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Bob Johnson is a paralegal and a freelance writer in Florida. He was raised Roman Catholic, but after reading Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, he became a Deist. In 1993 he founded the World Union of Deists and in 1996 he launched the first web site devoted to Deism, www.deism.com. He is listed in Who's Who in Hell and is the author of Deism: A Revolution in Religion, A Revolution in You and of An Answer to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. He wrote the introduction to The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition and to Principles of Nature and also writes for Examiner.com and strike-the-root.com.

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What the Bible Donald Trump is Selling Can Teach Us The Bible Donald Trump is promoting, the God Bless the USA Bible, can teach people the fact that contrary to Trump and the theocrats of the religious right, America's Founders did not create America as a Christian nation.
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The Root Cause of Israel's Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza Henry David Thoreau wrote, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Striking the root cause of the evil of the Jewish state of Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza is the only way to stop it and to prevent future inflictions of it.
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European Court of Human Rights Shows Religion Not Required for Morality The European Court of Human Rights last week ruled that the religious practice of slaughtering animals while they're fully conscious, as is required by Islam and Judaism, is a violation of morality. This helps to make the important point that religion is not necessary for people to be moral.
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Is it Bigotry to Tell the Truth? Free speech needs to take precedence over emotions. Without free speech progress is impossible and freedom is destroyed.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 24, 2023
Slaughter in Gaza Shows Modern Israel is Grounded in Ancient Religious Cruelty The root cause of the October 7th attack on Israel and the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza is "revealed" religion. We can eliminate "revealed" religion through reason-based Deism.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's Moses Delusion a Problem on Two Levels Mike Johnson's delusion that God has chosen him to be the modern-day Moses is concerning due to the second-in-line for US presidential succession holds such irrational beliefs as well as how society in general sees the genocidal maniac Moses in a positive light.
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Why Lasting Peace in the "Holy Land" is Not Religiously Possible The violence going on in the "Holy Land" makes it painfully clear peace cannot come from the "revealed" religions. We need a new way of thinking, as Albert Einstein said.
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Islamic Theocracy is Growing in Hamtramck, Michigan The "revealed" religions are slowly and gradually taking away our rights. In Michigan the city council and mayor of the town of Hamtramck are changing laws to put them more in line with Islam.
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Ancient Torah in 21st Century Palestine The Torah is key to the Israeli expanding and brutal occupation of the Palestinian West Bank. We need to break free of the ancient "revealed" religions and their violence promoting teachings.
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The Futility of the Religious Left This article makes the point that there is no reason to cling on to the ancient "revealed" religions. It's time to evolve away from them.
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Deists' Special Connection to the Fourth of July The American Republic was not created by Christians as a Christian nation. The religious right does its best to avoid the Deists and Deism involved in the creation of the American Republic.
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Religious Violence is Intensifying in Palestinian West Bank "Revealed" religion, in this case Judaism, is the cause of religious violence in the Palestinian West Bank. Judaism, through its alleged Word of God the Hebrew Bible, teaches that all of that land was given to the Jews for a Jewish state.
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New UN Report Reveals Disgusting Amounts of Misogyny - Could Religion Be a Cause?? The United Nations report on misogyny fails to mention a primary cause of misogyny - man-made religions! Reason and Deism are a cure for the misogynistic "revealed" religions.
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Piercing the Vail of Fear-based Religions The "revealed" religions all use fear to win and to keep converts. Belief in witches is a good example of this. The best way to counter the fear-based religions is with God-given innate reason.
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Reason and Deism Can Help Protect Children from Pedophile Clergy The Roman Catholic Church in Illinois got caught lying about the extent of their pedophile priests problem and the number of children the clergymen raped and sexually abused. Reason and Deism can be important tools to help children overcome the leverage of the pedophile clergy.
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 21, 2023
Putting Religion Over Reason Demands a Very High Price Whenever we turn our backs on our reason, we are opening ourselves and our loved ones up to danger and harm. The "revealed" religions require people to turn their backs on their innate God-given reason. This too often results in irreversible harm, as in the case of Lori Vallow Daybell and her children.
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What the Last Supper Teaches Us About Jesus It's important for people to know facts about the Bible so they can use their reason to evaluate the true content of the Bible. Why was Jesus celebrating the Passover, which depicts God as a butcher of the firstborn of Egypt?
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(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Most Christians Do Not Believe What is in Their Bible A claim that prayer cause a woman's amputated toes to grow back is a lie and can only be believed if you've given up your innate God-given reason for what the clergy call faith. Most Christians don't believe in "miracles" like this due to their lack of knowledge of what is in their own Christian Bible.
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Hypocrisy of Religious People Regarding Women The misogyny of all of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions needs to end. It won't end if people ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. Our innate God-given reason is the best tool to use to end it.
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Judaism: An Insurmountable Obstacle to Peace As Henry David Thoreau made clear, to solve a problem we must strike at its root. The root problem regarding peace between the Jewish state of Israel and Palestine is Judaism and its promotion of religious violence and Jewish superiority.

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