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 Recent Postings

The Finely Tuned Universe The State Run Corporatist Kleptocracy Columbus the Wetiko:  Ideology and Democracy:

Confessions of a Reluctant Anarchist:   Tommy Douglas Tribute:   Positive Thinking Mythology:   Natives Buy Montana:

Education and the Conservative Corporate Welfare State:    Is Progress is a Delusion?:    A Modern Account of Anarchism:  

Native Subjugation or How the West Was Won:   Tragedy of Haiti:   Two Unwarranted Beliefs of Liberal Christians:

US Empire in Latin America:   The Conservative Corporate Welfare State:  Neo-Conservatism & the Disempowerment of Labor:   

The Underachieving Christian God:  Democracy RIP - The Meritocracy Myth:   On Human Nature:   Obama a Socialist and Fascist?:

Criteria for President of the USA:   Neo-Con Dystopia:   Native Residential Schools:   WWJ: Groucho Marxism

Our Beneficent Government:

 

I Personal 

My Favorite   ~     Books:         Writers:      Movies:       Intellectuals:    Metaphysics:   Annoyances:    Skeptics Manifesto:

Favorite Websites:    Skeptical Ruminations:   Photos:     Confessions of a Reluctant Anarchist:   Tommy Douglas Tribute:

Paper on Self Esteem:  Free Thought Reading List:   Free Thought Quotations:   The Underachieving Christian God:

Has Christianity Been Hijacked?:        Did the Easter Bunny Die for Our Sins:  Is Religion a Childhood Neurosis?: On Human Nature:  

Propaganda Inc:  Bullshit & the Contempt for Language: The Poverty of Religious Ethics:  Reflections on Remembrance Day:

Thoughts on God and an Afterlife:     Reading Orwell:  Patriotic Drivel:   The Conservative Corporate Welfare State:

On the Spanish Civil War:  Is That All There Is?:   My Mom on 9-11:   Grade Inflation and Self-Esteem:   Democracy RIP - The Meritocracy Myth:

Obama a Socialist and Fascist?:   Criteria for President of the USA: Groucho Marxism   Our Beneficent Government: Ideology and Democracy:

 

II Bertrand Russell

Russell Reading List:     Russell Quotes:  On Religion and Education:      Critique of Faith: 

Advantage of Cowardice:  On Authority in Ethics:   Essay on Bertrand Russell in Free Inquiry:

Russell Essay Collection: (A Free Mans Worship, In Praise of Idleness, The Philosophical Consequences of Relativity, Has Religion

 Made Useful Contributions to Civilization, The Russell Einstein Manifesto, What is the Soul?, Why I'm Not A Christian - Adobe Acrobat Format))

Russell and CUNY:  (Russell's 1940 prohibition from teaching at City University of New York - Adobe Acrobat Format)

Conquest of Happiness:  An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish:   Was Bertrand Russell an Anarchist?

 

III  Native American History

500 Year Reich:   American Holocaust by David Stannard: Review of American Holocaust:  

Was Columbus a Christian Terrorist?   Homeland Security:   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:

Genocide in the Americas:   Genocide of Canadian Indigenous People:   American Genocide:

We're Number One:   Fantasies of the Master Race:   Sand Creek Massacre:   Columbus the Wetiko:

Neither Wolf Nor Dog:   Columbus the Alien Butcher:   Native American Religion:

Deconstructing Columbus:   Since Predator Came:   Native Subjugation or How the West Was Won:

US Empire in Latin America:   Native Residential Schools:   Natives Buy Montana:

 

IV  A C Grayling

Personal Web Site:    A C Grayling Essays:

 

V Logic, Skepticism & Critical Thinking

Constructive Skepticism:    Indoctrination:   Belief and faith:   Critical Thinking Guide:    Logic Guidelines:

Intellectual Barriers to Belief:   Influence and Authority:  Commonplace Nonsense:   Logical Argumentation:  

 Skepticism Test and Logical Levity:  Skeptics Tool Kit: (Adobe Acrobat Format)    Top Ten Modern Delusions:

 Arguments From Ignorance:   The Latest in New Age Nonsense:  Point of Inquiry Podcsts:   Skeptics Manifesto:

 

VI  Religious, Philosophical and Scientific:

1. Atheism

Why Atheism?:    Moral Consequences of Atheism:   Critique of Divine Command Ethics:

 Atheists and Freedom From Religion:   God is not Great:  Atheist Manifesto:  

Ethical & Intellectual Profile of Atheists:   Secularism & the Autonomy of Ethics:   Belief in Belief:

E M Forster - What I Believe: Pat Condell Web Site:  Bill Gates & Warren Buffett: Altruistic Atheists:    

The Impossibility of an Omnipotent or Omniscient God: Heretical Quotes:   What is Anarchism:  

