December, 1996
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- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. -- H. L. Mencken
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- You Are Invited To A Party! (Solstice)
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- Atheism, the world's greatest need -- James Hervey Johnson
- New (Old) Meeting Format!
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- The Last Taboo -- by Wendy Kaminer
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- The Agnostic Christmas -- by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Ethics Without God, or God Without Ethics -- by Jerry Billings
- Religious Dress Code Becomes Law (The Islamic Court: "Those who shave like Elvis Presley, Sylvester Stallone, and the U. S. Marines will not go unpunished.")
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- How I Got Inclined Towards Atheism -- by Nobel Laureate Professor Francis Crick -- from What Mad Pursuit
- If you're like most of us -- Your CRT Membership is due!
- All people that on roads do drive -- By John Capon -- (new hymn book: Road Safety Service and Hymns)
November, 1996
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- Interviewer: Did the study of anthropology later color your writings?
- Vonnegut: It confirmed my atheism, which was the faith of my fathers anyway. Religions were exhibited and studied as the Rube Goldberg inventions I'd always thought they were. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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- Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Such a Deal! (Entertainment 97)
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- An Atheist With Gandhi -- by Gora -- Chapter IV -- My First Interview With Gandhiji
- The Good Old Days? -- Americans More Church-Going Than Ever -- by Richard Morin
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- Back to the good old days? -- Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia -- by Thomas Jefferson -- August 4, 1818
- Can we talk? -- by Lanny Swerdlow
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- Are Biblical Christians Really Moral? -- (source unknown)
- The Meaning and Value of Freethought -- by Chapman Cohen
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- Dilbert Comic
- Matt. 5:30: Out of context? (cut off the hand because he believed it to be possessed by the devil hospital was negligent in not asking his family to overrule his decision)
- Been in strange hands? -- You're in good hands (insurance . policies to cover people worried about alien abduction)
- Thus saith Balaam's ass (woman's dog told him )
- Providence Proven! (multiple sclerosis abruptly halted when lightning struck her house)
- Acts 5:1-11 penalty reduced (systematically removed all $20 bills from collection plates)
- Big Mac(TM) Attack (the latest target of religious prohibition the Big Mac Exodus 23:19 -- "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk")
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- Hanukkah Stamp -- Post Office Waffles
- Rewriting of History by Christians -- by Madalyn Murray O'Hair
October, 1996
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- I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -- Susan B. Anthony
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- Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist -- by Albert Einstein
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- The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Drawing A Blank (Your news about CRT events goes here)
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- Gandhi's Revolutionary Personality -- by Lavanam
- Welcome International CRT Members!
- Space Nazis? (a 60-foot swastika was carved in the middle of a 30-acre field)
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- Beware all destructive group dynamics -- by John Goldhammer -- author of "Under the Influence: The Destructive Effects of Group Dynamics"
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- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -- by Thomas S. Vernon
- A pleasant tale -- by Mark Twain -- from "Letters From The Earth"
- Agencies Duped (Quadro Corp. Fraud: a plastic "illegal-drug finder" with an antenna on it for $8,000 each)
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- Catholic Charities admits to Partnership with Government
- Skinner Butte Cross; Religionists "In Denial" Over State-Church Entanglement?
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- Bogus Quotes -- by Richard S. Russell -- Atheists and Agnostics of Wisconsin
- Double Standard -- by Ian Rowan
September, 1996
- Calendar Quotation
- ATHEIST:
- Aware
- Truthful
- Honest
- Ethical
- Independent
- Skeptical
- Thinking
- HUMANIST:
- Happy
- Unafraid
- Moderate
- Analytical
- Natural
- Inquiring
- Sensible
- Tolerant
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- Ten Irrational Ideas -- by Albert Ellis
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- Higher Powerless -- bumper sticker
- Negative, Positive, Is There a Difference? -- Jerry
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- Why I Am Not a theist -- by Kevin Jarrett, age 17
- Annunciation (concentric rainbows appeared around the sun in honor of Kim Jong-Il's 54th birthday)
- Salvation by the slice: Church Lures Kids in Bait-and-Switch Scheme (Massachusetts church which allegedly lured youngsters into bizarre, immersion-style baptisms with offers of pizza and a good time)
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- Einstein: "God does not play dice"
- What Happened to Madalyn, Jon, and Robin? -- by Jerry Billings
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- Governor Kitzhaber -- No Comment: (Office Of The Governor State Of Oregon Proclamation Christian Heritage Month)
- The Fundamentalist LEFT!?
