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Monday, September 17, 2012
Religious Bigotry Finds Home in Archaeological Blogosphere
One member of the archaeological blogosphere has now insulted the religion of one of the US Presidential candidates. The basis for the attack is the opinion of a prominent UK atheist, who presumably thinks all other world religions are frauds too. But what would that atheist think about the secular religion of archaeology, what with its view that culture bureaucrats and archaeologists are gods with absolute rights to control everything old and a first commandment that there can be no meaning without archaeological context? I just wonder....
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