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Tag Archives: superstition
QAnon and Witchcraft. Hard to tell them apart
Preface. I just read Schiff’s book “The Witches: Salem, 1692”. As I read it, I kept thinking that these Christian witch killers weren’t much different from QAnon believers, who are also mostly Christians (evangelists). I’m not the first to think … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, QAnon, superstition, witchcraft
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Where do we come from, who are we, and where are we going?
Preface. This is a book of review of The Social Conquest of Earth, in which E. O. Wilson answers these questions. Although tribes have invented thousands of creation myths since paleolithic times, Wilson finally has written a book explaining our … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, religion, selection, superstition, Wilson
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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
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Tagged Armageddon, critical thinking, insanity, Rapture, religion, superstition
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