Main Page - FreeThoughtPedia Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume I: The New Atlantis Have you ever wondered why President Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq and Afghanistan? In his Second Inaugural Address on January 20, 2005, President Bush said that he invaded these two countries because he was attempting to complete an Ancient Plan based on an "Ancient Hope", a Plan called the "New Order of the Ages". How old is this Plan? How far back in history does this Plan go? You will be shocked to discover the answer. Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings unfolds the fascinating history behind the founding of America, and exposes the esoteric underbelly of its design. To find the answer to these questions, we follow the journey of secret societies from England to the New World and learn of their ancient hope: to rebuild the lost empire of Atlantis. In the 16th century, Sir Francis Bacon was at the helm of the secret societies in England. Is it possible that Bacon’s vision guides America today? Purchase this film in High Quality here! Reviews
Republicans turn their back on the Enlightenment Decline of the political species: Charles Darwin and Rick Santorum From today's paper: Over in the US, the Republican party is choosing its presidential nominee to face Barack Obama in November. The Grand Ol’ Party (GOP), as the Republicans are known, has an uncomfortable relationship with scientific fact. It’s not just the candidates. “Is the GOP anti-science?” To some extent, the cause is obvious. But it hasn’t always been like this in the party of Eisenhower and Lincoln. This Nixonian strategy actually changed conservative psychology, according to Mooney. Worse, it’s become a vicious circle. And to appeal to this anti-intellectual base, the Republican elite now have to pretend to be stupider than they are. Do they mean it, or is it pandering to their anti-intellectual base? Perhaps.
50 Atheist Quotes - Born Again Pagan 50 Atheist Quotes George Carlin 1. 2. 3. Frankie Boyle Why are we asked to pray after a disaster? Friedrich Nietzsche 4. 5. 6. Albert Einstein 7. 8. 9. Gandhi 10. 11. Mark Twain 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Thomas Jefferson 17. 18. Benjamin Franklin 19. 20. Voltaire 21. 22. Stephen Hawking 23. 24. Jiddu Krishnamurti 25. 26. Christopher Hitchens 27. 28.If you gave Jerry Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox. Sigmund Freud 29. 29b. Karl Marx 30. MarxGeorge Bernard Shaw 31. Blaise Pascal 32. Richard Jeni 32. Steven Weinberg 34. Delos B. 35. Edward Gibbon 36. Robert Ingersoll 37. Huang Po 38. Benjamin Disraeli 39. Unknown 40. Dave Barry 41. Epicurus 42. Eric Hoffer 43. Bill Maher 44. 45. Baron D’Holbach 46. Bill Hicks 47. Isaac Asimov 48. José Bergamín 49. Arthur C. 50. Overtime quotes: Penn Gillette There is no god, and that’s the simple truth.
Church of the SubGenius Jehovah 1, the primary deity of the Church of the SubGenius The Church of the SubGenius is an American parody and UFO religion that targets established faiths. It teaches a complex belief system that focuses on J. Ivan Stang, who co-founded the Church of the SubGenius in the 1970s, serves as its high profile leader and publicist. Origins[edit] The Church of the SubGenius was founded by Ivan Stang (born Douglas St Clair Smith) and Philo Drummond (born Steve Wilcox) as the SubGenius Foundation. Church leaders maintain that a man named J. Beliefs[edit] Deities[edit] The Church of the SubGenius' ostensible beliefs defy categorization or a simple narrative, often striking outside observers as bizarre and convoluted. Dobbs[edit] SubGenius leaders teach that Dobbs' nature is ineffable and consequently stylize his name with quotation marks. In the Church's mythology, Jehovah 1 had intended for Dobbs to lead a powerful conspiracy and brainwash individuals to make them work for a living. R.
Born believers: How your brain creates God From New Scientist magazine 04 February 2009 by Michael Brooks Read our related editorial:The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief. WHILE many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. This anomaly was documented in the early 1970s, but only now is science beginning to tell us why. Religious ideas are common to all cultures: like language and music, they seem to be part of what it is to be human. The origin of religious belief is something of a mystery, but in recent years scientists have started to make suggestions. The religion-as-an-adaptation theory doesn't wash with everybody, however. An alternative being put forward by Atran and others is that religion emerges as a natural by-product of the way the human mind works. That's not to say that the human brain has a "god module" in the same way that it has a language module that evolved specifically for acquiring language. So how does the brain conjure up gods?
The World Without Forms – GODS & RADICALS I said to a friend, we see the darkness, and some go in. It is the Abyss. We have to find out what is there, to find out if there is meaning. And we see only the abyss. And some go mad. And some never return. Terror often greets the far-off glances on the faces of those who return from the Abyss. Like the ones who ‘walk away from Omelas,’ they did not know to where they were going, only somewhere not-here, not the streets full of opulent wealth and the joyous cries of liberation made possible by a founding horror. It is their own fire, and it is a fire others are right to fear. I am what some might call an Egoist. It is generally easier to list what I reject (for those of you checking-off boxes on mental clipboards) than it is to begin the litany of what I embrace. I will tell you what I do not like. Here, though, I should remind you: “Fascism” means nothing at all. Max Stirner called these ideas ‘spooks.’ Consider the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 in the United States. Like this:
Why Atheists Don't Really Exist Confirmation bias is the tendency to ascribe greater significance to information which supports our pre-existing theories and lesser significance to information which contradicts those theories. We often do this subconsciously. For example you get a new car, and suddenly you notice that type of car on the road with a much greater frequency than you had noticed before. But though confirmation bias generally refers to the inclusion or exclusion of data, there are other ways we can shoehorn the obvious to make it fit within our world view. Last month in The Atlantic, Matthew Hutson wrote a fascinating article titled: “The Science of Superstition: No One Is Immune to Magical Thinking.” Actually as an article it’s really not that fascinating, but as an illustration of the mental contortions one must make to defend atheism, it is Olympic. Skeptics call this patternicity, or projecting pattern where there is none. Fr. When C.S.
The Improbability of God The Improbability of God by Richard Dawkins from Free Inquiry, Volume 18, Number 3. Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Why do people believe in God? So ran Paley's argument, and it is an argument that nearly all thoughtful and sensitive people discover for themselves at some stage in their childhood. What do all objects that look as if they must have had a designer have in common? This is not a circular argument, by the way. Of all the trillions of different ways of putting together the atoms of a telescope, only a minority would actually work in some useful way. We can safely conclude that living bodies are billions of times too complicated -- too statistically improbable -- to have come into being by sheer chance. For instance, it is theoretically possible for an eye to spring into being, in a single lucky step, from nothing: from bare skin, let's say. Eyes and wings cannot spring into existence in a single step. Return to Top