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| CHRISTIAN LEADERS' STANCE ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IS DANGEROUS - Preview not available | Gary H | Nov 28, 2009 |
| Zuckerman research on atheists and apostates - Preview not available | Gary H | Nov 26, 2009 |
| Re: Why I Want to Turn Religious People Into Atheists, by Christina - "Thus philosophy, religion, political ideas, and sometimes even science are transformed into ideologies, controlled by the respective bureaucrats." [ ... and power ] -- Eric Fromm --- On Thu, 11/26/09, frish wrote: > Dat | Gary H | Nov 26, 2009 |
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Bronowski's powerful statement of Humanism and Science -
Bronowski's powerful statement of Humanism and Science
Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man
"Science is a very human form of knowledge"
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v |
Gary H | Nov 26, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Why I Want to Turn Religious People Into Atheists, by Christina - Nice try Greta, here's where you go wrong! The author exclaims: " | frish | Nov 26, 2009 |
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Why I Want to Turn Religious People Into Atheists, by Christina -
Why I Want to Turn Religious People Into Atheists
By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Posted on November 26, 2009, Printed on November 26, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/ |
Gary H | Nov 26, 2009 |
| Godman Sachs CEO "Doing God's Work" making record profits - Preview not available | Gary H | Nov 24, 2009 |
| Canadian Anglicans express concern about Uganda anti-gay laws. - CANADA: Council expresses dismay over Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill Episcopal-Life In October, Anglican Bishop Stanley Ntagali of the Diocese of Masindi-Kitara in Uganda told Ecumenical News International that homosexuals should not face | Gary H | Nov 22, 2009 |
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Anti-Homosexual laws harm AIDS prevention. Uganda. Anglican influence - **** related stories below ****
latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe |
Gary H | Nov 21, 2009 |
| Treating Religion as a metaphor - What if People Actually Treated Religion as Just a Metaphor (Like Trekkies and Secular Jews)? By Greta Christina, AlterNet It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating d | Gary H | Nov 20, 2009 |
| "Love thy neighbor." WA Post. "The Lonely Life of Number Nine" - "We may never know the consequences of inhospitality" -- Gary the Grouch -- -- -- The lonely life of 'Number Nine' By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 8, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/yesahjj EXCERPTS: "As h | Gary H | Nov 16, 2009 |
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Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of Mission to the Sick and the Poor -
http://www.alternet.org/story/ |
Gary H | Nov 16, 2009 |
| Keep Religious Doctrine Out of the Law - Preview not available | Gary H | Nov 14, 2009 |
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Standing up to Jesus -
Atheists, It's Time to Stand Up to Jesus
By Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk,
Civility has its uses, but atheists should not be afraid to mock faith to undermine religious power.
http://www.alternet.org/story/ |
Gary H | Nov 9, 2009 |
| Schopenhauer: Religion. a Dialogue (between two atheists) - Arthur Schopenhauer Religion. a Dialogue. from a collection of essays: Parerga und Paralipomena (1851) Dialog between two imaginary characters, both atheist, one arguing for the social utility of atheism and the other against religion as truth or | Gary H | Nov 8, 2009 |
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Being Good without God: Book Review -
http://www.religiondispatches. |
Gary H | Nov 8, 2009 |
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Prayer treatment may be included in health insurance reform -
Prayer Treatments Covered In Health Care Reform Bills
http://www.medicalnewstoday.co |
Gary H | Nov 7, 2009 |
| Re: Censorship in Rancho Cucamonga - | Dan Burke | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] daylight backward time begins tonight/early am Nov. 1 - I agree that the whole concept is inane. Changing the clock setting doesn't save daylight! --- On Sat, 10/31/09, Gary H wrote: > From: Gary H > Subject: [atheists-614] daylight backward time begins tonight/ear | Nate Gainsboro | Nov 1, 2009 |
| daylight backward time begins tonight/early am Nov. 1 - turn clocks back 1 hour tonight. (at least I think so) in California It never ceases to amaze me that each year this gets less and less publicity in the media. I've been to many a meeting now and then that people were late or early, 1 hour. Eve | Gary H | Oct 31, 2009 |
