1. The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Archive/Reviews)

... The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded that, in the main, Christianity was responsible. This new religion, Gibbon argued, caused Roman leaders to drop out of the public eye ...

2. Global Warming Skepticism
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... Stott, this pseudoscientific construct smacks of a new authoritarian religion "involving the use of what the physicist PH Borcherds has termed the 'hysterical subjunctive.' Indeed, for many, the myth has ...

3. Religion and Civilization
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Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is "a disease born of fear and [is] a source of untold misery to the human race."1 Russell's opinion has gained wide currency as the perception that Western civilization ...