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2010-11-05
November 4: Eden Phillpotts

"Though he remains an agnostic," McCabe write of his personal relationship with Phillpotts, "in recent years he has become milder and more conservative."

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2010-11-05
November 5: JBS Haldane

J.B.S. Haldane (1892) It was on this date, November 5, 1892, that British biochemist and geneticist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born in Scotland. Educated at Eton and Oxford, J.B.S. Haldane was not only broadly knowledgeable in science, but he had a well developed social conscience. This led him to follow Marxism for a time […]

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2010-11-05
November 5: Will Durant

"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even East vs. West," wrote Durant, "it is whether men can bear to live without God."

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2010-11-04
November 4: Egyptian Religion Revealed

The reign of Amenhotep III is generally considered Egypt's Golden Age, yet historians call it an age of heresy. "If I knew where God is," says one inscription, "I would certainly make an offering to him."

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2010-10-29
Halloween: What Really Scares Me

Andrea Yates believed that only by drowning her children could she save them. The film Frailty carries the point to its logically perverse end: if you believe God speaks to you, how can you disobey him?

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2010-10-15
Burn a Koran!

Burning a Koran is pointless. I don’t say it’s wrong or insulting – because feeling wronged or insulted is a choice – it’s just pointless. You can’t change beliefs by charring books.

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2010-08-27
Hate Crimes = Thought Crimes

I think we should be punishing criminal acts, not incorrect thoughts.

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2010-08-20
Death Is Better Than Life?

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 Death Is Better Than Life A […]

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2010-08-20
Death Is Better Than Life

They sounded like they really believed that the dead guy is better off, even happier, never again seeing his relatives, never again tasting food, listening to music, seeing a painting or a picture, holding a grandchild, or even thinking a thought.

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2010-08-13
Ground Zero Mosque?

The building was for sale: if it truly is “hallowed ground,” it’s strange that nobody else cared enough to buy it.

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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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