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Tag Archives: religion
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
Booklist: Travel, Psychology, World history, Food, Anthropology, (Auto)biography, Cults, Religion
More booklists Travel & Science A Wulf. The Invention of Nature: The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science. R Conniff. The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth R Sapolsky. A … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, autobiography, biography, cults, energy, food, psychology, religion, travel, world history
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The phony in American politics: how voters turn into suckers
[ This article skewers many politicians, but my favorite part is what I’ve excerpted below, about one of the first political candidates in the 1930s who ran as a Christian to snag those voters for the big money interests, Texas’s richest oilmen … Continue reading
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Tagged politics, religion
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E. O. Wilson to save humanity from extinction, get rid of religion
[ Below is an excerpt, out of order, from New Scientist’s 21 Jan 2015 interview with E.O. Wilson “Religious faith is dragging us down“. The extinctions we cause will kill us too, says the sociobiology pioneer – the best thing … Continue reading
Birth Control Impossible due to Religion, they prefer you die of starvation, disease, and war
What a horror: so-called “Pro-Life” religions force their nasty beliefs on a woman’s right to control her own destiny and a civilizations ability to decently house and feed citizens, dooming societies of the future crazed from hunger and disease brought … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, What to do
Tagged birth control, collapse, disease, hunger, pro-life, religion, starvation, war, women's right to choose
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