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  • Introduction To Religion
    ... for such a society expanded into a job for an entire clerical cast. While history shows instances of worldly governments and the clergy working at cross-purp
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  • The God Who Wasn't There
    From exposing the hidden history of Christianity to lampooning the bloody excesses of Mel Gibson's The Passi
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  • George W. Bush
    26. And we base it, our history, and our decision making, our future, on solid values. The first value is, ...in this generation of our military -- have taken up the highest calling of history. You're defending your country, and protecting the innocent from harm. And
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  • Famous atheists
    ...been an outlook evolved from its time, growing from a particular period of history of absolutes and certainties. Everything shifted for devoutly held faith wh ...1923): French stage actress referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world". She was asked by French [[composer]] [[Charles Gounod]] if s
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  • Rook Hawkins
    ...tinely ignoring my other classes with perhaps the exception of science and history—two of my favorite courses. Because of my poor grades in other classes, ...people ask me about how I came to atheism, and how I learned so much about history and Christianity. Well, I never really had a venue at telling my story lik
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  • How to create and edit pages
    ...uld '''not''' sign edits you make to regular articles. In [[Wikipedia:Page history|page histories]], the [[MediaWiki]] software keeps track of which user make ...nited States History]] will redirect to the [[United States]] page, to the History section if it exists.
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  • Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    .... Sternberg lost his job at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History because of intellectual discrimination but neglects to inform us that he wa ...und America itself. There simply cannot be any history other than American history, he insists.
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  • Logical Fallacies by Todangst
    ...Isn't history based upon faith? If so, then isn't the Bible also a form of history?"
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  • The So Called "Problem" Of Induction
    ==History of Inductive Logic== ...man beings have used intuitive forms of inductive reasoning all throughout history, probably theory was first formalized in 1654 by the mathematicians Pascal
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  • The New Testament
    ...hat he has done quite an exemplary job on his article, so I will leave the history of the canon's formation itself quite brief, and suggest that aside from th == History of the Formation of the New Testament ==
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  • Scripture
    * [[General Classical History]]
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  • Asatru
    ==History==
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  • Religion Humor
    3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some ...n many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
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  • The hypocrisy of a Christian
    3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some ...n many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
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  • Humanism
    ... belief systems. And whenever there was conflict and suffering throughout history, a pattern of abandonment of humanistic ideals is always present, but not a
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  • Top Ten Myths About Atheism
    ...ine and you're likely to find that they know more about scripture, ancient history and philosophy than most theists. This is one reason why they are atheist:
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  • Prophecy of Tyre
    == What Secular History Has To Say About Tyre==
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  • Example argument page
    ...ay are being questioned and proven wrong by new discoveries in science and history. It's a matter of accepting reality. Will you accept the truth and become a
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  • Gallery of Historical Images
    Image:Catholic history.jpg
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  • Lucy
    ...emporaries with the australopithecines throughout all of australopithecine history.
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  • Missing missing links
    ...when you take the Bible as your basis and build your models of science and history upon it, all the evidence from the living animals and plants, the fossils a
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  • Top 10 atheist conversation killers
    ...literature at best — ancient literature mixed with a bit of mythologized history. For atheists, quoting passages from the Bible proves nothing about any god
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  • 20 Reasons to abandon Christianity
    ...nore the bulk of Christian teachings, not to mention the bulk of Christian history. Throughout almost its entire time on Earth, the motor driving Christianity ...is assault on free speech was part and parcel of Christianity’s shameful history of attempting to suppress "indecent" and "subversive" materials (and to thr
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  • Quotes
    ...nsistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. -- Thomas P ...ght of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of
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  • Free will
    :The idea tackles one of history's great philosophical debates, and Bjoern Brembs of the Berlin Free Univers
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  • Religious Scandals
    ...s roaming India go back at least as far as the 13th century, but to modern history their story usually begins with the entrance of the British Empire in the e ===Mormon church used church discipline records and criminal history of a rape victim to smear her, as well as releasing her name to the media.=
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  • America is a Christian nation
    ...on and still give civil and religious rights to all? We have 200 years of history by way of answer. We have been a Christian nation AND other religions have ... law against two people of the same gender marrying, do not understand our history or the meaning of liberty. What they are calling for is anarchy. They wan
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  • One Nation Under God
    == History and Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance == ... proof that the point of the bill was to promote religion. The legislative history of the 1954 act stated that the hope was to "acknowledge the dependence of
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  • Was the United States founded on Christianity?
    ... Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.... Nothing, however, in the history of Christianity or Judaism before ite bears any resemblance to a representa
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  • America is not a Christian nation
    ... intolerance and bloodshed, wisely '''establishing the first government in history to separate church and state'''. ...orities and unbelievers, gay and lesbian rights, and civil rights for all. History shows us that only harm comes of uniting church and state.
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  • Abortion and the Bible
    ...y. That would make a deity in charge of nature the greatest abortionist in history!
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  • The ten commandments
    ...at encourage the bible believer to hate and to kill, biblical lessons that history proves Christians have taken most seriously. Nonetheless the bible defendan
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  • Our godless Constitution
    ...ired by the Senate, ''it was only the third unanimous vote in the Senate's history''. '''There is no record of debate or dissent.''' The text of the treaty wa ...ous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness" of the Old Testament, "''a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.''" The [[N
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  • Why are atheists so angry?
    To answer that question, I'll recall some more history. In Mosaic law, as we all know, women were slightly better than slaves. The ... The reason women have it better now is that people were angry all through history, and made small gains here and there over many generations. Without the fue
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  • Deconversion stories
    ... he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his in
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  • Ispeakmetal's deconversion
    ... other sacred text I studied. A mixture of myth, moral teachings, cultural history, and fraud.
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  • Engaging Creationists
    ...an uneducated, layperson, religious figure over the nature of space, time, history, biology, chemistry, genetics, archeology and evolution. Like watching a s
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  • Religious Wars
    ... than for any other reason. To cite a few examples, just think about Irish history, the Middle East, the Crusades, the Inquisition, our own abortion-doctor ki ...icle,337,Atheism-not-religion-is-the-real-force-behind-the-mass-murders-of-history,The-Christian-Science-Monitor</ref>. However 2 Chronicles 13 for example sa
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  • Why I Am Not A Christian
    ...matter of virtue Christ stands quite as high as some other people known to history. I think I should put Buddha and Socrates above Him in those respects.
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  • Jesus and Mithra
    ...n the bowels of the earth. They both '''placed a flood at the beginning of history'''; they both assigned as the source of their condition, a primitive revela ...e Persians called Mithras ... His residence is in the sun" (Ecclesiastical History, 3rd century, Part 2, ch. 5).
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  • I was the biggest skeptic in the world
    ...o determine when the Bible was actually written. Thus, a study of biblical history, various translations, and archaeology was necessary. The Dead Sea Scrolls, THE TRIBULATION is the worst time in history since man has been on the earth. Immediately following the Rapture, the man
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  • The Improbability of God
    ...ut live animals' throats in his name. The achievements of religion in past history -- bloody crusades, torturing inquisitions, mass-murdering conquistadors, c ..., as the result of one of the most astonishing intellectual revolutions in history, we now know that it is wrong, or at least superfluous. We now know that th
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  • Thomas Jefferson letter to Peter Carr
    ...ish America, will render that language a valuable acquisition. The ancient history of that part of America, too, is written in that language. I send you a dic ... the law of probabilities? You will next read the New Testament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. '''Keep in your eye the opposite pretensions''
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  • Fallon's deconversion
    ... the need to ask you. I must first set the background up and give a little history of myself in relation to it. I believe I may have told you once that I was
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  • Douglas Adams
    ...s talking nonsense, what I mean is this. In the years I’d spent learning History, Physics, Latin, Math, I’d learnt (the hard way) something about standard Well, in history, even though the understanding of events, of cause and effect, is a matter
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  • Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial
    ...on is one of the best-tested and most thoroughly confirmed theories in the history of science, and that its unresolved questions are normal research problems
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  • God does exist
    There is a much larger issue. Throughout history, billions of people in the world have attested to their firm, core convicti
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  • Judgement Day - Intelligent Design on Trial transcript
    ... this in other classes? Presenting pseudo science or pseudo math or pseudo history in promotion of one particular religious view. It's wrong. ...volution as the process of change over time that characterizes the natural history of life on this planet.
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  • Was Stalin an atheist?
    The above poem is probably a reference to Socrates who history says was made to drink poison from a cup because he "introduced a foreign g
    8 KB (1,177 words) - 04:35, 29 November 2011
  • Old testament laws
    ==Christian fundamentalism and the history of old testament laws== ...s for human slavery, quoted from Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History
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  • Ron Paul
    ... I also have religious beliefs that say there is more in the world and its history than science can ever know. I choose my religious beliefs as a source of tr ...ions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality a
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  • Was Behemoth a Dinosaur?
    ...(i.e. those who commissioned the translation in question) had a documented history of violence in the name of preserving their notion of "morality."
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  • The Sacrifice of Reason
    ...sed of in the same ritual. African tribes too numerous to name have a long history of murdering people to send as couriers in a one-way dialogue with their an And it is astride this contemptible history of religious atrocity and scientific ignorance that Christianity now stands
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  • Laws and other rules against atheists and agnostics
    ...e leader of the movement for anti-blasphemy UN legislation. But Pakistan's history on free speech is less than clear.
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  • John Hagee
    ...ny day now, Jesus will return has always been a recurring theme throughout history among Christians. ...We are living in the last days. These are the most exciting days in church history,” but then went on to add, “We are facing now [the] most dangerous mome
    29 KB (4,759 words) - 15:58, 25 April 2011
  • Cafeterian
    ...it convenient that this [[Cafeterian]] has condensed the entire nature and history of Christianity into this simple sentence. It's up to us to trust him that
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  • Rook Hawkins' deconversion
    ...tinely ignoring my other classes with perhaps the exception of science and history—two of my favorite courses. Because of my poor grades in other classes, ...people ask me about how I came to atheism, and how I learned so much about history and Christianity. Well, I never really had a venue at telling my story lik
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  • Top ten arguments for the existence of God
    ... as slavery, that we now recognize were unreasonable and unacceptable. If history has taught us anything, it's that just because a large group of people beli
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  • Why atheism?
    ==History and Development of Science and Scientific Naturalism== ...s about a billion years after that, as shown by the evidence for Earth’s history in its rocks and fossils. For about two and a half billion years, life con
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  • Dear believer
    ...name of a god than for any other reason. The Church has a shameful, bloody history of Crusades, Inquisitions, witch-burnings, heresy trials, American colonial
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  • Scientology testimonials
    ...kind's problems, and during this narrow window of opportunity in mankind's history it is possible to "clear the planet" (ie give everybody auditing) and save
    11 KB (1,857 words) - 00:55, 19 April 2008
  • Blowback
    ...ement in Afghanistan was 'the largest and most successful CIA operation in history,' 'the one morally unambiguous crusade of our time,' and that 'there was no ... America's enemies were at one time its allies, and many people throughout history we have fought against are using weapons against us that we provided them.
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  • Charles Darwin
    ...mind in literature that rejected the concept of divine judgment in earth's history, Charles mused, Darwin's biographer, Dr James Moore, lecturer in the history of science and technology at The Open University in the UK, has spent 20 ye
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  • Funny theist quotes
    ... in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.
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  • Scientology
    ...been motivated by interest groups and that most of the controversy is past history.
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  • Bible reviews
    ... interest, has noble poetry in it, some clever fables, some blood drenched history, some good morals, a wealth of obscenity and upwards of a thousand lies'.
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  • Young earth creationism
    ...the Bible as a historically accurate, factually inerrant record of natural history. Young Earth creationists believe that [[Adam and Eve]] were the universal
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  • Magic
    Throughout history, people have believed in "magic": the notion that some supernatural force i
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  • Intelligent Design
    ...m in the Rose Center For Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. In this presentation entitled "Intelligent Design" Tyson addresses the ide
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  • Essential reading
    ...e? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wi ...e superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history...
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  • Freezer
    But so what? If the gospel writers were inaccurate in the history they wrote, or wrote with a deliberate bias, all the copies in the world ar ...entary on the Gnostic Gospels from the Nag Hammadi library, said it best: "History is written by the victors - their way!" Clearly she understood that the can
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  • Grant R. Jeffrey
    * Jeffrey has a long history of writing books about scripture that are misleading and erroneous. His bo
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  • Stupid design
    ...m in the Rose Center For Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. In this Powerpoint entitled "Stupid Design" Tyson points out some of the g
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  • Religion makes people crazy
    ...themselves on the whole world, by any means expedient. Muhammad's recorded history and sayings reinforce that command. Islamic militants believe that God and
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  • The atheist delusion
    ...in general is a poison that has fuelled violence and oppression throughout history, right up to the present day. The urgency with which they produce their ant ...inking would wither way, along with the religions of the past. Despite the history of the past century, Dennett believes much the same. In an interview that a
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  • Bible trivia
    ...anguage that is now lost, and can be seen in Bulgaria's National Museum of History in Sofia. The rarity consists of 6 pages made of 24-carat gold and fastened
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  • An atheist's call to arms
    ... the audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public the
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  • Top ten signs you're a fundamentalist christian
    [[Image:History of religion.jpg|right]] 3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some
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  • Arguments Against Existence Of God
    ...e by being the most violent. Not the most reasonable, therefore, religious history constitutes evidence for atheism and against theism.
