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Israeli Ambassador to UN has Temper Tantrum Danny Danon calls Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, a "witch" because of her report about Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Donald Trump and Israel's God Donald Trump, and most US politicians from both parties, works for genocidal Israel and its genocidal God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Will Jesus Return Soon? Jesus Thought So! The claim last week that Jesus was going to fly down close to Earth and Rapture Christians was proven false. Not many people are aware that, according to the anonymous authors of the Christian Gospels, Jesus thought he would come back to Earth 2,000 years ago! Jesus was wrong about that; what else was he wrong about?
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Donald Trump Takes Action to Make America Pray Again Donald Trump and his team of Christian theocrats in the White House have launched the America Prays Initiative. This program blatantly attacks separation of religion from government which can only move us closer to the US becoming a Bible-based Judeo-Christian monstrosity.
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The "Book of the Wars of the Lord" and Gaza The "Book of the Wars of the Lord" helps us to understand the Jewish state of Israel's genocidal cruelty now going on in Gaza. The Hebrew Bible and its promotion of religious violence, slavery and Jewish superiority is the key to grasping Israel's actions.
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Deism: Raising the Bar of Belief It's blatantly obvious the "revealed" religions have failed us. Not only by promoting false claims and harmful ideas, but because, as seen in Gaza right now, they practice genocide when they are able to. It's time for a rational and natural change!
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Lasting Peace Cannot Coexist With "Revealed" Religions As is evident from the religious violence raging in the "holy" land, lasting peace cannot coexist with "revealed" religions. We need Deism, which is based on nature and reason, not violence promoting "revealed" religions.
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House Speaker Johnson Shows Why Deism is Important Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a Christian theocrat intent on turning the US into a Christian Bible-based nation. He recently lied about a prayer he said in the House of Representatives, falsely claiming it was from Thomas Jefferson.
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Where Does Israel's Bible-based Claim to Land End? Most people are aware of Israel's land theft from the Palestinians. This article examines the root cause of this crime.
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Religious Violence in the "Holy" Land Proves Deist Thomas Paine was Correct With all the religious-based violence going on in the "Holy" Land, we need to take the advice of the Deist Thomas Paine. He called for a Deism revolution in religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Southern Baptist Convention Kicks-out Saddleback Megachurch for Having Women Pastors The Southern Baptist Convention took action based on the misogyny that is promoted in the Christian Bible. Removing Saddleback megachurch from the SBC was much more a religious act than a political act. The Bible is the root of the problem.
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An Israeli Government Rabbi Said the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "Divine Justice" An Israeli government rabbi claims the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "divine justice" due to the negative way Turkey and Syria interact with the Jewish state of Israel.
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An Islamic Victory Against Free Speech and Education A college professor lost her job teaching art history because she showed the class an image of a painting of Mohammed. We need to break free of the stranglehold Islam and the other manmade "revealed" religions have on society.
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Iran Executes Demonstrators For "Waging War Against God" The Islamic Republic of Iran is killing people for "waging war against God." This should help people realize God and religion are two very different things, as well as the dangers of mixing religion and government.
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The Logical Conclusion of the Religious Right's Religious Freedom of Expression Argument The theocrats in the religious right are enjoying many victories in their work to subvert the US into a Bible-based Christian theocracy. The Bible can be used to stop them.
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Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, From Hebrews to Negroes, Judaism and Chosenness Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, along with the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement and people in Christian Identity, need to honestly ask themselves why they would want to be considered the "true" ancient Jews/Israelites. Objectively looking at the ungodly and cruel actions the Hebrew Bible claims the ancient Jews committed, no one in their right mind would want that label.
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Another Child Killed Due to Religious/Superstitious Belief in Demons Our beliefs are important because they determine what our actions are. Five-year-old Cairo Jordan had a religious/superstitious mother who believed Cairo was possessed by a demon. Her action based on this irrational belief was to perform an exorcism on him, which killed him.
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Australia v. Israel Australia has taken a move that can help to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians when it reversed its decision to recognize Israeli-occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
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Jesus For the Left, Jesus For the Right The fact the religious left and the religious right can both use the Bible to back-up their opposing agendas shows us the Bible is meaningless. We need our innate God-given reason, not "revealed" religions in the 21st century.
