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Sunday, December 29, 2013
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
Comedian Makes Up Story About Satanism, Becomes National Expert
5 Insane Scams That Should Have Failed (But Didn't) | Cracked.com
Any of you who were in a fundamentalist religion in the 1980s probably remember the Great Satanic Cult Scare. This article gives some great insight into how it started--it was a complete scam from the beginning! An interesting study into how lies can foster hysteria and orthodoxy.
Any of you who were in a fundamentalist religion in the 1980s probably remember the Great Satanic Cult Scare. This article gives some great insight into how it started--it was a complete scam from the beginning! An interesting study into how lies can foster hysteria and orthodoxy.
One would like to believe, in this Modern Era, Salem-style
hysteria would not occur. And yet it
does.
As this
article points out, human nature still contains within it the potential to
continue to believe something that has been proven false.
The first thing I remember is the McMartin preschool
case. I remember absolutely nothing
of the fundamentalists admitting the accuser had paranoid schizophrenia, or
that the accusations were implausible. I
remember it being used as a tool to scare members into huddling closer to the
cult. One defendant spent years in jail
prior to being acquitted.
The mess also had its dire consequences upon
psychiatry. “Recovered memory
therapy” did damage to countless people.
Critical thinking is surely one of the most important things
humanity can accomplish.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Jehovah’s Witnesses possibly guilty of hate crime
At the recent summer conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Silkeborg and Herlufmagle, speakers likened lapsed members to a deadly virus, snakes and contaminated soil that should not be mixed with clean soil.
The rhetoric was so strong that the movement may have breached article 266b of the Danish Criminal Code, under which “any person who publicly or with the intention of dissemination to a wide circle of people makes a statement or imparts other information threatening, insulting or degrading a group of persons on account of their race, colour, national or ethnic origin, belief or sexual orientation shall be liable to a fine, simple detention or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years”.
Read the rest at: Jehovah’s Witnesses under fire - dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre_sprog/English
Friday, February 8, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Going to college is like putting a gun to your head
What do you think? Is this typical of what a normal religions teach?
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