Penn Jillette There is no God:   Thank Goodness - Daniel Dennett:   Christopher Hitches on Atheism:  

The Four Horsemen (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens & Harris: WWJ:   The Finely Tuned Universe

 

2. Critiques of Religion and Ethics

Critique of Biblical Ethics:    People of Faith:  Is Religion a Childhood Neurosis?:   

Acts of God: Confessions of a Lonely Atheist:    My God Problem:   

Christ Films:   American Taliban:  Religion, Morality & Hypocrisy:    WWJ:

Is God a Dead Beat?:   God Changes Everything:     Islam for Dummies:  

H. L. Mencken on Religion: Wendy Kaminer ~ "The Last Taboo": 

Christ Conspiracy:   Michael Persinger Interview:  God is not Great:  Two Unwarranted Beliefs of Liberal Christians:

Did Jesus Exist - And Does It Matter?:  Most Famous Christian of the 20th Century:    The Trouble With Religion:  

Billy Graham - The Dark Side:   Thoughts on the Ten Commandments:    Christopher Hitches on Religion:  

End of World Blues - Ian McEwan:   The Christian Mafia:   Pat Condell Web Site:  

The Poverty of Religious Ethics:    The Four Horsemen (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens & Harris:

Darwin & Design for Dummies:    Dubious Design:   The Case of Robert Latimer:

Born Again Inc:   The Jesus Sayings:   Christian Fascists:    The Underachieving Christian God:

 

VII  Historical, Sociological and Political

1. Anarchism

What is Anarchism:  Thoughts on Anarchism:   Anarchism and Education in 20th Century:

Anarchist Education:    Howard Zinn on Anarchism:   A Modern Account of Anarchism:

 

2. Spanish Civil War

Synopsis of the Spanish Civil War:   Paul Preston on the Spanish Civil War:    Prelude and Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War:

Forgotten Genocide:    Alvah Bessie - Men in Battle(1939):    Epilogue to Men in Battle:   Durruti in the Spanish Revolution:

 

3. North American Politics and Culture

Impending War in Iraq:   Immorality of the War in Iraq:    Support the Troops!:   Michael Parenti Page:  Criteria for President of the USA:

Bush and the Ethics of Belief:     Religiosity in the American Presidency:  Bill Moyers on What's wrong with America:   

Bill Moyers: America 101:    Bill Moyers: Discovering Democracy:  Secularization in the USA?:   Are we all Socialists:   

Harold Pinter Nobel Speech on US Imperialism:      Joshua, Constantine, Hitler and Bush: Ronald Reagan Obituary:  

Class Divisions in American Society:    What is Fascism?   Ghosts of 9-11   White Whale by E L Doctorow:  Neo-Con Dystopia:

The Fraud Called Thanksgiving:  Afghanistan: The Real Story:   A Brief History of Corporate Welfare:  Obama a Socialist and Fascist?:

The Conservative Corporate Welfare State: Education and the Conservative Corporate Welfare State:   War is a Force that Gives us Meaning:   

Neo-Conservatism & the Disempowerment of Labor:   American Amnesia:   Tragedy of Haiti:   Democracy RIP - The Meritocracy Myth:

Tommy Douglas Tribute:   Groucho Marxism   Our Beneficent Government:   Ideology and Democracy:

The State Run Corporatist Kleptocracy

 

4. Cultural and Sociological

Patriotism: Four Fundamentalisms:    Dissent Page (Audio Clips):    Michael Parenti Page:

Richard Rorty - Failed Prophecies:    Kurt Vonnegut - Cold Turkey: Noam Chomsky Interview with CBC Radio (2002):   

National Anthems:   Harold Bloom - Reflections:   Affirmative Action for Privileged White Males   On Human Nature:  

Who was Adam Smith:     Pat Condell Web Site:   Religion vs Class Struggles:   Grade Inflation and Self-Esteem:

An Idiot's Guide to the War in Iraq:   Noam Chomsky - Goals and Visions:   Reflections on Remembrance Day:

Noam Chomsky: Interview on Ethics and War (July 2007):    Corporate Chemists from Hell:   Positive Thinking Mythology:

Is Progress is a Delusion?:   Venture Capitalism for Dummies:    National Anthems, Loyalty Oaths and Other Patriotic Drivel:  

VIII  Humor

Woody Allen: 1  2  3   George Carlin page:      George Carlin Quotes:       Ridiculous Religions:  

George Carlin on the Ten Commandments:     Bill Hicks Quotes:    Bill Hicks Audio Clips:

Curmudgeon's Dictionary of Religion:    Curmudgeon's Dictionary of Business:   

 

                                 

                                                                                                  

              

 

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                       Only after the last tree has been cut

                       Only after the last river has been poisoned

                       Only after the last fish has been caught

                       Only then will you discover that money cannot be eaten

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               Is the above myth less plausible than any Christian myth?