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Category Archives: Human Nature
Fantasyland 8. Religion the main factor in America’s descent into the darkness of superstition
[ This is the 8th of nine posts about Fantasyland. Andersen believes all of the madness and superstition in America originally springs from our history of religiosity. The scariest part of the insanity is that there are Christians trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking, Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy, Human Nature, Religion
Tagged Armageddon, critical thinking, insanity, Rapture, religion, superstition
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Fantasyland 7. How America became the world’s biggest theme park
Preface. This is the 7th of 9 posts about Fantasyland. Some theme park quotes: One of America’s first theme parks was created in 1894, Black America, with 500 pretend slaves advertised as “Fun for the Darkies” and the “Fun-Loving … Continue reading
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Fantasyland 6. New Age, alternative medicine, and supernatural madness
Preface. This is the sixth of nine posts about this very important book on how and why a large percent of Americans have has been irrational for 500 years. New Age and supernatural beliefs are the religion of people who … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative medicine, critical thinking, New Age, religion, supernatural
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Fantasyland 5. Why Americans are so prone to believing in conspiracies
Preface. This is the fifth of nine posts about this very important book on how and why a large percent of Americans have has been irrational for 500 years. Links to the 9 parts of this book review: 1 2 … Continue reading
Fantasyland 4. American churches go from crazy to insane and unhinged: 1800 to present
Preface. This is the fifth of nine posts about Fantasyland. This is a very important book on how and why a large percent of Americans have has been irrational for 500 years. Evangelism threatens to create a non-democratic, authoritarian government, … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, history of irrational christianity, religion
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Republican party platform: the most extreme ever
Preface. There are two articles below: the New York Times editorial on the 2016 Republican platform (they call Republicans Extremists too), followed by the 50 platform policies. Basically, the GOP 2016 platform would make Christianity the official American religion, replace … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Extremists, platform, Republican
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Fantasyland 3. History of increasing craziness of U.S. religion from 1517 to 1800
Preface. In another post about critical thinking, “What percent of Americans are rational?”, I list the results of 10 polls about what Americans believe. Here are the questions about Christianity. When there’s more than one figure, they’re from different polls: … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, religion
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Fantasyland Part 2. How America Went Haywire. A 500-Year History.
Preface. This is the second of nine parts about the book “”Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. A 500-Year History”, mostly the introduction. Links to the 9 parts of this book review: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Continue reading
Fantasyland Part 1. How America Went Haywire. A 500-Year History.
Preface. This a review of the “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. A 500-Year History”. If you want to understand what’s wrong with America, and be highly entertained at the same time, this is the book for you, one of my … Continue reading
Republicans Brains are wired to deny science & reality
Preface. This is my book review of Chris Mooney’s 2012 “The Republican Brain. The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality”. This is a mishmash of a review of this book, way below other articles about this topic as well … Continue reading