Catholics were compelled to accept as genuine history the childish and derivative stories of the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the Flood, and the confusion of languages at Babel.
Monthly Archive: June 2011
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Jun 29
June 29: Forging the Papacy
Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul Foundation of the Papacy It is on this day, June 29, that the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul. According to tradition outside the church, and required by faith within the church, during the reign of Emperor Nero, Peter was arrested and executed …
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Jun 29
June 29: Was Peter Martyred at Rome?
Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul Was Peter at Rome? It is on this day, June 29, that the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of Sts. Peter and Paul. According to tradition outside the church, and required by faith within the church, during the reign of Emperor Nero, Peter was arrested and executed …
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Jun 28
June 28: Pierre Paul Broca (1824)
Broca has been described as a Christian, but he must have practiced it lightly, because he founded a society for free-thinkers in 1848.
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Jun 28
June 28: Luigi Pirandello
“God is too absent from his work, and there is no trace of the wonderful balm of mysticism.”
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Jun 28
June 28: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The Supreme Being is best displayed by the fixed and unalterable order of nature.” Rousseau was expelled from Geneva for “irreligion.”
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Jun 27
June 27: Augustus de Morgan
Augustus de Morgan was a Theist with an ethical appreciation of Christianity. He described himself as an “unattached Christian,” and refused to join even the Unitarian Church.
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Jun 27
June 27: Lafcadio Hearn
1977) “He passionately believed that Buddhism promoted a far better attitude toward daily life than did Christianity.”
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Jun 26
June 26: Adolf Bastian (1826)
“We no longer fear when a mighty foe [science] shakes our protector [God] from his heaven, to sink with him into an abyss of annihilation.”
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Jun 26
June 26: Pearl S. Buck
“I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.”
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