December, 1995
- Calendar Quotation
- It may be that ministers really think their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine their croaking brings spring. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Promo:
- You Are Invited To A Party! (Solstice Party)
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- Quotation
- God is the asylum of ignorance. -- Spinoza
- Promo for Atheist Centre:
- Fourth World Atheist Conference
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- The Philosophy of Atheism (Joseph Lewis)
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- A letter from Lavanam
- The Likelihood of God -- by Richard Dawkins
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- Atheism on the Radio -- by Kevin Horn (Tom Leykis)
- An Atheist's Invocation -- Jim Cox (Suppose that you were asked to give an invocation.)
- Religious Equality Amendment (the Christian Coalition has unveiled its "Contract with the American Family.")
- Magic Tree -- by J. D. Bell (Every week thousands of faithful [California] Catholics are flocking to an oak tree)
- "devils, gods & you" -- poem by Thad Cogito
- Book Review: "God: The Ultimate Autobiography" -- by Jeremy Pascall
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- Seduction of Fundamentalism
- "Jerry's Q&A" by Jerry Billings:
- Religious people sometimes call Atheism a negative belief.
- Can you counter this accusation?
- What are some important aspects of Positive Atheism?
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- Opiate of the Opiated (patron saint of drug dealers)
- God Will Provide, Yup! (he was certain God would provide for his rescue)
- Swine Before Pearls (pig wrestling event at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church Roundup)
- Death Warmed Over (Church wants to use the heat from the crematorium to warm other buildings)
- Mother Mary Comes To Me (nabbed by [falling statue of] the Virgin Mary)
- Our deities can beat up (ashes of the woman fell on the floor -- medicine men preform cleansing ceremonies evangelical Christians prayer session to remove the effects of the Indian ceremonies)
- Roadmap Of Pain (Little 6-year-old tortured to death mother thought daughter possessed by the devil)
- Cleansing Ceremony II (negligently causing the death of his 5-year-old son needed to be "purified" enemas)
- Was it II Timothy 2:11-12? (the two disagreed over his interpretation of a passage from the Bible)
- Or was it Exodus 22:18? (Witch-doctors fished a crocodile in pants and "lipstick" out of a pool set it ablaze, saying it was a witch)
- Promo:
- CRT Winter Solstice Party (Come celebrate Winter Solstice)
November, 1995
- Calendar Quotation
- "Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods." -- Lucretius (98 55 bce)
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- It's the same story -- again and again (The "nice baby sitter" whom the parents had met at their Lake Oswego church)
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- Quotation:
- "It is usually argued that we need religion in order to get humanity to behave and work together. All evidence is to the contrary. Religion has not notably improved human behavior. The pagan
Romans were far kinder than the Inquisition Christians. Nor has religion united Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or Jews. It has divided them. In fact, religion will never unite them, because religion requires that they share the same beliefs, without
offering any reliable evidence that their ideas are correct. Reason, on the other hand, is the only thing that can unite people of diverse opinions. Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence
is lacking. Religion will never do that."-- Richard C. Carrier, Jr.
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- Out of the mouths of babes (ACLU kids)
- Josh Berger
- Deborah Weisman
- Autoeroticism (because of religion-induced sexual repression, he developed relationship with family car)
- Oxford Suit (Joel Ford against Oxford University Press, which publishes the principle edition of the Bible, based on hearsay oppresses blacks and gays)
- Our Father (Church of England diocese fired Rev. after he admits he does not believe in God)
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- Was Adolf Hitler an Atheist? by Cliff Walker and others (No, he was a Roman Catholic)
- Promo:
- CRT may be moving, but where?
- Friday Volunteer Needed
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- The Abimelech Society (they steal Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms [from a Canadian Humanist newsletter; later abridged for the National Bible Week Poster)
- Hot and Heavy Hymnals (modern hymns rife with double entendres)
- Vintage Jail Reform (Prison authorities agreed to let a "devout Episcopalian" take sacramental wine during Eucharist services)
- Sauvie's Island Parish? (Twenty Pentecostalists, all completely naked)
- Promo:
- Entertainment Books Still Available
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- Settlement Halts Mandatory Religious Substance Abuse Program (the Karl Holton School, a California Youth Authority [CYA] facility in Stockton)
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- Promo:
- What Are We Going To Do? -- Jerry Billings
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- Menendez Trickery by Dan Whitcomb (Supernatural elements in the Menendez trial)
- Give us a brake! (bulldozer accidents in northern Iceland were being caused by malevolent elves)
- Doctor, Wife Awarded Millions (A federal jury ordered three anti-abortion groups and their leaders to pay )
- Progress (The Shell Oil logo and the golden arches of McDonald's were recognized [by more than] the Christian cross.)
- Falwell Arms The Opposition (Moral Majority does not open meetings with prayer: group too diversified: "Which prayer would we use?.)
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- Two of three? Satan!? (Two out of three Americans believe in the existence of Satan)
- Jerry's Q&A ("What are atheists' kids missing without religious training?" "Can we convey honesty to our children by teaching them myths and falsehoods?" -- by Jerry Billings
- God's Orders (Killer of Yitzhak Rabin acted "on God's orders")
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- Religion for the hell of it -- Robert Anton Wilson
October, 1995
- Calendar Quotation
- "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand." -- Bertrand Russell
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- Entertainment Books Available
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- Quotation
- Appraise the Lord! Tax Church Property!
- Your Center for Rational Thought is always going to need funds to operate .
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- Morality Without God -- by Chapman Cohen
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- Human Sacrifice Has Been Legalized by Greg Irwin
- Promo
- Center Announces Weekly Meetings
- Important Notice of New Schedule
- Notable Quotes: Gerorge Bush; Archie Bunker; Robert Packwood; Franz Bibfeldt.
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- The Biblical Position On Women by Dennis McKinsey
- Barbie Fatwa ([Islamic Fundamentalists] issued a fatwa against the Barbie doll)
- Goatish Market (stock brokers led ten goats through the Karachi Stock Exchange)
- School Prayer (Wetton demonstrated the school's Christian discipline techniques by forcing the girl to strip and submit to a paddling while reciting the Lord's Prayer.)
- That Special Touch (Re: Pervert Pastor: "He is well-liked and well-respected here, and he has touched a great many people.")
September, 1995
- Calendar Quotation
- By the efforts of theise infidels, the name of God was left out of the Constitution of the United States. They knew that if an infinite being was put in, no room would be left for the poeple. -- Robert
Ingersoll, on Paine, Franklin, and Jefferson.
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- Hats off to Nancy Powell!
- Polls show that 78 percent of the population agree that consensus is the best way to find the truth. -- by Jerry Billings [later admitted, by its author, Jerry Billings, to be a hoax]
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- Robert Green Ingersoll -- Our Infidels & Thomas Paine
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- Shelly Shannon: "One of the more godly women in our nation today"
- The Church of England's Easter advertising this year contained no reference, in picture or word, to a crucifix.
- Sounds More Realistic: Genuine Student Bible Bloopers
- Story: "What's God gonna do with a dead cat?"
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- Christian Broadcasting Network saves East Coast from Hurricane Felix? from c.c.watch
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