As promised here are the newly revealed codes explaining my calling to become a dedicated ‘mental health exorcist’.
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Charles Darwin spoke last to his wife saying:
“I am not the least afraid of death – Remember what a good wife you have been – Tell all my children to remember how good they have been to me.”
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Take marriage for example. It may be a religious experience for some but for me it’s far more important than that.
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Earlier today I gave a brief interview for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) programme ‘The Current’. The topic was cognitive dissonance and the way that believers manage to maintain their beliefs in the face of absolute proof that they are wrong. You can listen to the programme here: http://t.co/1hNb5ac The specific theme was Harold Camping’s [...]
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St. Paul and the early Christians expected the world to end within their lifetimes. Nobody could possibly be so silly in the 21st century – or could they?
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Just an update. It’s now over 7 hours since Harold Camping’s predicted earthquake should have hit Australia. Still no mention of it on the news or via tweets from Australians on Twitter. Any thoughts on what is holding up God’s schedule, Mr. Camping?
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Harold Camping is a fundamentalist Christian & media evangelist who claims to have predicted the date of the ‘Rapture’. In other words he believes he has predicted the date when the faithful elite will be lifted up to Heaven whilst sinners will remain behind to face the coming apocalypse. Those who are left, according to [...]
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Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. It’s Darwin’s birthday. As a rule I don’t go in for generalised anniversaries. Many are merely marketing devices such as Valentine’s Day and Father’s Day and others such as Christmas and Easter seem to me to be nothing more than temporal markers for ‘somebody else’s rules’. But [...]
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The exorcism involved chaining her to a makeshift wooden cross (some reports suggest that she was actually nailed to the cross) and denying her food or water until her death three days later.
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