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Iranian Woman's Death While in Custody of Islamic Morality Police Leads to Widespread Demonstrations Mahsa Amini is a victim of Islamic morality police. The Islamic morality police are motivated by the misogyny and religious violence promoted and commanded in the Quran and Islam. It's time to let go of the "revealed" religions!
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Belief in "Revealed" Religion Leads to Rape of Children Christian clergyman Naasón JoaquÃn GarcÃa used the belief in divine revelation to not only financially profit from his faith-based Christian followers, but to rape little girls. Now his victims are suing him and his megachurch.
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Israel's Cover-up of its Killing of Palestinian-American Reporter Shireen Abu Akleh is Reminiscent of the USS Liberty The Jewish state of Israel's brutal murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and its ensuing cover-up is similar to Israel's cover-up and excuses for its deadly sneak attack on the USS Liberty and its cover-up, lies and excuses. US politicians from both parties accept the deaths and the cover-ups.
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A Recent Exorcism Case Reveals Important Information About Christians and Their Bible A recent case of an exorcism at a Bible camp sheds light on the fact that most people who consider themselves to be Christians are ignorant of the content of their Christian Bible. Deists and all freethinkers should help to educate them about the true contents and teachings in their Bible.
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Hero of Free Speech, Salman Rushdie, Stabbed by Islamic Terrorist Salman Rushdie was attacked and stabbed by a young man who was under the influence of Islam. Islam, and all of the man-made "revealed" Abrahamic religions have blasphemy laws and rules which are intended to prevent people from applying their innate God-given reason to the nonsense being taught by the "revealed" religions.
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This Little Girl Paid the Price For Religion/Superstition Eight-year-old Elizabeth Rose Struhs paid the price for the biblical superstition of faith healing. When will we stop the killing of innocent and helpless children to satisfy religious/superstitious delusions?
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Christian Couple Uses 'Religious Freedom Restoration Act' as Defense in Beating Their Children The belief that the Bible is the word of God causes much pain, harm and even death to innocent and helpless children. This needs to be addressed and corrected.
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Russian Official Warns of 'Horsemen of the Apocalypse' - What Does That Demonstrate? The modern-day acceptance of ancient religious promotion of violence causes violence to be much more likely in our world today.
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The Power of Beliefs For Good or For Evil Our beliefs determine what our actions are. If our beliefs are based on irrational nonsense, our resulting actions will be harmful to ourselves and to people around us. Now is the time to promote reason over "faith" and nonsense.
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Most Americans Believe Moral Lessons of Passover and Easter Are Important A new survey by two Christian theocratic organizations shows the majority of Americans believe Passover and Easter have moral values that can help America. This article points out that Passover and Easter are void of moral values and that we need a new religious/spiritual alternative to the "revealed" religions.
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Saving the Lives of Children Through Reason The mistaken belief that the Bible, or any man-made book, is the Word of God causes very real problems. This article is about how the mistaken belief that the Bible is the Word of God causes innocent and helpless children to suffer and die. It also offers a solution to this horrific problem.
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What Blasphemy Laws Say About Religions A 26-year-old woman in Pakistan was recently sentenced to death by hanging for committing blasphemy against Islam. This article points out the reasons for blasphemy laws and how we can end them.
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Israel's 2022 Wish List to the US Congress The powerful and wealthy Israel lobby has a 2022 wish list for the US Congress and White House. Its contents can mean another Iraq-type of war, only this time against Israel's enemy Iran.
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County Sheriff Mixes Religion With Government Due to Fear The Sheriff of Columbus County, North Carolina refuses to take down a quote from the Christian Bible that is on the wall of the sheriff's office because he is afraid he will burn in Hell.
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Deism Can Unite People, But Can't Unite Religions Most people are aware that the vast majority of violence harming the world today is religious violence. This article explains how Deism can stop religious violence. .
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Bible-believing Man "Sacrifices" Five People in Texas A Bible-believing man in Texas believed God wanted him to sacrifice five innocent people. He did what he felt God wanted him to do: he murdered five people. This is a sad and preventable example of what Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
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Are the Taliban Really Islamic Extremists? The Taliban Islamic terrorists are not Islamic extremists relative to the teachings of Islam found in the Quran.
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Cruel and Deadly Religious Violence Unleashed at Kabul Airport In the religious war going on in Afghanistan, the suicide bombing at Kabul airport took the lives of over 70 people. It's all based on religion. .