- Bingo! (a Catholic Church's large bingo board fell over on her spontaneous orgasms )
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- Josh Mcdowell's Charade -- by Gordon Stein, Ph.D.
- Ole' Tom Cat -- poem by Erwin L. Bailey
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- Letter -- James Archer (On the Wings of a Dove by Nicolas Humphrey)
- Letter -- Mark Rogan ("Fig Tree Enigma" and the backlash articles)
- Weird science kills career (Courtney Brown uses the technique of "remote viewing" to travel visually through space and time, to observe other galaxies, and to talk with Jesus)
- Weird Science Ruins Lives (John J. Ford, Joseph Mazzuchelli, Edward Zabo believe a UFO crashed on Long Island in 1995)
- That Makes it True! ("I am innocent! I promise! I swear on the Bible!")
- Those Family Values (Baptist preacher Don McCary 13 sex offenses against four teenage boys
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- Clarence Darrow -- by Art Thomas
- Catholic Consistency (Two girls at Mount St. Mary Academy not permitted at their graduation ceremony barring pregnant stu dents. Girls who had abortions not barred)
- Fundamentalist Fun (Self-Flagellation celebration of the 7th century saint Hussein; "disposable circumcision device")
- He's a Good (Book) Sport (Gabel Taylor prevailed in Bible-quoting contest, shot by loser)
- Where stories come from (a story accepting the claim of local singer "Danny Boy," is the reincarnation of Jesse Garon Presley)
- Where bums come from (First Congregational Church in Akron, Ohio eject squatter Jim Dunn)
August, 1996
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- "If Jesus were all that he's cracked up to be, then we wouldn't even need Jesus." -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
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- One of a kind? Not for much longer! (Thomas Paine Coffeehouse)
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- The pew cannot reply to the pulpit -- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Portland Atheists Believe in Miracles
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- Marjoe Gortner -- by Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman -- from the 1978 book SNAPPING: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
- On Being Civil -- by David C. Noelle -- San Diego Association of Secular Humanists
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- The Dine And Navajo Yeibichai Initiation: A Ritual Reality Check -- from The Navajo of the Painted Desert -- by Walter Bateman
- The Imitation of Christ (candidate offered to kneel and wash the feet of any lawyer in the county "an act of faith")
- Rock & Roll Heaven (First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine)
- Rock & Roll Hell (Church of Kurt Cobain)
- Bertrand Russell on Tolerance -- from The Quotable Bertrand Russell -- edited by Lee Eisler
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- Restaurant Closed (officials closed a Mexican restaurant operated by the California-based Church of the ABC of Abraham "semen is not a food and cannot legally be served as a condiment in restaurants in California.")
- Once For Each Apostle (stabbed his wife a dozen times because she refused his orders to read the Bible)
- Chinese Hell Notes -- by Chris Shappell (Even before the development of money, people have been looking for ways to provide financially for the dead)
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- Revealed Religion & Morality -- by Thomas Paine -- -from "Age of Reason" Part II
- He sells 'em, too! ($6.95 Saint Joseph statues a belief that an upside-down Saint Joseph buried in the lawn will bring a quick and lucrative sale)
- Anybody Can Do It! (best-seller, "Conversations with God" he wrote questions on a legal pad and then heard God giving the answers, which he also wrote down)
- "It" made me do it ("Something came into the room. It was not a person. It was like a color. Me and it, whatever it was, we both had the gun.")
July, 1996
- Calendar Quotation: Bible Bathroom Humor
- Thus Saith the Lord: And it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt cover that which cometh from thee: For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp -- Deuteronomy 23:13-14
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- Fed up with fish? Federal-Reserve graffiti?
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- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. -- Thomas Jefferson
- Rational Thought Goes Online
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- Alcoholics Anonymous: America's State Religion?
