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The Truth about Slavery
Molyneux nails slavery to the wall in your lecture this week.
History & Atheism, Revisited
Via The Delusional Atheist: Atheist historian Tim O’Neill on his fellow atheists and historical illiteracy: “We atheists and freethinkers regularly deride believers for their irrational thinking, lack of critical analysis and tendency to cling to ideas out of faith even when confronted by contrary evidence. Unfortunately, it’s a lot easier to talk about being rational,…
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Wiki Wednesday – My American Guy
The other day, I saw Lysander Spooner referred to as a founder of libertarianism in America. Though it isn’t true, it is complimentary of a guy who is on my two favorite shirts and regularly featured in Links above. Who was he? Americans should know the abolitionist, post-office-startin’, non-violent, practicing deist: Lysander Spooner (January 19,…
DetailsScience & the Catholic Church
James Hannam gives your lecture this week, rebutting the common notions that the Catholic Church is or has been (the Middle Ages, for example) somehow anti-science. Let’s let this myth die forever, shall we?
Misunderstood History
Another nail in the coffin of the horse that has been beaten to death to be swept into the dustbin of history, or whatever… In response to the question “What is the most misunderstood historical event?” atheist Tim O’Neill shows what most non-fundamentalist atheists and anti-Catholics always knew – the Galileo episode wasn’t as it…
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