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Is an internet resource for noting examples of folly and fallaciousness in religion throughout the world. These articles are not from any one source nor do they have any ideology or point of view in common. The facts speak for themselves. It is not the intention of this website to harbor animosity towards any particular religion. Nor is it our intention to deny that religious people practice good as well as evil. However, religions are adept at publishing their own propaganda and tooting their own horn. Here you will find the dark side of religion they do not wish to acknowledge. This website stems from that philosophy known as Freethinking. Following is an excerpt from Wikipedia which explains this point of view. "Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that beliefs should be formed on the basis of science, logic, and reason, and should not be influenced by authority, tradition, or any other dogma. The cognitive application of freethought is known as freethinking, and practitioners of freethought are known as freethinkers. Freethought holds that individuals should neither accept nor reject ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason. Thus, freethinkers strive to build their beliefs on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any factual/logical fallacies or the intellectually-limiting effects of authority, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmatic or otherwise fallacious principles. Applied to religion, freethinkers have generally held that, given presently-known facts, established scientific theories, and logical principles, there is insufficient evidence to support the existence of supernatural phenomena." |