Religious people of any kind should watch this movie in 10 parts, it’s a really powerful story.

(Aanhangers van Jomanda en co moeten deel 9 eens bekijken)

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I found a new hero http://www.youtube.com/user/ZOMGitsCriss 2/110 (subscribed!)

Religious people still don’t understand that religion, magic and other nonsense is totally incompatible with schools.

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions (such as mysticism 5/1,163, myth, or the arts) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument 1/71. ^6/811

In schools we try to teach the fruits of 2500 years of accumulated knowledge based on facts. We try to prepare them for a career in accumulating and creating more knowledge later in universities.

This whole fuzzy grown-too-big cult of brainwashers must be kept as far as possible from our youth. We must not confuse them with all kinds of ancient magical pre-historic sacrifice based nonsense.

One of the things I think religious people fail to understand is that "science" is like open source programming… it is not one person with an idea and *plerk* we write it down and it stays fixed for 2.500 years… It are hundreds of thousands of people all adding little pieces, writing papers, finding bugs, finding improvements during thousands of years. You can not point to 1 person e.g. "Darwin" from one specific science. You have then to look at hundreds of thousands of persons in thousands of sciences all contributing to our accumulated knowledge base. There is no single person who writes "a book" and that is it. It is someone who writes a book but then 100 years follow with hundreds of thousands of articles and books either improving, discarding or supporting theories and expanding it in a large hierarchy of expanded knowledge. You can not take one individual out of it with a specific book at a specific moment and then let this single person represent … science… that is so stupid I can not even believe people do this.

I watched some more videos of her, I like it

Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’ – Telegraph     33K

As is now on all blogs and newspapers:

Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."
The announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D’Acosta.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_Of_The_Covenant 0/1,133 (where you can read a theory how it ended in Ethiopia)
• http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102119 4/205
• http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/06/indiana_jones_call_your_office_1.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink Submit
• http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=ark+of+the+covenant+revealed&date=2009-6-26&sa=X Submit

Of course it is not revealed. But if it ever floats up (if the artifact even still exists) then it will have a high impact on current religions, that’s what it makes so interesting.

According to pope Ratzinger, who had a long career as an internationally noted academic, serving as a professor 0/123 at various German universities Submit (Rabobank CEO Bert Heemskerk Submit studied under him).

Christianity must always remember that it is the religion of the "Logos." It is faith in the "Creator Spiritus," in the Creator Spirit, from which proceeds everything that exists. Today, this should be precisely its philosophical strength, in so far as the problem is whether the world comes from the irrational, and reason is not, therefore, other than a "sub-product," on occasion even harmful of its development or whether the world comes from reason, and is, as a consequence, its criterion and goal. The Christian faith inclines toward this second thesis, thus having, from the purely philosophical point of view, really good cards to play, despite the fact that many today consider only the first thesis as the only modern and rational one par excellence. However, a reason that springs from the irrational, and that is, in the final analysis, itself irrational, does not constitute a solution for our problems. Only creative reason, which in the crucified God is manifested as love, can really show us the way. In the so necessary dialogue between secularists and Catholics, we Christians must be very careful to remain faithful to this fundamental line: to live a faith that comes from the "Logos," from creative reason, and that, because of this, is also open to all that is truly rational.^{[20] 2/328}

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos 2/328

The impact now, is that there is apparently an object, the ark, which also speaks to people ergo speaks the word of God through an object.

It means that it directly goes in competition with the key concept of Christianity because… if there is, next to Jesus, also an object which acts as a telephone line to God … who knows what the next message though "persons who can hear it" will be.

ark of the covenant revealed, Jun 26, 2009 Submit
well…. where is it?

Back to the stone ages

Human sacrifice 1/45 was practiced by many ancient cultures. People would be ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease a god 8/479 or spirit 0/34. While not widely known, human sacrifices for religious reasons still exist today in a number of nations.

Some occasions for human sacrifice found in multiple cultures on multiple continents include:

• Human sacrifice to accompany the dedication of a new temple or bridge.
• Sacrifice of people upon the death 4/858 of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrificed were supposed to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.
• Human sacrifice in times of natural disaster. Droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. were seen as a sign of anger or displeasure by deities, and sacrifices were supposed to lessen the divine ire.

Some of the best known ancient human sacrifices were those practiced by various Pre-Columbian 0/1 civilizations of Mesoamerica 1/741. The Aztec 0/5 were particularly noted for practicing this on an unusually large scale; a human sacrifice would be made every day to aid the sun 4/1,309 in rising, the dedication of the great temple at Tenochtitlán Submit was reportedly marked with the sacrificing of thousands, and there are multiple accounts of captured Conquistadores 0/5 being sacrificed during the wars of the Spanish 2/1,926 conquest of Mexico 5/64.

Submit In Scandinavia 0/109, the old Scandinavian religion Submit contained human sacrifice, and both the Norse sagas 1/32 and German historians relate of this, see e.g. Temple at Uppsala 1/119 and Blót Submit.

There is evidence to suggest Pre-Hellenic Minoan 2/514 cultures practised human sacrifice. Sacrificed corpses were found at a number of sites in the citadel 1/40 of Knossos 2/433 in Crete 0/84. The north house at Knossos contained the bones of children who appeared to have been butchered. It is possible they may have been for human consumption as was the tradition with sacrificial offerings made in Pre-Hellenic Civilization 0/68. [1] Submit The myth of Theseus 1/505 and the Minotaur 0/130 (set in the labyrinth at Knossos) provides evidence that human sacrifice was commonplace. In the myth, we are told that Athens 3/51 sent seven young men and seven young women to Crete as human sacrifices to the Minotaur. This ties up well with the archaeological evidence that most sacrifices were of young adults or children Submit.

Submit Human sacrifice still happens today as an underground practice in some traditional religions, for example in muti 0/13 killings. Human sacrifice is no longer officially condoned in any country, and these cases are regarded as murder 1/27.

During the stone ages the pre-Egyptian nilotes Submit believed in eating humans including family to obtain special skills (cannibalism as can still be seen around the world). This was surplaced slowly by the cult of Osiris which "virtually killed a God to obtain the special skill of immortality. 3000 years later the Jews dropped this kind of sacrifice of Gods and humans when they left Egypt and wrote the Tora (old testament), unfortunately, 1400 years later, a new religion started adoring a human (who had been to Egypt) and believing again in sacrifice: it is needed to kill a God to obtain special skills.

Unfortunately, this belief we had all through the stone ages: that we need to sacrifice to obtain something is heard every day. "drink my blood, eat my flesh".

Virtual cannibalism lives unto this day in our society and has a profound influence on how we think. As long as we believe that spilling of blood is good then we will never reach paradise. Then we are not even "back to middle ages, but back to the stone age".

p.s. Mahalia Jackson still is awesome!

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Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ human evolution | Science | guardian.co.uk     305
missing link found: IDA. "This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum

Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ human evolution | Science | guardian.co.uk     305
missing link found: IDA. "This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years," said Dr Jørn Hurum