That was the breathless headline in RT (Russia Today) on October 4. But other news outlets started hyperventilating, as well, in characterizing the decision of the Birmingham employment tribunal of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as anti-religious discrimination.…
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Too Blind to See What Isn’t There
This conversation dates back to January 2014, I think, and it happened on a PM exchange with a recently accepted Facebook friend. Mind you, we had just met. I hope I handled his query respectfully. Or maybe he got more…
December 27: Louis Pasteur
Pasteur believed “the idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite, whether it is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, or Jesus.” This is hardly orthodox Christianity.
December 26: Exorcism
The behaviors of the possessed resemble very closely the behaviors of those with electrochemical, neurochemical or other physical or emotional disorders.
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August 26: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1748)
It was on this date, August 26, 1740, that French paper-maker and chemist Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, was born, one of 16 children of a prosperous paper manufacturer. With his younger brother Jacques-Étienne, the Montgolfier brothers conducted experiments with paper and fabric…
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July 22: Gregor Mendel
Abbot Gregor Mendel was a freethinker who entered a monastery to study science.
June 4: Susan Jacoby (1945)
It was on this date, June 4, 1945, that American writer and independent scholar Susan Jacoby was born. A journalist for the Washington Post and other publications for over 25 years, and author of the Post’s weekly column, “The Spirited…
May 24: Samuel F.B. Morse Thanks God for What Man Hath Wrought (1844)
It was on this date, May 24, 1844, that Samuel F.B. Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought,” which inaugurated long-distance coded communication over the first telegraph line strung from Baltimore, Maryland, to his colleague Alfred Vail and an…
May 12: Florence Nightingale
“I am so glad that my God is not the God of the High Church or of the Low,” said Nightingale. She despised the churches and was an advanced Rationalist.
May 11: Richard P. Feynman
“God was invented to explain mystery,” says Feynman. “Now, when you finally discover how something works, you don’t need him anymore.”
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