http://arthuride.wordpress.com Refuting fantasies in politics, religion, society Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:51:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/98fc8bccb7c62c132ab492eac2f18f6b?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://arthuride.wordpress.com http://arthuride.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/freedom-of-religion-fact-and-fantasy/ http://arthuride.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/freedom-of-religion-fact-and-fantasy/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:01:26 +0000 arthuride http://arthuride.wordpress.com/?p=6260 Continue reading →]]> http://arthuride.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/freedom-of-religion-fact-and-fantasy/feed/ 3 arthuride 1692 Massachusetts Christian Puritans saw the Devil everywhere Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony hanging Quakers Anne Hutchinson 1 Corinthians 14 and the silence of women Gideon's Holocaust of Semitic people in Palestine/Canaan 18th century carricature of Pope on Guy Fawkes Night in Boston The Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) New Amsterdam (1626 engraving) Jews in Colonial America (17th century drawing) Jews found a home in New York (August 1654 drawing) Jacob Barsimson arrives at New Amsterdam (1654) Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (New York) Covenant of Peace (first Jewish synagogue at Eaton, PA) 1839 Anti-Catholic American Patriot showing hatred for the Pope KKK armed to defend the USA from an invasion by Rome and its Catholic priests (19th century) Second Amendment to Constitution of the USA. Irish Catholics, Jews and Blacks were considered equally evil by White "saved" Christians leadding to establishing the KKK. "American Patriot" Anti-Catholic articles attacking Pope and End Times theology In Inferno canto 19 Dante rebukes pope Nicholas III in the fourth bolgia Benedict XVI (resigned papacy February 18, 2013) Ashlynn Conner, a little Irish American girl, bullied into suicide at age 10 in Illinois Charles Darwin on atheism Atheism in San Diego, California (2013) Humanist ads are not attack advertising. Aesculapius, Greek God of Medicine and Healing with serpent (Wisdom) on staff, and cock (health and ease of death) on pedestal. Religion is like genitalia: don't show it off in public or shove it down your children's throat Bishop Eddie Long's boy friends States that the deny atheists and agnostics basic human and civil rights Coptic fragment referring to Jesus wife (or partner?) The Emperor Constantine I orders books burned including gospels considered equal to the synoptic gospels and letters he did not like 325 CE Hypatia killed by Christians in Alexandria, Egypt on order of the Coptic Pope Luther, Martin: Von den Jüden und ihren lügen Wittemberg (1543) George Carlin on god