedly to mental exhaustion is the classical meme complex alteration of brain circuits. When the idea is irrational as Christianity most certainly is irrational, our rational-sceptical programme circuits rejects it. That...

Belief in magic and idiotic mythology is one sign of the economic decline of America. 40% of Americans are incapable of rational thinking, critical analysis, and scepticism. At Liberty University which is not a real university where diverse views are presented. It is a brainwashing institution...

Hitler's Nazism was a coalition of Aggressive Nationalism (WAR), Big Industry, and Official State Christianity. Hitler repealed the Weimar Republic's separation of church and state. Hitler made Lutheran Christianity and Catholicism both official religions of Germany. German workers paid a...

That is a load of bollocks. I lived in America for over a year. American Catholics attend Church mostly for social contacts and ethnic identities. Most Catholic women do not follow the Pope on birth control, abortion, and divorce. Catholics with bachelor degrees know the fact of Evolution, the...

It is an unproven assumption that man suddenly achieved a different awareness. We don't know if it was fundamentally different from Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, or Homo neandertalensis. We don't know if it was qualitatively different from other Apes...

I have been free to search for the truth myself. My Christian mother believed in freedom of choice in belief. My father was an Atheist who also championed freedom of religion no matter how insane it appears to be. I thus had religion in schools, read the Bible page by page and parts of it many...

A red hot lava flow is rolling down the hill toward you. You have the free will to run away from it or .stay there and burn in the liquid lav. That is Christian Free Will. A man with a glassy-eyed facial expression and sardonic smile says, "you have a free choice." He holds a 50 calibre Desert...

CHRISTIANITY: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil...

Let me state clearly that I view Lucifer as a fictional God. I am commenting on the meaning of his story in Christian Mythology. There is clearly a certain attraction to Lucifer, bordering on admiration. Lucifer was supposed to be a very intelligent fellow. He presumably knew that he could not...

All Bronze Age Father gods or monotheistic gods were invented most likely by warlord-shamans like Moses. He designed a god with ultimate avarice, narcissism, cruelty, vindictiveness, homicide, infliction of suffering, demand for absolute obedience, horrible punishment, constant anger, need for...