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Israeli Government Chief Rabbi Exposes Religious Divisiveness Extends to the Hereafter Israel's chief government rabbi David Lau wants the body of a gentile woman exhumed from a cemetery in Jerusalem because she was not Jewish; she only pretended to be a Jew before dying of cancer. Lau is showing that the divisiveness of religion extends to the grave. .
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Irrational QAnon Beliefs Lead to Father Murdering His Two Children Abandoning your reason in order to believe in Christianity or any other irrational "revealed" religion, sets a precedent to ignore your reason in order to believe in irrational and harmful conspiracy theories.
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Netflix and Blasphemy Christians have pressured Netflix to end its streaming of the comedy The First Temptation of Christ. If they don't like it, no one should be able to watch it? .
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Deism/Freethinker Remembrance Day - July 26th Freedom of and from religion came at a very high cost. The Deist Cayetano Ripoll, the last person murdered by the Spanish Inquisition, paid for it with his life. .
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Ben & Jerry's Principled Decision to Stop Doing Business in the Occupied Palestinian Territories An important fact is brought out by Ben & Jerry's idealistic decision to stop doing business in the illegally and cruelly occupied Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem That fact is, as Albert Einstein has shown, you can be opposed to the Jewish state without being opposed to Jewish people.
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There IS Something New Under the Sun That Can Destroy Us Today, July 16, 2021, is the 76th anniversary of the first atomic-bomb detonation in recorded history. This event marked a change in our environment that we must all adapt to by changing our thinking if we want to survive in the nuclear age. .
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Catholic Exorcist Inadvertently Helps Deists and All Freethinkers! Humor is an important tool in battling harmful religious superstitions. A Catholic exorcist who claims demons are sending text messages is providing Deists and all freethinkers with the tool of humor! .
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Fear-based Religious Lies Promoted by Hollywood The "revealed" religions thrive on making people fearful. They have an ally in Hollywood, as is seen in the current movie The Conjuring, which is falsely advertised as being based on a true story. Marie Curie gave us great advice when she wrote, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
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"Revealed" Religion is the Root Cause of the Ongoing Violence Between Israelis and Palestinians Our beliefs determine what our actions will be. Israel endorses belief in the cruel and ungodly Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible/OT teaches that God gave the Jews all the land between the Euphrates River and the Nile for their Jewish state of Israel. Believing this ancient religious lie causes religious violence in the 21st century.
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Christian Terrorist Murders Eight People in Georgia Corporate media is virtually ignoring the religious, Christian, Bible-based motivation Long had for his deadly crusade against sites of temptation.
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Women and the "Holy" Books For too long the misogynistic teachings in all of the "holy" books of the "revealed" religions have gone unchallenged. It's time for a change!
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Israeli PM Netanyahu Uses the Bible to Threaten Iran On Tuesday Israeli PM Netanyahu threatened Iran by using the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament story of Esther, who, as the story goes, was responsible for the deaths of over 75,000 Persians. This is what Purim celebrates. This antiquated mindset is very dangerous in the nuclear age we are now in.
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Trump's Lawyer and The Nonsense and Danger of Religious Rituals Trump's lawyer, David Schoen, has brought us the opportunity to investigate religious rituals and the very real danger they are.
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Denial is a Dangerous Attack on Truth No one ever solved a problem by denying its source and cause. Today politicians attempt to stop religious violence by denying that the "revealed" religions promote religious violence. Deism is the solution to this deadly and real problem.
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US Government Gives Plaque of Lies to City of David Foundation in Palestine Trump's bankruptcy lawyer and Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, dedicated a plaque full of lies about America's Founders and the US being founded on Judeo-Christian values to the City of David Foundation in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank and Palestinian East Jerusalem.
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Religions Set Us Up For Failure The recent clergy created declaration calling for better treatment of LBGT people ignores the elephant in the room: hate-based homophobic religious scriptures that are claimed to be from God.
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Another Child Killed by Religion/Superstition Christian parents who believe in the Bible's claim of Satan, devils and demons, allowed their four-year-old daughter to be killed in an exorcism. We need reason, not religion.
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Tax-exempt Religions Raked in BILLIONS of US Tax Dollars Even though the tax-exempt religions do not pay taxes, they received BILLIONS of US tax-dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program. This needs to stop, and the Deist Thomas Paine told us how to stop it!
