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Even among the world’s most famous atheists, the crisis of faith among Christians in Europe has been met with concern.

Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7085129.ece

Religion & Warfare

I had barely begun separating the teetering stacks of books dedicated to ancient and medieval warfare when Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod fortuitously happened to publish their three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, a massive 1,502-page compendium compiled by nine reputable professors of history, including the director of the Centre of Military History and the former head of the Centre for Defence Studies, of what amounts to a significant percentage of all the wars that have taken place throughout recorded human history.

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[T]he very large size of the sample set definitely provides enough detail for the purpose of determining what percentage of Man’s wars are caused by his diverse religious faiths with some degree of accuracy. At the risk of providing significantly more ammunition to those who argue that religion causes war and invariably cite 1) The Crusades, 2) The Wars of Religion, and 3) The Thirty Years’ War, here is a list of all the wars that the authors of the Encyclopedia of Wars saw fit to categorize as religious wars for one reason or another:

[LONG LIST OF RELIGIOUS WARS]

That is 123 wars in all, which sounds as if it would support the case of the New Atheists, until one recalls that these 123 wars represent only 6.98 percent of all the wars recorded in the encyclopedia.

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It’s also interesting to note that more than half of these religious wars, sixty-six in all, were waged by Islamic nations, which is rather more than might be statistically expected considering that the first war in which Islam was involved took place almost three millennia after the first war chronicled in the encyclopedia, Akkad’s conquest of Sumer in 2325 b.c.

In light of this evidence, the fact that a specific religion is currently sparking a great deal of conflict around the globe cannot reasonably be used to indict all religious faith, especially when one considers that removing that single religion from the equation means that all of the other religious faiths combined only account for 3.23 percent of humanity’s wars.

Vox Day, The Irrational Atheist, p. 103-106 [PDF]

Dopesmoker

Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Knarkpolitiken föder knarkare

http://www.expressen.se/ledare/isobelhadleykamptz/1.2081496/isobel-hadley-kamptz-knarkpolitiken-foder-knarkare

Cardinal Climax

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread575092/pg1

”What is really scary is that his forecast for 2010, and he’s been predicting this for years, is alarming to say the least. Late this summer there will be an astrological alignment so rare that some astrologers believe it happens once every 10,000 years. This alignment is known as a Cardinal Climax.”

The End of the World etc.

Intressant intervju, i synnerhet första kvarten eller så.

Lugnet

http://vesslan.com/page/8/

vesslan var ju lite rolig här och var.
intressantast är kanske att jag hittade vesslan på svd:s förstasida (?!).
rätt grova och icke-pk:iga serierutor.

Maskerad

http://vesslan.com/page/6/

begravnig i tibet

gore-varning.

http://nbtec.tumblr.com/post/844458843/burials-in-tibet

info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

BLEEEErRRK

oden = grey?

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kidnappningsdrama

ekorrungen är kidnappad av den dumma hunden..

(hittat på glp)

ilmavoimat

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlands_flygvapen

säg goddag..

Dad humens have to fight freedome!

Internets näst konstigaste video.

ur The way to the labyrinth av Alain Danielou

Time is only an illusion, a chain of separate moments in man’s journey through the everlasting present. As we travel along the spiral of life, there are moments when we come very close to other points of time, past or present, only to move away. Is our destiny foreseen, foreseeable? We only have a vague sense of it; but when we reverse the march of time and follow the unfolding course of our lives from old age back to childhood, a great many things begin to make sense and suddenly fit together. Chance is no longer a factor, nothing happens by accident. Childhood is the consequence of maturity, the culmination of the future. It is not a question of predetermination, simply a reality of the world. Every moment of our life exists simultaneously in the wondrous and divine substratum of eternity.

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Each of us lives several different lives. We can describe a man in many different ways, all of them contradictory; but we should never try to combine these portraits, incomplete as they may appear. Our spiritual destiny – the role each of us must play in the great comedy of the world – is dependent of our emotional, sensual, even our intellectual lives. Moralists are always led astray by their desire to connect these different aspects of man’s nature. We often find ourselves struggling against our fate, when it frightens us or seems too have a burden to bear. But there are times when we must be totally open and surrender to those mysterious inner forces that inspire our most irrational acts, sometimes in defiance of human law; for it is in those very actions that we most truly fulfill not only ourselves but the humble role we have each been assigned in a world whose ultimate design we cannot know.

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Our destiny – the part we are called upon to play in the world of men and in the history of our species – justifies the unique gifts we have been blessed with and the strange, otherwise inexplicable paths we have followed, which have led to what we are and to what we have achieved. As we reach different point on the spiral of life, and when the time is right for us to fulfill a specific part of ourselves and our destiny, certain patterns of though, of being, seem to repeat themselves – astrology can sometimes explain this. Each night we rediscover the independent world of dreams, each day our normal sphere of activity; but they are totally unrelated. The same is true of all the different aspects of our lives. I have never tried to become anything or anyone in particular. I have always given myself completely to the present moment, thrown myself into the widest range of activities. Yet it seems clear to me now that fate was waiting for me at every turn, that it used me and led me to play a certain role without my ever having desired or chosen it…