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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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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Trial of Christians in Faith Healing Death of a Child Brings Important Facts to Light How many lives of children should be sacrificed on the altar of religion/superstition?
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Public-school Teachers in Oklahoma are Now Required to Teach the Bible Christian theocrats are steadily moving the US towards becoming a Christian Bible-based theocracy. We must stop them.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 27, 2024
Hebrew Bible-based Israel is an Orphan Maker Killing tens of thousands of children in Gaza must be acceptable to the US and the world based on the fact that no nation has done anything to stop Israel's genocide against the people of Gaza. The genocide the Jewish state of Israel is carrying out is based on the Hebrew Bible.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 27, 2024
Louisiana and the 10 Commandments Even though the 10 Commandments are addressed to the Jews and not to Gentiles, Christians are under the delusion that they are for them. Now, Christian theocrats are pushing a bill in the Louisiana legislature to require the 10 Commandments be posted on all public school classrooms.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 13, 2024
The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is Unleashed on the People in Gaza 14,500 Palestinian children slaughtered by the Jewish state of Israel makes clear the ungodly and cruel Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament are alive and well in the 21st century. Our innate God-given reason is needed to combat it.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 6, 2024
Two-day-old Boy Shows Us the Importance of Reason A two-day-old boy who died because his parents, who are people of faith and not of reason, withheld medical care from him is showing us the importance of reason over faith.
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Why It's Important to Shine the Light of Reason on the Bible The theocrats of the religious right use the Christian Bible to win support for their efforts to turn the US into a Bible-based theocracy. If people objectively read the Bible, they would know it is not the Word of God and the religious right would lose support.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 2, 2024
Why It's Important to Shine the Light of Reason on the Bible The theocrats of the religious right use the Christian Bible to win support for their efforts to turn the US into a Bible-based theocracy. If people objectively read the Bible, they would know it is not the Word of God and the religious right would lose support.
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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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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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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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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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 13, 2023
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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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 28, 2023
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.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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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