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Truth is Priceless, So We Should Act Accordingly As the John Lennon song says, "Gimme some truth". The first step in discovering what is true is to detect what is false, so you can eliminate the falsehoods. Reason is the tool we use to do this. Deism sees innate reason as God-given. Yet, the religions, which claim to represent God, reject God-given reason. This causes very real suffering in the world.
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Saudi Women's Rights Activist Persecuted by Misogynistic Sunni Muslim Government Loujain al-Hathloul is a women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia. She was arrested in 2018 for using her human rights of free speech. She went through a two-week hunger strike to protest Saudi officials torturing her and not allowing her to see her parents. Her case was transferred to a new and more brutal court. A change of thinking is required for an end to religious misogyny and brutality.
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Belief in the Bible Prevents Peace Between Israel and Palestine After decades of failed peace talks between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Gentiles, nothing has been achieved. In fact, while "peace talks" were going on, Israel continued stealing land from the Palestinians. The reason for this is belief in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
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Alex Trebek and Hell The recent death of Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy, has inspired a Christian author to write an article using fear tied to Trebek's afterlife, to win new converts to Christianity. It's time to replace fear with unconditional love.
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"Radical Islam" Is Islam The heartless and ungodly murder by beheading teacher Samuel Paty in France by a Muslim terrorist did not have to happen. The best way to stop religious violence is through honesty and reason.
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Does the Abraham Accord Promote Peace or a Plan For War? Contrary to the mainstream media, the Abraham Accord is not as much a step towards peace as it is a step towards a religious war against Iran.
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Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Uses Bible to Justify Land Theft The root cause of the Jewish state of Israel's illegal, cruel and expanding occupation of Palestinian land is the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, recently made this very clear. The only way to combat this religious myth is through reason.
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A Seven-year-old and a Seventeen-year-old Teach Us Why Reason Must Prevail Over "Revelation" Seven-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Rylee Ryan were murdered based on the belief of the parents in Divine revelation. They would still be alive if their parents had realized that God gave the innate reason and not religion. Reason must prevail over "revelation" and religion/superstition.
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Trump, Pelosi and Biden's Battle of the Bible! One thing Trump, Pelosi and Biden all have in common is the promotion of the religious violence promoting and ungodly Bible. This is something to be concerned about in a nuclear age.
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Iran Has a Special Fear of Women Nasrin Sotoudeh is a human-rights activist and lawyer in Iran. She has been imprisoned and whipped with 148 lashes because she refuses to submit to the Islamic theocracy of Iran. The Iranian government fears her so much, they refuse to temporarily release her from prison during the coronavirus pandemic. She is not alone, as other women who resist have made their way to North America.
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Will the Coronavirus Start the Beginning of the End of the "Revealed" Religions? People looking at the response of the "revealed" religions to the coronavirus pandemic can't help but have strong doubts as to the claims made by the "revealed" religions regarding answered prayers, faith healing, etc. This is an opportunity for Deists, and for all freethinkers, to empower people to break free of the "revealed" religions by letting them know God gave them reason, not religion.
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Coronavirus Exposes the False Advertising of Christianity Instead of being on the defense hoping Christian churches will refrain from holding large public church meetings, which causes the spread of the deadly coronavirus, we need to help the people currently under their influence to break free of the harmful false advertising of Christian faith healing. False advertising is not allowed in any venue with the exception of religion. This needs to end.
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A Christian Church is Attacked for Following the Bible Regarding Coronavirus Why should anyone be surprised or angered by Christians taking action on their Bible-based beliefs and superstitions? That's what happened when a Christian church ignored calls for people not to gather in large groups due to the coronavirus.
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Protect Children From Deadly Religious Superstitions With Reason and Deism In the last six months at least four eight-day old baby boys in New York City have been infected with herpes because the rabbis/mohels who circumcised them used their mouth to suck blood from the circumcision wound. This religious crime against children, and all harm caused by all the "revealed" religions, can be stopped with innate God-given reason and Deism.
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US Congresswoman Betty McCollum Blasts the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Calling AIPAC a Hate Group US Representative Betty McCollum was attacked by the most powerful part of the overly powerful Israel lobby, AIPAC. She is fighting back! She's a true inspiration and a true profile in courage!
