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Tag: religion
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Accept: 1.to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal. 2.to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology. 3.to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation. 4.to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept…
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a·the·ism (th–zm) n. 1. Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. 2. The doctrine that there is no God or gods. secularism [ˈsɛkjʊləˌrɪzəm] n 1. (Philosophy) Philosophy a doctrine that rejects religion, esp. in ethics 2. the attitude that religion should have no place in civil affairs 3. the state…
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Religious fundamentalists resist secular educational systems like the public schools and the colleges and universities with good reason. Such seats of higher learning are anathema to the religious dogma that they prefer be instilled within their children. If their children were actually taught how to think as well as learn that there are a myriad…
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“Who Goes There?” is a book written by John W. Campbell, Jr. and copyrighted in 1948. This is basically a story about an alien creature and it’s ship that crash landed in the Antarctic around 20,000 years ago, and the subsequent discovery of it in 1948. Using thermite, the hapless humans managed to destroy the…
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“You don’t believe, we understand that, what reason could you have to keep trying to convince others that what they believe is wrong”, they repeatedly admonish. The reasons are clear. Religion has done great harm. “What about the good that religion does”, they implore. The little good is usually done to spread the meme of…
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It occurs to me that there may have been some confusion surrounding my last blog entitled “Wake Up America”. I have a friend who mistakenly thought that I was painting all of Islam with the same broad brush. Although I was careful to designate the target of my blog as “Radical Islam”, nevertheless, just as…
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Atheists are the most distrusted of all of America’s minorities. When inquiries are made as to why this is so the response is usually that since God is the source of all morality, and since atheists do not believe in God, atheists have no morals. Morals existed before religions. Morals governing behavior were absolutely essential…
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A battle is being waged for the minds of Americans. The battle is between religious fundamentalism and reason. The fate of the United States is not the only concern at stake, the future of the world is being decided. There are two types of Christianity…(actually there are hundreds of differing cults) fundamentalists, adhering to a…
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What kind of a world would we have if a fundamental Theocracy were erected in the United States? Supposing that a fundamentalist Theocrat were elected as president and a majority of fundamentalist Theocrats were elected to both House and Senate what would we become in the United States. (There are now 50 or more in…
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