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liberal religious and liberal non-religious make claims unsupported by science -
3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People
By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog
Posted on October 30, 2009,
http://www.alternet.org/story/ |
Gary H | Oct 31, 2009 |
| As heard on Christian Radio, a "soulful" (sorry!) question of the ages... - Are ghosts departed spirits or demons? | frish | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Minority organizations applaud Pres. signing of anti-hate crimes bill - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 29, 2009 |
| supporting the environment supports Humans - file under environmental references: EARTH PORTAL About the EarthPortal The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to | Gary H | Oct 27, 2009 |
| file under inclusiveness: Princeton University - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 27, 2009 |
| natural selection and empathy, it's the norm... - natural selection and empathy, it's the norm... our better selves as humans... Really interesting topic and speaker who was interviewed on NPR's Science Friday. He's no fatalist. In addition to his discussion on group identity and empathy, he is not a | Gary H | Oct 25, 2009 |
| British Secretary: Religion does not hold a monopoly on morality. - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 24, 2009 |
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Nobel Prize-winning author denounced the Bible -
http://rawstory.com/2009/10/no |
Gary H | Oct 20, 2009 |
| Atheists on pros and cons of religion. - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 19, 2009 |
| New Conservative Bible will eliminate 'liberal' text - My comment: If the Bible is the infallible divinely inspired word of God, why does it need to be edited by a mere mortal? They will have to remove the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount, probably the entire chapter of the minor prophet "Amos" | Gary H | Oct 18, 2009 |
| Tituba's Nigerian Children: Churches involved in torture, murder of children denounced as witches - Nigeria. One of the themes that is almost always overlooked in Arthur Miller's play, "The Crucible" and other Salem witchcraft stories is misfortune and economic pressure. This story makes that more explicit. -- Gary the Grouch from photo caption: | Gary H | Oct 18, 2009 |
| Joseph Wood Krutch: Humanist and naturalist - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 17, 2009 |
| Right Wing and Islamo consiracy. - One of the important roles of dissenters and free thinkers is to critique the dominant cultural, economic or political paradigm. Odd, isn't it, that the right wing never suggests a vast Christian conspiracy? Yet, look how pervasive are the reactionary b | Gary H | Oct 17, 2009 |
| song "Science if real" and reaction. - The Music group "They Might Be Giants" has managed to offend some Christians. Some who find it objectionable that angels are classed with unicorns. Reactions on the YouTube.com web site. SCIENCE IF REAL Science is real From the Big Bang to DNA Sc | Gary H | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Hillary Clinton and "The Family" - Previously, until the news on "The Family" fellowship of C Street, I would never have suspected that Hillary Clinton was anything but a free thinker and probably a skeptic when it comes to religion. But now we know. And she's affiliated with the right w | Gary H | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Re: Holocaust Deniers - Those idiots who deny the Holocaust are anti-historical and not interested in facts. Pictures will not change their mind. Those of us born in the first few years after WW II have been well exposed to those pictures and stories. The Diary of Ann Frank i | Gary H | Oct 14, 2009 |
| Republican Senate Sex Scandals Point Back to Secretive Conservative Christian "Family" - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 14, 2009 |
| Holocaust Deniers - Got a pretty horrendous email today from a friend who felt the need to share pics of the holocaust with me "so we shouldn't forget | frish | Oct 13, 2009 |
| classic Feuerbach on religion - Hi all, There is been a spate of books recently on political fundamentalist Christianity and it's influence on the body politic. This is a classic deep essay that goes beneath the usual trite clichés about why people believe in God. Ludwig Feue | Gary H | Oct 6, 2009 |
| a Chris quote - "Everything we know about philosophy, we first learnt because of religion. It deserves respect for being humanity's first attempt to make sense of everything, to discover knowledge." -- Christopher Hitchens quoted in: Faith makes us "serfs": Hit | Gary H | Oct 5, 2009 |