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Why "Revealed" Religions Are Hypocritical When They Oppose Hate and Fear It's amazing to see the hypocrisy of religions that have hate, fear and violence as the bedrock of the "holy" books oppose hate, fear and violence. It's time for truth in advertising for the "revealed" religions!
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The Power of Thomas Paine Thomas Paine is too often overlooked. Without Paine the American Revolution would not have happened. His Common Sense got people off the fence, and The Crisis kept them going when things went from bad to worse. His Deism caused many people to hate him. However, his Deism is the key to countering the theocrats in the religious right.
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Attention Nones: You Have a Home in Deism The number of people in the US who are classified as religious "nones" is now at least equal to the number of Catholics and to the number of Christian evangelicals. Contrary to popular assumption, the vast majority of these people are not Atheists, as they are rejecting religion, not belief in God/The Supreme Intelligence. Belief in God plus rejection of religion equals Deism.
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Christians and Molotov Cocktails The Fascist organization Command of Popular National Insurgence claimed reponsibility for firebombing the production offices of the Brazillian comedy troupe Porta dos Fundos. The Fascists were angry about the troupes film "The First Temptation of Christ", and relied on old time religious violence to show their anger.
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Something Real to Celebrate December 25th Deists and all freethinkers often feel left out during the Christmas season. We don't buy the Jesus story. Thankfully we have something very real to celebrate that happened on December 25, 1776, the Battle of Trenton. This is the battle that saved the American Revolution from failing, and which allows us today to have, to a large degree, freedom of speech, etc.
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Religious Violence Erupts in Jersey City, New Jersey Killing Six People The religious violence based attack by Black Hebrew Israelites against Jews in a kosher grocery store in New Jersey makes clear the destructive power of man-made "revealed" religions. As the Deist Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
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Nancy Pelosi Spews Catholic Propaganda Nancy Pelosi, perhaps in an effort to win over Christians who vote for Trump and Republicans, claimed she doesn't hate anyone because she is a Catholic. This is pure nonsense, as anyone familiar with Catholicism and the Bible would know. As the Deist Thomas Paine pointed out in The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, nonsense needs to be treated as nonsense.
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Deism in the Struggle Between Humanity and Religion Humanity cannot be found in the "revealed" religions due to their portrayal of God as being cruel, jealous and genocidal, as well as because of their ambiguity. Reason-based Deism can correct this problem.
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Deism Can Put an End to Religious Misogyny Misogyny is morally wrong. It is also promoted by all of the man-made Abrahamic "revealed" religions. Recently a woman in Jordan, an Islamic nation, was beaten and had her eyes gouged out by her husband. The Quran claims God commanded Muslim men to beat/scourge women who they fear may become rebellious towards them. Deism can put an end to these harmful religious teachings, if given the chance.
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The Jesus the Religious Left Will Not Discuss Imagine the profound progress the world can make if we finally let go of the man-made "revealed" religions and all of their fear-based hate and superstitions. It's definitely something to work towards! God Gave Us Reason, Not Religion! Bob Johnson www.deism.com
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Israel Worried Chances of a US War Against Iran are Diminishing Donald Trump's recent actions that appear to show he is moving away from a path of war against Israel's enemy Iran has Israeli officials worried.
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Ed Smart, Father of Elizabeth Smart, Announces He Is Gay and Reveals Truths About Religion and Gay People When Ed Smart, the father of Elizabeth Smart, recently came out and announced he is gay, he also revealed some important information about religion and its impact on gay people.
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Clear Examples of Religion Pushing Religious War in the 21st Century The ancient superstitions Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all based on are driving nations in the 21st century to go to religious wars. If we want to survive in a nuclear age, this must stop.
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Zionist Billionaire Wants the Bible to Have a Book of Trump Zionist billionaire Miriam Adelson, wrote a glowing article about Donald Trump. In it she said she prays that the Bible will have a "Book of Trump" in its contents.
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Violence Is Not The Answer - Reason and Deism Are! We need to realize that violence is not the answer, reason is. This will take a lot of work, but it must be done. We can win over people currently under the influence of the "revealed" religions by letting them know that God gave us reason, not religion. Deism is the best way to accomplish this.
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Michigan Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Religion and Against Children The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that religion is more important than the lives of children.
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US Ambassador to Israel States that "God's Is On Israel's Side" US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, believes Israel is on God's side and God is on Israel's side. As an Orthodox Jew and member of the Jewish priestly caste, the Kohanim, it's not surprising that Friedman suffers from these delusions. However, for a US ambassador, these religious delusions are harmful and dangerous.
