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America’s Largest Cult: 64% of Evangelicals Hold to the Young Earth Creationist Belief That “God created humans pretty much in their present form at one time in the last 10,000 years or so.”
Physicist Karl Giberson, a former evangelical who now identifies as a mainline Protestant, has written an admirably clear-headed essay for The Daily Beast on contemporary evangelicalism’s fraught relationship with the theory of evolution. Here he is summarizing scientific illiteracy in … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, cults, Darwin, evangelicals, evolution, God, Jesus, science
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North Korea Mass Cult Watch: Weeping and Bowing Before the Golden Jackass
Below, North Koreans react to news of Kim Jong-il’s death. My first thought on seeing this was the Christian notion of Judgment Day (with Jesus, not Kim Jong-il, inhabiting the Big Brother space). Every knee shall bow and every tongue … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, cultism, cults, Jesus, kim jong-il, north korea, religion
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Harold Camping’s Apocalypse Fail Watch: To Be Rapture Ready, Adrienne Martinez Gave up on Medical School!
Concerning radio evangelist Harold Camping’s apocalypse prediction fiasco, the Christian Post this afternoon reports on a specimen of the human wreckage. Here’s what the past year has been like for the Martinez family (after Adrienne and Joel came under the spell of the May 21, 2011 rapture … Continue reading
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Tagged cults, fraud, Harold Camping, hysteria, Jesus, John Macarthur, prophecy, prophecy fail, rapture ready, religion, Revelation, strange
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Max Keiser on the “Blind Cult of America”
Max Keiser’s money program is uneven in quality and alarmist catnip for gold bugs, but this recent episode is mildly entertaining (though I don’t like his anti-intellectual populist posturing against Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman). Max Keiser presents himself as a truth-teller bravely … Continue reading
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Tagged America, cults, depression 2.0, economics, gold, max keiser, money, Paul Krugman, social psychology, the economy
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“Jews Look Like Monkeys and Pigs”: Medieval Cultism and Antisemitism in British Islamic Schools
Out of 30,000 schools in Great Britain, 160 are Muslim faith schools. Below is a deeply troubling BBC report on what some of these schools are teaching: So this is what happens when you set out to live a segregated and parallel … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, atheism, cults, England, fundamentalism, Islam, medievalism, Muslims, women's rights
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Apocalypse Now?: North Korea, a nuclear power, threatens full-scale war with South Korea
And this chilling sentence appeared in the New York Times story on the crisis: The motivations, health and even state of mind of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, remained cloaked in mystery. Got it? We don’t know whether, exactly, Kim … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Communism, cults, foreign policy, Jim Jones, kim jong-il, korea, north korea, oh shit, Politics, south korea, totalitarianism
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David Frum’s Wife on the American Conservative Movement: “I’ve never seen such a hostile environment towards free thought and debate”
Danielle Crittenden, the wife of conservative David Frum, sees a serious narrowing of the intellectual range of opinion that you can safely express within contemporary American conservatism (and still remain in the fold): We have both been part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, conservatism, cults, David Frum, glenn beck, Jesus, Red State, religion, rush limbaugh, social psychology, tea partiers, tea party
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Dear Leader Megalomania
I like these two: . And this one: . More from MightyGodKing (MGK) here. And still more Dear Leader totalitarianism and megalomania (but of the Christian fundamentalist variety) here.
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Tagged chick tracts, Christian fundamentalism, comedy, Communism, cult of personality, cults, fundamentalism, humor, korea, north korea, south korea, totalitarianism
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News from the Back of the Atheist Bus: Richard Dawkins and Josh Timonen Put Their Fellow Atheists and Agnostics in Their Proper Place
Disgruntled Peter Harrison, a (former) forum moderator at RichardDawkins.net, dishes on a behind the scenes controversy between the site’s support volunteers and Josh Timonen, the site’s manager. Peter Harrison now wants people to join him at a different (and presumably more open) … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, atheist bus, cults, God, jerry coyne, josh timonen, peter harrison, Richard Dawkins, science
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Laura Miller Reviews Rebecca Goldstein’s anti-Harold Bloom Novel “36 Arguments for the Existence of God”
In Rebecca Goldstein’s recently released novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Yale’s famous literary behemoth, Harold Bloom, apparently takes some bruising hits. Here’s Laura Miller on this aspect of the novel: Obsessed with “genius” (and his own supreme authority in the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Camille Paglia, cults, English, God, Harold Bloom, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion, science
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Poet Kate Gale Reflecting on Philip Garrido
Just when I think I’m getting warm and fuzzy towards religion, I encounter testimony like this. Poet Kate Gale grew up in a cult, and the whole creepy Philip Garrido incident gave her a bit of deja vu : It … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, authoritarianism, Christianity, cults, kate gale, philip garrido, poetry, religion, women's rights
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Atheism is Dead?
There will always be atheists in the world—so I’m not talking about a demographic trend. I don’t know where atheism is heading with the masses. For all I know, it may be growing faster than any other idea in the world. Go team! … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Christianity, cults, death, hippies, religon, terence mckenna, urizen, William Blake
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Blogging UFOs: Schisms! And My Discovery of Jeremy Vaeni!
In my ongoing quest, the past few weeks, to discover what I think of UFOs and the UFO-believing community, I purchased a copy of UFO Magazine (Issue #150) at my local Barnes & Noble and found something that surprised me. There … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Christianity, cults, eschatology, exopolitics, fringe movements, jeremy vaeni, pop culture, ufo, ufo magazine, UFOs
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Thinking about UFOs
Do you think that there is any possibility that those who claim to have seen UFOs are actually encountering, well, you know, actual alien spacecraft that have come from another solar system? I know that sounds absolutely crazy to even … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, cults, daniel sheehan, extraterrestrials, gnosticism, psychology, religion, science, social psychology, testimony, UFOs
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Contemporary “Confidence Atheism” and the Jaw-Jutting Fundamentalist Style
I think, as a practical matter, if the purpose of atheism is to win debates with, or score points against, theists, then it makes sense to resist phrases like “fundamentalist atheist.” But as an existential concern, this kind of semantic … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, authoritarianism, Ayn Rand, cults, religion, rush limbaugh, worldviews
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You Don’t Need to Follow Me. You Don’t Need to Follow Anybody! You’re All Individuals. Yes, We’re All Individuals!
Brian tries to get his followers to think for themselves:
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Tagged Christianity, cults, Jesus, Michael Shermer, philosophy, Politics, psychology, reason, religion, skepticism, social psychology
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Prometheus Unbound 