| Comment re. opposing false beliefs - Listener comment to an NPR program on brain neurobiology and God belief and religious experience: Statistics say about 85% of people have some belief in religion in the US. Unfortunately, that percentage is more than the inverse of scientific litera | Gary H | Oct 4, 2009 |
| Your Brain on God. (redux from NPR) - Preview not available | Gary H | Oct 4, 2009 |
| Richard Dawkins at his very best... natural selection and kindness - All, (URL's included) I often seriously object to some forms of militant atheism. I'm even at times angered by displays of atheist intolerance of any hint of "spiritually" or religion and militant atheism's at times demonstration of profound ignorance | Gary H | Oct 2, 2009 |
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POLITICAL FUNDAMENTALISM. Politics As Religion In America -
latimes.com/news/opinion/comme |
Gary H | Oct 2, 2009 |
| Religion and the Human Prospect - Superb interview, about 8 pages. Well worth the time on an in depth reading. Alexander Saxton analyzes several intersecting issues and he gives religion a historical context. -- Gary the Grouch Freedom from Religion: An Interview with Alexander | Gary H | Sep 29, 2009 |
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INFO: Understanding the Right. PublicEye.org -
Researching the political right extremes.
> Understanding the U.S. Political Right
> http://www.publiceye.org/study |
Gary H | Sep 19, 2009 |
| RE: [atheists-614] Pelosi, assassinations, and right wing... - Blank BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica; COLO | Bruce Gleason | Sep 19, 2009 |
| Pelosi, assassinations, and right wing... - Pelosi links Milk assassination, current right-wing uproar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is urging Republicans and others engaged in the health care debate to rachet down the rhetoric, saying the heated climate reminds her of San Francisco in | Gary H | Sep 19, 2009 |
| Re: Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - Thank you Julie, I appreciate your reply. later, Gary the Grouch gary100dm [AT] yahoo.com --- On Fri, 9/18/09, Julia Baumann wrote: > From: Julia Baumann > Subject: Re: [atheists-614] Re: Unau | Gary H | Sep 18, 2009 |
| RE: [atheists-614] Re: Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } "Let's be fair minded people and not make sweeping generalizations about all t | Armel P. | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Re: Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - Gary, I am just responding to the email I received that had the word "teabagger" in it. I didn't make up that term about these Christians. But from personal experience I know that many people wi | Julia Baumann | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Re: Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - Julie, I'm not apologist for right wing Christians, but you are completely wrong if you assume that all Christians follow the doctrine or political philosophy that you describe as that of the "tea baggers". Even some evangelicals, some of whom are on | Gary H | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - It is a self-fulfilling prophecy -- Christians feel they are bringing in the return and judgment of Jesus so who cares what they do to the Earth? Their prophecies include the entire collapse of the world e | Julia Baumann | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - hahahahah thanks man Good, scary, but hilarious. The tables have turned somewhat drastically from 2003. -Dima ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary H" To: Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 8 | Dima | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Blumenthat interview on right wing evangelist movement - Preview not available | Gary H | Sep 18, 2009 |
| RE: [atheists-614] Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - Blank BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica; COLO | Bruce Gleason | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour. at the WA DC demo with Max Blumenthal - All of you should watch this. The T-baggers are far worse then mainstream media, even MSNBC, is portraying them. They are not just misguided people (which they are) with a difference of opinion, they are dangerous ignorant "True Believer" fanatics easil | Gary H | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Humanists for Peace and Social Justice - possible affinity group. I'm broadcasting this broadly. Those who are interesting in exploring an association under this name let me know in a private email. possible group affinity group name. HUMANISTS FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. Idea: | Gary H | Sep 12, 2009 |
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Quiz: What kind of humanist are you? -
QUIZ:
What kind of humanist are you?
