1794 - At the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio, General Anthony Wayne murders thousands of indigenous Native Americans, clearing the way for more hundreds of thousands more Indian deaths, and the largest land grab in the world's history.

1977 - The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft to invade the solar system, threatening ET with a phonograph record of human civilization.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Of all learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks."
-- H.L. Mencken

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1909 - The first race was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana.

1960 - The Russians sent two dogs into earth orbit in a satellite.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"I have always been reasonably leery of religion because there are so many edicts in religion, 'thou shalt not,' or 'thou shalt.' I wanted my world of the future to be clear of that."
-- Gene Roddenberry

The Pastor's sermon
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY

1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.

1966 - The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back to the U.S.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"The profession of the Christian faith is a system of the grossest hypocrisy, a fashionable villainy, a licensed swindle, cheat, and trick.

Never was the day, never, in all the tide of time, in which such mighty efforts were made to keep mankind in ignorance; never were any clergy on earth, Pagan or Papistical, so opposed to the diffusion of knowledge, so desperately afraid of it, and so bitterly hostile to it, as the Protestant clergy, both of the established church, and the dissenters of the present day, in this metropolis."
-- Robert Taylor

1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)

1988 - Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"No kingdom has ever had as many deadly civil wars as the kingdom of Christ."
-- Montesquieu, 1721

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1777 - American Colonists beat British Army in Battle of Bennington

1962 - Ringo Starr was picked to replace Pete Best as the drummer for the Beatles

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of god), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind,on account of religion, have done to themselves or to one another."
-- Matthew Tindal, 1730

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1896 - The Emporia Gazette published the editorial, "What's the matter with Kansas?"

1998 - Discovery Institute, a bible based organization that believes in this good, flat-earth and 10,000 yr olde universe, targets Kansas as a likely venue for pushing Intelligent Design and creationsim.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
-- George W. Bush

"In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations."
-- John McCain

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1873 - The first issue of Field and Stream magazine was published.

1888 - Oliver B. Shallenberger of Rochester, PA received a patent (#388,003) for the electric meter. Gaussian Fields, and electron Streams were now subject to electric bills.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
-- Benito Mussolini

From the CHurch of Ineffable Stupidity:

1818 Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights.

1831 Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
Quote:

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
-- Benjamin Franklin

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1879 - The first National Archery Association tournament began in Chicago, IL.

1918 - Regular air-mail service began between New York City and Washington, DC.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"Every denial of education, every refusal of advantages to women, may be traced to this dogma [of original sin], which first began to spread its baleful influence with the rise of the power of the priesthood and the corruption of the early Church."
-- Lillie Devereux Blake, 1883

From the CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1934 - Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time.

1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the America, opened.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

"All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book."

"I do not borrow ideas. I have a factory of my own."

"I do not believe in putting out the sun to keep weeds from growing."

"With soap, baptism is a good thing."

-- Robert G. Ingersol

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1869 - The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.

1991 - In Phoenix, AZ, nine Buddhists were found slain in their temple. Two teenagers were arrested for the crime.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea."
-- Alain, "On Religion," 1931

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.

1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"A religion, even if it calls itself the religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."
-- Sigmund Freud

from the CHURCH of INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1911 - Membership in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435.

1963 - Seven million dollars was stolen in Britain's Great Train Robbery by a gang of fifteen thieves.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
--Abbie Hoffman

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1928 - The U.S. dollar began to shrink. New bills, one third smaller than previous bucks, were issued by the U.S. Treasury Department.

1998 - A pair of major explosions near U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. "Clearly, this is a terrorist attack," U.S. State Department spokesman Lee McClenny said.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:

"We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back."
-- Amazing James Randi

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK

1973 - Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"In our windy world, what's up is faith, what's down is heresy."
-- Alfred Tennyson

after a day o' docs, Pastor Ag finally has a cast, tis time for:  
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1958 - The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND.

1988 - U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi of New York was sentenced to prison.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

This day in history:

1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies.

1982 - Georgia police arrest two men having sex in their own bedroom. The Sodomy Arrests eventually test the US Constitution.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
-- Adolf Hitler

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died. His successor was Adolf Hitler.

1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.

Coincidence? I think knot.

Always wear a seatbelt. Avoid speeding, drunk, red-light running, heavily medicated, out of control, assholes who aim disgustingly huge SUVs at you.
--Pastor Agnostic

From the Church of ineffable stupidity: