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January 7: Heidi Fleiss, Religion and Prostitution

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Prostitution, the crime underlying the crime for which Heidi Fleiss was jailed, has been present in every culture and every period of history.

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Posted in Entertainer, History, Religion, Theology, Uncategorized

December 25: Christmas Day

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Mithra — like Tammuz, Adonis, Apollo and Horus — was a sun-god. So you see, the “reason for the season” is not the son of any god, but the sun up in the sky!

Tagged with: Adonis, Apollo, birth of Mithra, Birthday of the Unconquered Sun, Catholic Encyclopedia, Dickens, Horus, Isis, Koreion, Macrobius, Origen, Pagan Origins of Christmas Day, Saturnalia, Solstice, St. Jerome, Tammuz, Theodosius
Posted in History, Religion, Theology

October 15: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917) It was on this date, October 15, 1917, that American historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. was born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger in Columbus, Ohio. The son of a prominent American historian of the same name (and…

Tagged with: 2000 Years of Disbelief, Age of Jackson, Age of Roosevelt, Brown University, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, James A. Haught, John F. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize, Religion of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr, Thousand Days
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Writer

October 5: John Addington Symonds

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

John Addington Symonds (1840) It was on this date, October 5, 1840, that British writer John Addington Symonds was born in Bristol. He was educated at Oxford and married Janet Catherine North (sister of botanical artist Marianne North), on 10…

Tagged with: Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Horatio F. Brown, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Religion of John Addington Symonds, Short History of the Renaissance in Italy, Studies of the Greek Poets
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Writer

September 25: A Secular Bill of Rights

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Bill of Rights Passed by the U.S. Congress (1789) It was on this date, September 25, 1789, that the U.S. Congress passed and sent for ratification the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which came to be known as the…

Tagged with: Constitution, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Free Exercise Clause, free speech, freedom from religion, freedom of religion, Religion in the US Bill of Rights
Posted in History, Law, Social Reformer

September 16: Tomás de Torquemada

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Tomás de Torquemada (d. 1498) It was on this date, September 16, 1498, that the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Tomás de Torquemada, died in Ávila. Born on a date uncertain in 1420 in what is now Valladolid, Torquemada was a…

Tagged with: auto-da-fe, Catholic Encyclopedia, conversos, Dominican, Grand Inquisitor, King Ferdinand, LaGuardia trial, Queen Isabella, Religion and Tomas de Torquemada, Sixtus IV, Spain, Spanish Inquisition
Posted in History, Religion, Theology

September 11: A Faith-Based Initiative

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

September 11 (2001) It was on this date, September 11, 2001, that four US planes were hijacked, turned in flight, and crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, into the west wall of the…

Tagged with: 9/11, Afghanistan, fanaticism, fundamentalism, Great Satan, Islam, Koran, Muslim, Osama bin Laden, Pentagon, Qu'ran, rationalism, Religion and September 11, secularism, terrorism, Usama, World Trade Center
Posted in History, Rant, Religion

September 5: Religion and Terror

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

The Reign of Terror (1793) and the Churches It was on this date, September 5, 1793, that an 11-month Reign of Terror began in France. Sometimes called the Red Terror, to distinguish it from the equally brutal but little-mentioned White…

Tagged with: Albigensian Massacre, Committee of Public Safety, Cult of the Supreme Being, feudalism, French Revolution, Georges Danton, Girondists, Maximilian Robespierre, Montagnards, Red Terror, Reign of Terror, St. Bartholomew Massacre, White Terror
Posted in History, Religion, Social Reformer, Theology

August 8: Eating God

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Ronald Bruce Meyer — Leave a comment

Quam singulari (1910): Christian Communion It was on this date, August 8, 1910, that “Quam singulari,” a decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments, specified the age at which children are to be admitted to first Communion in the…

Tagged with: age of discretion, Aztec, Catholic Encyclopedia, Dionysos, eating God, Eucharist, first communion, Golden Bough, Huitzlipochtli, Isis, James George Fraser, living Body and Blood of Christ, Mexico, Mithra, Osiris, Paul von Hoensbroech, Quam singulari, reasoning powers, Roman Catholic Church, Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments
Posted in History, Religion, Theology

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