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2088 |
Gary H | Sep 11, 2009 |
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The Humanism of Senator Edward Kennedy -
The Humanism of Senator Edward Kennedy
By Paul Kurtz
http://www.centerforinquiry.ne |
Gary H | Sep 11, 2009 |
| COPY: HALA Sept. 13: How America became "Christian" - COPY --- On Fri, 9/4/09, ltaylor934 wrote: > From: ltaylor934 > Subject: [HALA-Announce] HALA Sept. 13: How America became "Christian" > To: [address removed] > Date: Friday, Sept | Gary H | Sep 8, 2009 |
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MSNBC poll "In God We Trust" on USA currency - pass it on:
poll: should "In God We Trust" stay on our currency?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10 |
Gary H | Sep 5, 2009 |
| "my church is this very chapel of democracy" - Scene from film "The Contender" with Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, and Christian Slater Congressional Hearing. (fictional movie characters) Vice Presidential nominee Hanson: Dear Mr. Chairman ... I stand for the separation of the ch | Gary H | Sep 3, 2009 |
| Historians on Superstition - Will & Ariel Durant on Superstition The Age of Reason Begins (Simon & Schuster: 1961), p. 575. Religions are born and may die, but superstition is immortal. Only the fortunate can take life without mythology. see: http://afterall.net/quotes/4 | Gary H | Sep 2, 2009 |
| Arabs paying the price of the Holocaust - Note: I've read that there are two basic versions among Jews of the lessons of the Holocaust. One is profound compassion for anyone who suffers from oppression and a universal sensitivity of human rights of all, and a humanitarian doctrine of "never ag | Gary H | Aug 31, 2009 |
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Parenting for Humanists, etc. -
Mindful Minute:
parenting for Humanists, atheists, and agnostics
http://www.examiner.com/x-8993 |
Gary H | Aug 31, 2009 |
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The Religious Right's Adoption Racket -
Preying on the Desperate: The Religious Right's Adoption Racket
By Kathryn Joyce, The Nation. Posted August 29, 2009.
http://www.alternet.org/reprod |
Gary H | Aug 30, 2009 |
| Libertarians for Fire Care. Take personal responsibility - Privatize the Fire Department NOW! and save tax payers money. Individuals should take repsonsibility for their own fires and not have to pay for their neighbors fire care. Public Fire Departments are a theft from private individuals. -- Gary Pri | Gary H | Aug 30, 2009 |
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HUMOR: A service for Christian pet lovers... -
Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA
The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World
http://eternal-earthbound-pets |
Gary H | Aug 28, 2009 |
| Out of the Closet ? Black Atheists - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 27, 2009 |
| Can Atheists Be Parents? - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 26, 2009 |
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Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason -
Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
by: Johann Hari, The Independent UK
http://www.truthout.org/082209 |
Gary H | Aug 24, 2009 |
| A Techie Progressive Humanist speaks out... - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 24, 2009 |
| Liberty quote - William Hazlitt, the great 19th Century English essayist and defender of human freedom, said: "Abstract reason, unassisted by passion, is no match for power and prejudice, armed with force and cunning. The love of liberty is the love of others; t | Gary H | Aug 23, 2009 |
| Jesus Christ for children - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 22, 2009 |
| Quote: for Humanism or determinism - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 20, 2009 |
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Washington's "Christian Mafia" -
MSNBC's Maddow Show Propels Growing Scandal Over Washington's "Christian Mafia"
By Bruce Wilson
Now Christian media have started digging into the story.
Read more >>
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/ |
Gary H | Aug 20, 2009 |
| FRAUD: Your e-mail account will be cancelled, you must reply. - HOAX report. Instant Messaging/Social Networking Cancellation Hoax Is your free e-mail, IM service, or social networking site about to cancel the accounts of users who don't forward or repost an e-mail? If you received a message that you must r | Gary H | Aug 19, 2009 |
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psychic Mark Edward demonstration -
spiritual reading
Mark Edward demonstrates his psychic ability.