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Oliver Stone's Apparent Fear of Israel Israel, the Israel lobby, the neocons and the Trump administration are busy working to get Americans into a war against Iran for the benefit of Israel. We need people with the ability and means to warn American about this rapidly approaching danger. Oliver Stone neglected to mention the Israel connection to the Iraq War in his film W. He, and others like him, should take a stand and try to avert the coming war.
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Why Religious Coexistence is Impossible We often hear that the "revealed" religions and those people in them need to coexist. If we become objectively familiar with the teachings of those man-made "revealed" religions, we quickly see coexistence is impossible. Instead, we need to do away with them through peaceful means based on our innate God-given reason.
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Bible Study in Public Schools Should Include All of the Bible There is an increased push by theocrats in the religious right to bring the Bible into public schools. Freethinkers need to make themselves familiar with the evil Bible verses and teachings that are too often overlooked and ignored. This knowledge can be used to help reach sincere people currently under the influence of the Bible.
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Trump: "We Have To Protect Israel" As he maneuvers the US into a war against Iran, Donald Trump openly states that the US must protect the Jewish state of Israel.
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Why a Deistic Revolution in Religion is Important A key tool the theocrats in the religious right use to win support from millions of people is the lie that America was founded as a Christian nation. American founder and Deist Thomas Paine called for a revolution in religion based on our innate God-given reason and Deism. Mass knowledge of this can help people free themselves from religious influence and stop the US from becoming a theocracy.
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Donald Trump's United Nations Speech and Hypocrisy Donald Trump's wins much of his support by convincing people he believes in putting America first. However, his actions put Israel first. His fake promotion of American sovereignty in his recent UN speech is made evident by Trump not taking a public stand against Israel recent statement that it can violate any nation's sovereignty.
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The Biblical Basis For Israel's Jewish Nation-State Law Israel's recently passed Jewish Nation-State Law surprised many people who were under the delusion that Israel is a democracy. This new law helps us to see that it is completely impossible to have a religion-based democracy.
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The Anniversary of the Last Killing by the Spanish Inquisition When religion and government are mixed together, we get dangerous and ungodly monstrosities like the Spanish Inquisition. The last person murdered by the Spanish Inquisition was the Deist Cayetano Ripoll. Too few people are aware of Cayetano Ripoll, Deism and the fact that the Spanish Inquisition was still killing "heretics" into the 19th century.
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Does Loving Truth Make You Hostile to Religion? US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is opposed to "religious hostility". He doesn't realize that you cannot love and value truth while pandering to religions that attack the truth.
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Is It Possible to be Progressive and Christian? The religious left "Reclaiming Jesus" movement is missing the point that we need reason and not religion. Especially in a nuclear age, if we want to survive, we need to change our thinking, as Albert Einstein pointed out.
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Roseanne Barr's Hatred of People in the BDS Movement Roseanne Barr's interview at the Jerusalem Post conference showed how her religious hatred of people in the BDS movement is based on ancient man-made "holy" books. It's great to know that young people are turning away from the man-made "revealed" religions.
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Join the US Military and Die For Israel US Air Force General Richard Clark said US troops are prepared to die for the Jewish state of Israel. Americans in the military need to know who they are really fighting for, while young Americans need to know prior to joining the US military.
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Young Turks Are Leaving Islam For Deism Turkish students in state-sponsored Islamic schools are leaving Islam for Deism. This has Turkish government and religious officials upset. It would be wonderful to see the same thing happen in the US as it would greatly weaken the religious right.
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President John Kennedy's Idea to Protect Elections From the 1% Can Work President John F. Kennedy is famous for a lot of things. However, one idea of his that most people are not aware of, if implemented, would make voting meaningful again.
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The Religious Right Is Not Dead - But It Can Be Prior to Trump's victory, which was made possible by the religious right, many people believed the religious right was dead. We now know better. One weapon that has never been used on a large scale to defeat the religious right is Deism. It's now time for Deism.
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Hillary Clinton Opposes Israel BDS Movement Hillary Clinton wants the White House and knows this means she must please the powerful Israel lobby. One of the ways she is doing this is to attack the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement which is attempting to bring pressure on Israel in order to end its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and for more democracy for Palestinian within the Jewish state. |