CONTENTS (identified to date):   

1.   Book Review: Witchcraze, by Anne Lewellyn Barstow

2.   Brett rants: on free speech, power and choices

3.   Brett continues: on the Witchcraze

4.   Peter responds: an economic theory   

5.   Newsclipping February 2, 1998

6.   Brett replies to Peter: veering off topic

7.   Newsclipping May 2, 1999

8.   The Witch Craze Timeline An example of how religion can become deadly as secular law. Disclaimer: this contribution to the liz library is provided as-is and without citations, and there are disputes among historians as to some of the facts presented.

9.   Newsclipping March 27, 2000

10. Newsclipping July 3, 2000

11. Who Cooked The Last Supper?, Rosalind Miles. "When man made himself God, he made woman less than human. 'A woman is never truly her own master,' argued Luther. 'Let them bear children till they die of it,' And from Buddha, 'The body of a woman is filthy and not a vessel for the law.' "

12. The Atheism Web

13. Probert Encyclopedia of Mythology

14. Virtual Reference Desk Encyclopedia of Mythology

15. The Chalice and the Blade, Riane Eisler.      

16. Addicted to Hate The story of the Phelps family and the
Westboro Baptist Church

17. Cognitive Dissonance

18. Struggles for Existence, notes from Prof. Hartung's class.

19. John Haigh, The Acid Bath Murderer "...I was nurtured on Bible stories.... If by some mischance I did, or said, anything which my father regarded as improper, he would say...: 'It will not please the Lord.' "

20. Women, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage "A historical account of the status of women... dedicated to all Christian women and men, of whatever creed or name who, bound by church or state, have not dared to think for themselves... "

21. The World of Richard Dawkins

22. Newsclipping June 19, 2005

23. Newsclipping August 8, 2005

24. The Eve of destruction, January 15, 2004, comment by Karen Armstrong

25. Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes "a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago" More.

26. Study: Religiosity and societal dysfunction September 2005

27. Guns don't kill people; religious nuts kill people December 2005

28. Evolution and Religion, Robin Marantz Henig in New York Times

29. Modern Day Witchunting in Ireland

30. Newsclipping February 13, 2008 Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft

31. Newsclipping April 24, 2008 Congo police arrest penis snatchers (witches)

32. Why Women Are Bound to Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective, by R. Elisabeth Cornwell, Ph.D.

33. Helen Alvare article Distorting reality and capitalizing on trendy fatherhood exaltation politics in order to promote Catholic church doctrine

34. Are you an atheist? (youtube)

35. Celebrity Atheist List

36. Slate article April 20, 2009: Why the WIcked Witch Isn't Dead, by Johann Hari

37. Newsclipping May 21, 2009 Child witches in the name of Jesus

38. Arachnoid.com

39. More later...

...I'm off to

... visit Rev. Huber 

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The Biography of a Dangerous Idea