From Joe King: We can proceed blithely into the chaos of war or financial ruin provided we ignore obvious truths…
John Gray, a political philosopher and author of False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
Satanists Demand Equal Rights at Oklahoma State Capitol
From IBTimes.co.uk:
A group of Satanists who hope to build a statue of the devil next to a monument of the Ten Commandments by Oklahoma’s Capitol building have unveiled their proposed design.
The Satanic Temple, a New York-based organisation who describe themselves as “the most active satanic organisation in the world”, applied for a permit to erect a monument of Satan next to the Ten Commandments memorial.
Read the rest of this article here.
Watch the video from the group’s Indiegogo fund raising site, where, with 10 days to go, they’re already 10% above their goal.
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The Roman Jesus Hoax
From Joe King: Christ, will they ever stop picking on the guy?
Scholar Claims Jesus Was a Roman Hoax
by Benjamin Radford
news.discover.com
October 11, 2013
A historical scholar claims to have found evidence proving that the story of Jesus as described in the New Testament is a fiction, and that historical claims about Jesus were actually created by Roman aristocrats to control the poor.
According to a news story in The Independent:
“Joseph Atwill, who is the author of a book entitled “˜Caesar”s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus”, asserts that Christianity did not begin as a religion, but was actually a sophisticated government propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire.”
Atwill”s take on Jesus is of course not new. In 1844 Karl Marx famously declared religion as the opiate of the masses. History is filled with skeptics, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics and other doubters who have questioned religious doctrine and dogma. Continue reading “The Roman Jesus Hoax”
Russian Police Intolerance for Pasta Cooking Implements
8 ‘Pastafarians’ Detained in Moscow During Unsanctioned ‘Pasta Procession’
RIA Novosti
August 18, 2013
MOSCOW, August 17 – A “pasta procession” by the Russian followers of the not-so-serious Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was dispersed in Moscow on Saturday by riot police and Orthodox activists, the prankster movement said.
The Moscow police press service told RIA Novosti that eight “Pastafarians” were detained for “attempting to hold an unsanctioned rally.”
The Church, that also calls its flock Pastafarian, was created in 2005 by Bobby Henderson, a self-described “hobo” from Oregon, according to the movement”s website.
Pastafarians wear sieves on their heads, worship The Flying Spaghetti Monster and believe that their religion was founded by pirates, their website says. They consider every Friday a religious holiday and do not take themselves seriously, it says. Continue reading “Russian Police Intolerance for Pasta Cooking Implements”