- N.Y. Court Lets Inmate Refuse Alcohol Program -- by James Barron
- Rational Recovery Founder Jack Trimpey Responds
- Alcoholics Anonymous: A Religion In Denial -- by Cliff Walker
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- c.c.watch: Still Painting His Face and Traveling at Night, for the Republican Party -- by Paula Xanthopoulou
- Where Church Equals State (militant Muslims )
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- The Different Religions Received Into That State -- by Thomas Jefferson
- My Short Interview With Richard Dawkins -- by Lanny Swerdlow
June, 1996
- Calendar Quotation
- If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
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- CRT Members, More Than Memberships, Are Needed
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- Cliff Walker's Monthly Column
- The world came first and gods came later. -- atheist proverb from ancient India
- CRT, "Critical Thinker" go online
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- Controlling the Human Spirit: The Inquisition and Slavery -- from the book The Dark Side of Christian History -- by Helen Ellerbe
- In Memoriam: Ella Opdal lost her son, Wayne Larsen, 49, from AIDS last month
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- The Big Debate (You Can Trust a Christian to be a Christian, but darned little more) -- by Jerry Billings
- Who's Next? the march to save Lanny's club
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- We Become Atheists -- by Gora -- Chapter XVI -- Are They Outrageous?
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- Fun With Rubber: Jerry's Hobby (a unique rubber stamp is on the market)
- Heard of everything yet? (Christian nudists)
- Let's Play House! (ex-pastor [molestor] sentenced to house arrest -- in the same house where the girl lives)
- Whatever Works! (diesel-soaked cross-burning violates local air pollution laws)
- Hitler Baptized (those wacky Mormons have, by a post-mortem church ritual, baptized Adolf Hitler into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
- Ferret in a Vicar's Cassock (A ferret raced up a vicar's cassock as he knelt in prayer)
May, 1996
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- "The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments -- of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue -- are complete skeptics in religion." -- John Stuart Mill
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- Scalia: Proud to be a Cretin
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- The divorce between church and state should be absolute -- James A. Garfield
- Wanna come to church with us? (Debate announcement)
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- On the Wings of a Dove by Nicolas Humphrey from his book "Leaps of Faith"
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- Informal Fallacies by Theodore Schick, Jr. & Lewis Vaughn from "How To Think About Weird Things"
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- Science, Religion, Politics, Law, and Education by Tim Berra -- from the book Evolution and the Myth of Creationism part 4 of 4
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- Is God a Dope? or Just Plain Clumsy? by Robert Anton Wilson
- Pol Caught With Prostitutite (A state lawmaker who earned a perfect rating from the Christian Coalition of Florida admitted buying sex from prostitutes after being caught with one in his truck in a shopping center parking lot)
- God's Privilege (Thieving Postal worker Douglas C. Yee to God: "I continue to petition you to conceal this matter.")
- Believer Insane (claimed a preacher put a voodoo curse on her was found innocent by reason of insanity)
- Reach Out & Hex Someone (Communications giants AT&T, MCI and Sprint are instruments of the devil)
April, 1996
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- "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't undertand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand." -- Mark Twain
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- Reasons to Fear the Religious Right -- by Rita Spillenger, Executive Director, ACLU of Arkansas
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- The government ought to stay out of the prayer business. -- Jimmy Carter
- Repeat of a sellout! Cinco de Mayo River Cruise!
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- King of the Jews by Hyam Maccoby
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- Science, Religion, Politics, Law, and Education by Tim Berra -- from the book Evolution and the Myth of Creationism part 3 of 4
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- Atheists Reserve Site of Easter Observance (etc.)
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- Where it Belongs! (indestructible copy of the Holy Bible on the moon)
- Same Cross, Next Year (fourteen people were nailed to crosses in Good Friday rituals)
- The Monsignor Made Me Do It (embezzling from the Roman Catholic Diocese)
- Avoiding Religious Solicitors
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- A "State Of Yokels"? Again!? (Tennessee Senate considers legislation to fire any teacher who presents evolution as fact)
- No Meeting Prayer (Yamhill County Commissioner dropped plan to start each meeting with prayer)
- Hillary studies Islam (First Lady has become an "eager student" of Islam)
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- Your CRT Membership May be Expired!
