Posted on 02 October 2010. Tags: american adults, democrat, democrats, excerpt, Party, Percentage, percentage point, public c, rasmussenreports, record numbers, Republican, Republicans, Thing?
There’s much more about the republican and democrat numbers slumping in the article itself…
excerpt…
For the second month in a row, the number of Americans who identify themselves as Democrats has fallen to a record low.
In September, 34.6% of American Adults identified themselves as Democrats. That’s down nearly half a percentage point from a month ago, a full percentage point from two months ago, and is the smallest percentage of Democrats ever recorded in nearly eight years of monthly tracking.
At the same time, the number of Republicans slipped from 33.8% in August to 33.1% last month.http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c…
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Posted on 06 September 2010. Tags: bodily resurrection, brain cells, eighth century, excerpt, information, legalism, national enquirer, neal stephenson, Open, person, real histories, resurrection of jesus, sargon ii, Snow, snow crash
The following is an excerpt from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash:
“All people have religions. It’s like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we’ll latch onto anything that’ll fill that niche for us. Now, religion used to be essentially viral- a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next. That is the way it used to be, and unfortunately, that’s the way it’s headed now.
But there have been several efforts to deliver us from the primitave, irrational religion. The first was made by someone named Enki about for thousand years ago. The second was made by Hebrew scholars in the eighth century B.C., driven out of their homeland by the invasion of Sargon II, but eventually it was just developed into empty legalism.
Another attempt was made by Jesus- that one was hijacked by viral influences within fifty days of his death. The virus was suppressed by the Catholic Church, but we’re in the middle of a big epidemic that started in Kansas in 1900 and has been gathering momentum ever since.
…Anyone who takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection [of Jesus] is a myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories were written. It’s so National Enquirer-esque, don’t you think?”
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