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Originally posted by tomquinn
Yes,
It has happened at last "Give us all your money" all $23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 est. of it? It is needed for the "POOR and NEEDY" give it now or there will be ...........................
Prepare for the "END"
The UN will decide this week to ban Religion because of the Wars and Problems it causes around the world. It will vote this week on a resolution to outright ban all religions and sub-religions especially cults and extremists.
Goodbye all, hello "ARMAGEDDON"!!!
GOOHMP
An Atheist civil rights group condemned Friday's passage at the United Nations of a proposal for a global ban on "defaming" religion.
The measure, passed 24 -14 (nine abstentions) by the U.N. Human Rights Council called upon governments to "take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination including through political institutions and organizations of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion..."
www.americanchronicle.com...
Originally posted by uberarcanist
reply to post by Vipassana
Indeed. How many Muslim countries or Christian African countries would vote on such an idiotic bill? Here's a hint: 0.
Originally posted by Vipassana
Do you have a source for this information?
Such a resolution would surely be big news, and also extremely unlikely to pass.
this guy needs to be removed from ATS, hes making worthless threads all the time.
[edit on 27-10-2007 by Vipassana]
Minerva is displayed in front of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library as "Alma Mater."
Minerva is the name of the computer science server used by students at the Harvard Extension School.
Minerva is displayed to the East of University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Elliot University Center as a statue.
Minerva is featured on the seals and logos of many institutions of higher learning:
University at Albany, The State University of New York. Minerva is still venerated by seniors and their 'torch bearers' during a pre-graduation ritual called "Torch Night" there.
the University of Alabama
Union College, New York. Union College has also used Minerva as the name of their new academic and social "Third Space" program, the Minerva House System; and, also here, Minerva is the goddess of Theta Delta Chi.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, in Cambridge, Mass. The seal's principal figure is Minerva - a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to "advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people."
Minerva decorates the keystone over the main entrance to the Boston Public Library beneath the words, "Free to all." BPL was the original public-financed library in America and, with all other libraries, is the long-term memory of the human race.
Minerva is the Goddess of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Fraternity Brothers are known as Loyal Sons of Minerva.
Minerva is the patron of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the largest organization of Black women in the world. An image of Minerva sits atop the organization's crest.
Minerva is featured on the seal of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Minerva is displayed as a statue in the entrance to Main Building at Wells College in Aurora, NY.
Journals
Minerva is also a symbol of Kappa Kappa Gamma- a womens fraternity. she sits atop the crest of KKG.
Societies
According to John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), the third degree of the Bavarian Illuminati was called Minerval or Brother of Minerva, in honor of the goddess of learning. Later, this title was adopted for the first degree of Aleister Crowley's OTO rituals.
Minerva holds some sort of ritualistic significance for Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national social fraternity (link)