"THE TRUTH! Movie 01" on you tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v |
Gary H | Aug 15, 2009 |
| Poll, tax funding of churches - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 13, 2009 |
| Cowboy brings Christ to kids - Christian Cowboy Plots to Bring Christ into Kids' Social Studies Class Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine Belief: David Barton likens himself to a biblical prophet. He wants to destroy the separation of church and state. Why is he designing schoo | Gary H | Aug 11, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Lobbyist-Run hate groups disrupt Health Care Town Hall meetings. - Gary, Humans and ethics are always a volatile mixture. No system - religious, political, social or economic - can function better than the people living in it and operating it. Unfortunately, it's extremely pos | Chuck A | Aug 10, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Lobbyist-Run hate groups disrupt Health Care Town Hall meetings. - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 10, 2009 |
| Re: [atheists-614] Lobbyist-Run hate groups disrupt Health Care Town Hall meetings. - Dear G.T. Grouch, Thanks for your excerpt (at bottom of this email). Back in December 2004 I wrote and had web-published a piece on fascist propaganda techniques. I'm pasting in some parts of this which are especial | Chuck A | Aug 10, 2009 |
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Lobbyist-Run hate groups disrupt Health Care Town Hall meetings. -
Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls
By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. Posted August 7, 2009.
http://www.alternet.org/health |
Gary H | Aug 10, 2009 |
| Mixed marriage: "... the issue of religion hovers over their relationship, threatening to tear them apart." - Preview not available | Gary H | Aug 9, 2009 |
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CIA and Mossad paying $1,000 to Christian converts in northern Iraq -
'CIA and Mossad paying $1,000 to Christian converts in northern Iraq'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S |
Gary H | Aug 5, 2009 |
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Explosive Allegations: Blackwater founder on holy mission to murder Muslims -
Explosive Allegations: Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
Posted on August 4, 2009, Printed on August 4, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/ |
Gary H | Aug 4, 2009 |
| Make the date: Sept. 30 www.blasphemyday.com - What is Blasphemy Day? International Blasphemy Day is not just a day. It is a movement to dismantle the wall which exists between religion and criticism. The primary focus of the Blasphemy Day movement and indeed this website is not to debate | Gary H | Aug 2, 2009 |
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take from this tree of knowledge -
You Tube video
Tree of Knowledge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v |
Gary H | Jul 30, 2009 |
| Quote for humanity - "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." -- Desmond Tutu | Gary H | Jul 30, 2009 |
| have you read Emile? - Has anyone here read Emile (On Education) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau What was your impression? Gary the Grouch gary100dm [AT] yahoo.com | Gary H | Jul 26, 2009 |
| What is a free thinker? - IN HIS 1957 ESSAY, "The Value of Free Thought" Bertrand Russell writes: What makes a freethinker is not his beliefs but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he hold | Gary H | Jul 26, 2009 |
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Jimmy Carter - He's giving up religion for women! - To give the human friendly world even a paltry chance, this needs to happen everywhere soon... http://www.theage.com.au/opini |
frish | Jul 24, 2009 |
| interview with Bashardost - Preview not available | Gary H | Jul 23, 2009 |
| Dr. RAMAZAN BASHARDOST. interview tomorrow. Thurs. 8 AM - Preview not available | Gary H | Jul 22, 2009 |
| The last line can be "The Bottom Line". - Preview not available | frish | Jul 20, 2009 |
| Re: Harry Potter actor comes out ... - Why can't Atheism in the last 5-6 billion years produce one cool celebrity? Bill Maher And Daniel Radcliffe c'mon !!!!!! I'll start taking this group seriously when they can give show me | Jeff | Jul 20, 2009 |
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Mother: How do I help my son become a freethinker -
http://www.alternet.org/rights |
Gary H | Jul 20, 2009 |
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Why Fundamentalism is Wrong ... essay -
Why Fundamentalism is Wrong talks about the logical errors of fundamentalist religion, Christian and otherwise...
A hypertext essay by Scott Bidstrup
http://www.bidstrup.com/religi |
Gary H | Jul 18, 2009 |