Month: November 2022
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History for Atheists: “How History is Done”
Tim O’Neill in general makes many well thought out posts on history. However this one is particilarly worth a read since it covers historiography, or in other words, how the study of history even works. For over seven years now I have used History for Atheists to debunk bad historical arguments, historical myths, pseudo history…
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Pagan Romans Claimed to Worship the God of Abraham
When looking at other religions, we Christians typically think in terms of ourselves worshipping the true God versus the heathens worshipping false gods. This is true to a large extent. However other religions often don’t just have our worldview but inverted. Most non-Christian religions don’t simply believe that their gods are real while our God…
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Priests of Democracy?
In the United States of America, the governor of the state of Florida named Ron DeSantis seems to regularly make the headlines these days. He recently supported what’s called the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” – a bill designed to ban critical race theory from schools. A few days ago, this bill was overturned by U.S. District…
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A Post for Remembrance (Veterans) Day 2022
On the 11th of November in the year A.D. 1918, the German Empire signed an armistice near the city of Compiègne. This armistice formally ended the ongoing Great War – later known as the First World War – that raged for four years (though it would officially end a year later (28 Jun. 1919) with…
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