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How Many Has God Killed?
How many has God killed? If you haven’t seen this video before and as a good Christian who read his holy Bible, have an educated guess on how many humans did God kill! Do you think you can really predict the numbers? Watch this! I laughed my pants off at the end of the video!
A light-hearted (yet sickening) look at the number of deaths God ordained in the Bible. These stats are based on Steve Wells’ research which can be found here:
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2010/04/drunk-with-blood-gods-killings-in-bible.htmlhttp://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-many-has-god-killed-complete-list.html
I don’t necessarily agree with every account in his research, as a couple examples are rather ambiguous. However, events like the Flood more than make up for any discrepancies in this extremely conservative 2.6 million figure.
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The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby
According to The Great Agnostic, there were two great opponents of religion and proponents of naturalism in American history: Thomas Paine and Robert Ingersoll. Strangely, hardly anyone today has heard of Ingersoll. (For that matter, few Americans today know that Tom Paine had anything to say about religion.)
Robert Ingersoll was a world-famous lawyer and lecturer who lived from 1833 to 1899. He was considered perhaps the greatest orator of his day. He had an extremely successful career traveling all across the country, lecturing to large, appreciative crowds, among whom were many ordinary, religious Americans. He was a member of the social and political establishment, but his public statements opposing religion insured that he never held political office.
In Susan Jacoby’s words, Ingersoll “explained the true meaning and value of science … in a more understandable fashion than any scientist, even the brilliant popularizer Thomas Henry Huxley … Second…
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What is Humanism?
by Hemant Mehta, The Friendly Atheist
From the Atheist Voice video series
Humanist Manifesto III from the American Humanist Association
Jennifer Michael Hecht: “The History of Atheism, Feminism and the Science of Brains”
Recorded at the Center for Inquiry “Women in Secularism 2” conference, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books and two volumes of poetry. Her bestseller “Doubt: A History” demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt. Hecht’s “The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology” won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her most recent book, “The Happiness Myth,” brings a skeptical eye to modern wisdom about the good life. Hecht’s poetry books are “The Next Ancient World,” which won three national poetry awards, and “Funny,” which Publisher’s Weekly called “one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.” Her prose and poetry appear in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. Hecht earned her PhD in the History of Science from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches in the MFA program of Columbia University and The Graduate Writing Program of The New School University.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net
http://www.womeninsecularism.org
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