Many scholars, including philosopher Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, have documented the emergence of a new vision of western societies in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and the growth of modern nation states. Societies were no longer seen by most of their citizens as kingdoms under God but as societies of mutual benefit in which citizens use their rational minds to cooperate and improve their lives. When religions stood in the way of this by denying individual liberty and pleasure and by asserting that the purpose of life should be transcendent rather than earthly well-being, religions themselves became anti-social and even immoral.
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Discourses on Liberty: Images of Freedom: Georgist Political Economy: We Can Have It All: The Beauty of Value Capture - 0 views
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Note: Today marks the start of our series "Images of Freedom." In this lead, Edward Miller discusses the virtues of Georgist political economy, and how structural inequality, especially through land value, can be a threat To liberty.
BANKING ELITE Revealing quotes from those who know - 0 views
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson 1816
Glenn Greenwald Explains How The Law Is Used To Destroy Equality & Protect The Powerful - YouTube - 0 views
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David Graeber: On Playing By The Rules - The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet « naked capitalism - 0 views
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Just a few months ago, I wrote a piece for Adbusters that started with a conversation I'd had with an Egyptian activist friend named Dina: All these years," she said, "we've been organizing marches, rallies… And if only 45 people show up, you're depressed, if you get 300, you're happy. Then one day, 200,000 people show up. And you're incredulous: on some level, even though you didn't realize it, you'd given up thinking that you could actually win. As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across America, and even the world, I am suddenly beginning to understand a little of how she felt.
American Soldiers speak out against the wars and accuse the government or crimes - YouTube - 0 views
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Listen to and SUPPORT those American Veterans that are now AWAKE and MAD AS HELL!! Original maker of this video is http://www.youtube.com/user/StopTheRobbery2 http://www.ivaw.org/about/why-we-are-against-wars http://www.ivaw.org/ I don't think everyone should just comment. I think everyone should re post this video over and over until 1 Billion on the internet have watched this video. End the war by re posting this video. God bless the World and its people with peace and humanity.
The Path Not Taken - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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There were alternatives to the economic doctrine that championed bank bailouts and mass suffering from the public. Look at Iceland.
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Just Move Property profounds the most trusted and guaranteed rents to all those looking for buying a new house in this area. Rent in Bethnal green is highly reasonable and can be afforded by a middle class family. The best part is you get all the exquisite facilities like double bed, storage facilities, private garden and lot more at affordable cost.
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Religion is irrational, but so is atheism - opinion - 28 March 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views
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Why are some people religious and others atheists? Do we really know what we mean by atheism? Here is a very paradoxical clue
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