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2011-01-09
January 9: Simone de Beauvoir (1908)

"I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe," De Beauvoir said.

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2011-01-09
January 9: Simone de Beauvoir

"I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe," De Beauvoir said.

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2011-01-09
January 9: Gypsy Rose Lee (1911)

"Praying is like a rocking chair — it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."

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2011-01-09
January 9: Gypsy Rose Lee

"Praying is like a rocking chair — it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."

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2011-01-09
Rant: Calendars

Most calendars made in the US use five lines for dates. Most months run 30-31 days. That works fine when the month begins on a Sunday through Thursday. But when a month begins on a Friday or a Saturday, as this month does, American calendars do something that I can only describe as brain-dead: they […]

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2011-01-09
January 9: Dave Matthews (1967)

"It would be safe to say that I'm agnostic." Matthews says. "I think it's very ignorant to say, 'Well, for everything, God has a plan.'"

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2011-01-08
January 8: The Last Execution for Blasphemy?

We do not know if god-belief or the Trinity would have long survived the assaults of Thomas Aikenhead, so we can be sure it is a good thing that we have priests with no other useful function than to protect us.

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2011-01-08
January 8: Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen

“As my ancestors are free from slavery,” McQueen said, “I am free from the slavery of religion.”

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2011-01-06
January 6: Joan of Arc

Since those who believed Joan a witch and those who believed her a messenger of God subscribed to the same superstitions, it is of little consequence whose side is right.

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2011-01-05
January 5: Felix Manz Executed by Baptism

Anabaptists were semi-Rationalistic, which is always heretical. Manz's death made him the first Protestant in history to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants.

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August 20: H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft (1890) It was on this date, August 20, 1890, that American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who wrote as H.P. Lovecraft, was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Fatherless from the age of three, Lovecraft was reared by his mother and grandparents, and it was his grandmother who held him spellbound with weird tales that […]



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