    15 KB (2,608 words) - 21:41, 19 December 2010
  • The value of religion
    ... religions causing wars and a great amount of destruction throughout human history. People can easily set aside a very worthwhile moral code which may have le
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  • Recommended books
    ...t's an excellent synopsis of each book of the Bible as well as its overall history and authorship. Very readable and concise - highly recommended for anyone l * {{az|0964487349|The Dark Side of Christian History}} by Hellen Ellerbe
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  • Atheism FAQ
    ...earth and the universe for us. We are special. However, when you examine history, it becomes obvious that man's presence on this planet amounts to a "blink- ===How can you lack belief in God when every society in human history has believed in a creator?===
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  • The Case For Christ
    ...d easily dupe the average reader is unfamiliar with ancient literature and history. Perusing the footnotes, one sees that many of the author's sources are boo
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  • Mormons
    ... is just a fantasy written before we knew much about the Native Americans' history. Watered-down version found in the Official History of the Church:
    19 KB (3,039 words) - 02:56, 26 December 2013
  • Main Page (alt)
    * [[Scripture]] - FTP's overview of scripture and history, edited by historian, [[Rook Hawkins]]
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  • Secular charities
    :Comprehensive resource for positive atheists to learn about atheism, history, philosophy, religious freedom, and responsibility.
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  • Scientific method
    ... Great Idea was the scientific method, and he was the only crackpot in all history to claim that level of benefit to humanity and turn out to be completely ri
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  • Joseph Smith
    ...hese parties are right; or, are they all wrong together?<ref>Joseph Smith--History 1:10</ref> ...th, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.<ref>Joseph Smith--History 1:5</ref>
    8 KB (1,397 words) - 21:40, 9 January 2009
  • How to piss off an atheist
    211) Fail to have a basic grasp of history. (Spanish Inquisition? What's that?)
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  • The Secret
    ...hus, the "secret" of this supernatural force is a key component throughout history, not made available to the public until now -- provided you buy the author' ...cret, shrouded in mystery, repressed, hidden, revered by the best minds of history. Finally available and delivered by this coalition of the brilliant and the
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  • Jefferson Bible
    The big question now, said Lori Anne Ferrell, a professor of early modern history and literature at Claremont Graduate University, is this:
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  • Scientists and atheism
    Department of History, University of Georgia,
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  • Mountain meadows massacre
    ...nds as one of the four largest mass killings of civilians in United States history), many other Mormons ordered, planned, or participated in the massacre of w ...seless loss of life--can only be understood in the context of the colorful history of the most important American-grown religion, Mormonism. Today, Mormonism
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  • Catholics destroyed the mayan language
    ...ot for murder, not for torture, and not for destroying an entire culture's history. No, none of these things were worthy of the Church's sanctions. Diego de L
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  • Diego de Landa
    ... civilization, and his actions which destroyed much of that civilization's history, literature, and traditions. He is a major figure in the so-called "Black
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  • Chiropractice
    ===History=== ...ubluxations and that the grant application was the first in chiropractic's history<ref>International Chiropractic Association. International Review of Chiropr
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  • Pagan holidays
    This turn in the seasons has been celebrated by cultures throughout history who held festivals for their gods and goddesses at this time of year. Aphro
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  • Socrates vs Jesus
    ...un-contested evidence that Jesus of Nazareth was actually a real person in history<ref name="Silence">[[A Silence That Screams]]</ref>, will say, "Well what e It is a fact that most of the presumptive facts of history do not get questioned the way Christianity's claims about its origins get q
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  • Dan Silverman's deconversion
    ...nymously. I found a Baptist forum on the Internet and posted a brief of my history and some of my doubts. What occurred surprised me. I was attacked! Some of
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  • Mark Twain
    The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of th
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