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2011-05-09
May 9: Churches v. Birth Control

That "artificial" stuff humans created to make life longer and better for women and men is all that stands against devastation by overpopulation.

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2011-05-08
May 8: Edward Gibbon

“The establishment of a new religion, whose ministers superceded the exercise of reason,” Gibbon wrote, supplanted Athenian wisdom and, “resolved every question by an article of faith, and condemned the infidel or skeptic to eternal flames."

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2011-05-06
At What Cost?

The following is a commentary in an ongoing series of “Reflections” by John Mill. John Mill is the radio persona of Ronald Bruce Meyer and can be heard on “American Heathen.” “The American Heathen” Internet radio broadcast is aired, live, on Friday nights from 7:00pm-10:00pm Central time on ShockNetRadio.com At What Cost? A Reflection by […]

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2011-05-06
May 6: Sigmund Freud

"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever."

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2011-05-05
May 5: John William Draper

“Faith is in its nature unchangeable, stationary; Science is in its nature progressive; and eventually a divergence between them must take place.”

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2011-05-05
May 5: Karl Marx

"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand of their actual happiness."

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2011-05-03
The death of Osama bin Laden

May 2, 2011 saw the headline "Osama bin Laden dead" all over the net and newspapers. The operation was successfully carried out by U.S. Navy SEALs, with intelligence support from the Central Intelligence Agency. After positive identification, and within 24 hours of his death, bin Laden's body was taken out to sea for burial. From […]

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2011-05-03
May 3: Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469) It was on this date, May 3, 1469, that Niccolò Machiavelli was born Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli in Florence, in what is now Italy. Florence had been ruled by the powerful Medici family since 1434, and was constantly at war with its neighboring city-states when not fending off outside aggressors. But […]

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2011-05-02
May 2: Catherine the Great

Catharine said, "The people are not created for us, but we for the people" and "I am one of the imbeciles who believe in God."

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2011-05-01
May 1: Christian Persecutions

It is only good fortune that those with Bibles and weapons, or with Korans and weapons, for that matter, were so anti-science: imagine what a human holocaust they could have perpetrated!

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