- Hoodoo Cloaked as Science (communicates telepathically with dogs)
- More Religion in Disguise (Most Americans think spiritual faith has healing power)
- Pray for a Mistrial (In a courtroom prayer, potential jurors heard a minister urge the guilty to "step up to the plate of justice" and ask that they be made to pay for their sins)
March, 1996
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- "Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated." -- Immanuel Kant
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- "Fair Property Taxation" Initiative Placed On Colorado Ballot
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- In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of people. -- James Madison
- Get ready for CRT's annual Cinco de Mayo River Cruise!
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- The Church Takes Over: The Dark Ages (500 1000 C.E.) by Helen Ellerbe from The Dark Side of Christian History
- I've Heard This One Before (space aliens made him commit the crimes)
- Marketing Strategy (gas station in received an official blessing by Catholic Cardinal Roger M. Mahony; Father of Russian Orthodox Church blessed the Coca-Cola plant in Moscow)
- Call Bunk Busters! (New York City "psychic house cleaner" by neutralizing the evil auras)
- True: God Won't Be Mad (Christian on bombing abortion clinics "God won't be mad at us if we drop four or five buildings")
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- God Gets Nine Months (legally changed his name to Ubiquitous Perpetuity God)
- Obey Commandments (Tennessee state Senate voted 27-1 for a bill that urges homes, businesses, churches, and schools to post the commandments and observe them)
- Commentary: Hoaxes Are Religious Right Cottage Industry -- by John Young, Cox News Service
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- They're Back!! (The Alabama Board of Education voted to require science textbooks to have a disclaimer telling students that evolution is "just a theory")
- Bet you weren't ready for that (welcoming party to greet eight spaceships)
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- Science, Religion, Politics, Law, and Education by Tim Berra -- from the book Evolution and the Myth of Creationism part 2 of 4
February, 1996
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- The Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky) -- by Joe Hill (sung to the tune of Sweet Bye and Bye)
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- Quote: I would like to call your attention to an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble. It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property. -- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President
- Do You Have a Mind Virus? by Richard Dawkins
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- What we need is not the will to believe, but the will to find out. -- Bertrand Russell
- Get ready for CRT's annual Cinco de Mayo River Cruise! Details next month!
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- Spooky Presidential Coincidentia (Ann Landers had just reprinted, for the zillionth time, a list of chilling parallels between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.)
- God and Atheism -- by B. C. Johnson (from The Atheist Debater's Handbook)
- Book Review: From So Simple A Beginning: The Book Of Evolution -- by Philip Whitefield
- McQueen left money to Gaylor's group -- Wisconsin State Journal December 30, 1995
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- Atheists vs. VFW? -- Jerry Billings
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- Science, Religion, Politics, Law, and Education by Tim Berra -- from the book Evolution and the Myth of Creationism part 1 of 4
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- Churches to be Taxed!? (a proposed [Colorado] citizens' initiative)
- Subpoena the Dead (Judge permitted "testimony" from a man dead 500 years presented by channeler Trina Kamp, who contacted "him" from the witness stand after the courtroom lights were dimmed)
- Chiropractor From Hell (put his mouth over her right eye, sucked on it, stabbed her neck with an acupuncture needle, and began reading aloud from the Bible)
- A Prayer is Answered -- letter from Howard Thomas, 7480550 Oregon State Pennitentiary
January, 1996
- Calendar Quotation
- I am a perfect specimen of the human race in that I am perfectly human. -- Cliff Walker
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- We Have Arrived! (when all is said and done, you did it.)
- Have you renewed your membership?
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- What Does It Mean? Or Does It?
- Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. -- Gora
- Another successful fund raiser under our belts! (Entertainment Books)
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- Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher -- by John J. Kessler, Ph.D., Ch.E.
- Did You Find the Candlestick? (Nancy)
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- RR offers alcoholics wry, sobering alternative to AA -- by Elizabeth Mehren, The Los Angeles Times, 1992
- The following ad appeared in the Classifieds (THANK YOU God, Jesus, Mary, the Holy Spirit, all the saints & angels)
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- The Creationist Challenge in Schools -- by ZoAnn Lapinsky (a compromise position both felt they could accept. That position was teaching the scientific method to the students)
- Atheist Awakening -- by Gora
- Letter: Finding Reality Online (Yeehar!)