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   Witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods.   At the same timeContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "Religion and the Decline of Magic"”

Spirituality Before Religions: Spirituality is Unseen Science…Science is Seen Spirituality by Prof Kaba Hiawatha Kamene (Author), Nelson Ford (Illustrator)Read on KindleOrder Paperback/Hardcover   “Spirituality Before Religions, delves deeply into many ideas researched by many brilliant writers and scholars. My ultimate purpose is to synthesize these writings into a comprehensive study of ancient African Deep Thought with TepContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "Spirituality Before Religions"”

Said to have predicted 9/11, former US naval intelligence briefing team member Bill Cooper reveals classified information kept in secret government files since the 1940s. Cooper tells of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs. His lucid presentation of this information transcends partisan affiliations as he clearlyContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "Behold a Pale White Horse"”

This book is flying off the shelves! And for good reason! For as long as the idea of “miracles” has been in the public sphere, the conversation about them has been shaped exclusively by religious apologists and Christian leaders. The definitions for what a miracles are have been forged by the same men who foughtContinueContinue reading “The Case Against Miracles – Get It Now”

 Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine’s controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive itContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "The Age of Reason"”

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, book examining some of nature’s most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective.Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitiveContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True"”

  The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving recordsContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt"”

What is it like to be a preacher who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age – the phenomenon of clergy whoContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind"”

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you knowWhy should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology,ContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread"”