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5 Big Lies About the Phony 'War on Religion'

Sounds great, except for one tiny problem—the war they're railing about doesn't exist. They're not calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan or the abstract “war on terror.” The candidates claim that Obama and Democrats across the country are waging a “war on religion”-- and, of course, they're the “civilian casualties,” along with the rest of

Atheists know more about religion than the religious

Why is anyone surprised at the findings of a new survey of American religious knowledge, released last week by the Pew Forum, which demonstrate that atheists and agnostics know more about religion than the religious do? The only religious groups comparable to atheists in general religious knowledge are Jews and Mormons. Atheists even know more about Christianity than American Christians.

Dr. James David Manning, The Atlah World Missionary Church, calls this the “Trial of the Century” and the “Greatest Trial in American History.” He says the proceedings are not a mock trial and are permitted under the U.S. Constitution.

This series is one of the most fascinating series I have watched since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. This is a series of lectures from Joseph John Campbell's (a professor, mythologist, writer and lecturer) analysis of modern human evolution through comparative mythology and comparative religion.

I don't agree with some or part of his conclusions but I learned quite a bit from it and highly recommend anyone interested in history, mythology and self-knowledge to watch it.

For the ancient Chinese masters, political awakening was complementary to spiritual awakening. In the martial arts, they saw more than a tool for war, that ultimate form of political conflict — they also saw a vehicle for reaching a superior state of consciousness, of connection with the cosmos that would spontaneously mold a virtuous character for the warrior. They called it the state of “effortless action” (wu wei), and was considered to be indispensable for reaching sociopolitical harmony, peace and prosperity among peoples.

‘The Cleveland Show,’ a Fox animation comedy and spin-off of Family Guy created by Seth MacFarlane , recently “plugged” the phrase ’9/11 was an inside job’ at the end of its mock-”live” show. The character Cleveland slipped in the phrase after a laundry list of thanks and acknowledgments in the show’s wrap-up finale.

The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.

Julian Assange, who does not have an official home base and travels every six weeks, told the Australian current affairs program Dateline that immigration officials had said his passport was going to be cancelled because it was looking worn.

Another very ancient New Year
By Jon Sandifer.
Each year on 4 February, the world’s most ancient astrology, I Ching Astrology, celebrates the New Year.
This system first formulated over 5,000 years ago in the Tibetan Himalayas uses the Chinese solar calendar.

No religion: What was Lennon summoning? For starters, a world without "divine" messengers, like Osama bin Laden, sparking violence. A world where mistakes, like the avoidable loss of life in Hurricane Katrina, would be rectified rather than chalked up to "God's will." Where politicians no longer compete to prove who believes more strongly in the irrational and untenable. Where critical thinking is an ideal. In short, a world that makes sense.