The Walking Dead of the Franklin Expedition

Remote Inuit people encountered the remnants of the doomed Franklin Expedition. They thought they had been invaded by demons. Finally, as the footsteps stopped just outside the igloo, it was the old man who went out to investigate. He emerged to see a disoriented figure seemingly unaware of his presence. The being was touching the […]

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America’s True History of Religious Tolerance

Interesting concept. Look at actual American histotry to figure out where the concept of a “Christian Nation” came from. From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”–including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while […]

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Sumerians Confused as God Creates World

Just in time for the holiday season, this tidbit from The Onion. “I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ‘Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, […]

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