November 2011
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Christianization of Scandinavia
The Christianization of Scandinavia took place between the 8th and the 12th century.
Establishing Archdioces responsible directly to the Pope, in 1104 (Denmark), 1154 (Norway) and 1164 (Sweden).
Archeology suggests that the process took 150 - 200 years even in cental areas like Lovön near todays Stockholm (burial sites support this). Imagine more remote areas in a fledgeling...
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Atrocities By Numbers →
westernmystery:
More Americans dies from being fat in one year than the highest estimates of all the Witch Trials in Europe and America for over 250 years.
Siege of Antioch by Jean Colombe
Atheists like to scream at the top of their lungs about the atrocities due to “religion”.
Not only are very few of those atrocities actually a result of religion or belief as some isolated phenomena...
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Free To Be Stoopid
westernmystery:
I just saw a comment that an atheist is under no obligation to study or understand anything about religion to critisize it unless a theist proves the existence of Deity.
And on that note i will now write a detailed article critisizing Quantumphysics .
I dont know more than any other person about it, but i dont have to until a physicist proves an entire theory.
To use science...
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Stone Ship Settings
The Stone ship or ship setting was an early Germanic burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship. They are often found in grave fields, but are sometimes far from any other archaeological remains.
The stone ship at Anund’s barrow ...
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