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Benjamin Creme

Benjamin Creme was a New Age lecturer, writer, and artist who claimed the Second Coming of "The Christ" happened in 1977 in the Himalayas, in the form of Maitreya this time instead of Jesus, and that Maitreya is now secretly living in London, England and awaiting the right time to reveal himself to mankind. His beliefs were drawn from theosophy and the writings of Alice Bailey, among others. He started a group called Share International to promote his beliefs.
In 1982, he placed full-page ads in newspapers around the world claiming "THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE," which was enough impetus to scare evangelical Christian writer Constance Cumbey into believing this "Christ" was possibly the Antichrist and writing a book to warn people.
Benjamin Creme also believed that crop circles are the work of UFOs and are linked to the Second Coming of The Christ, and cited as "proof" that crop circles started appearing around 1975, just as Creme started publicly teaching his woo about Maitreya, and many of them appear around London, where Maitreya allegedly now lives.
In 2010, some of Creme's followers identified the Maitreya as the British-born American economist after Patel's appearance on The Colbert Report. 
==External links==
*Official site of Share International
Category:New Age
Benjamin Rubin

Benjamin A. Rubin (September 27, 1917 – March 8, 2010) was an American microbiologist and inventor of the bifurcated needle. His invention is used in hundreds of millions of vaccinations around the world and played a key role in the World Health Organization's successful campaign to eliminate smallpox. Rubin received his BS in biology-chemistry from the College of the City of New York, his MS in biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and in 1947, his PhD in microbiology from Yale University. He also held patents in radiation devices, vaccines, steroid chemistry, and microbiology."Benjamin Rubin | Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
==Smallpox==
Smallpox has historically been one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Its origins are unclear but appears to have first arisen in ancient Egypt (1570–1085 BCE) before spreading to India and later Europe. Since then, it repeatedly ravaged different parts of the world in devastating outbreaks."History of Smallpox | Smallpox | CDC". www.cdc.gov. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020. During the 20th century as many as 300 million people were killed by it.Riedel, S. (2005, January). Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination. In: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings (Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 21-25). Taylor & Francis.Microbe hunters, then and now. Medi-Ed Press. 1996. p. 23. One of the first major steps in combating the disease was the invention of the smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner in 1792.
===Bifurcated needle===
In 1965, Rubin designed the bifurcated needle in conjunction with engineer Gus Chakros by grinding down the eyelet of a sewing machine needle, pushing the eyelet into a fork shape. The refinements Rubin made to his ground-sewing-needle design yielded the now-familiar bifurcated (fork-shaped) needle. He discovered that the small space between the tines could hold enough vaccine to inoculate a person with a just a few injections. Prior to his invention about two million people per year died from smallpox worldwide and treating against smallpox en masse was a difficult procedure that involved the use of expensive and unwieldy jet injectors. Unlike the jet-injector, Rubin’s needle was very cheap, costing less than $5 for a thousand needles. A bifurcated needle can be sterilized with boiling water or holding it over a flame so it can be continually reused. Furthermore, the patient's skin did not need to be disinfected beforehand. Finally, the bifurcated needle used substantially less serum, further cutting costs."Benjamin Rubin | Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-14."Heroes of Progress, Pt. 32: Benjamin Rubin". Human Progress. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
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Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush was an American physician and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.
He strongly believed in bloodletting (in his case, this meant removing up to 75% of the patient's blood), mercury, and colon cleansing. While his methods have been blamed for George Washington's death, his student was actually the only one who opposed more bloodletting. One source says:
He also created Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills" (a.k.a., "thunderbolts" or "thunderclappers"), which aside from an awesome name for a band, were an olde-timey "cure" for syphilis. The pills were in fact a potent laxative made from 50% mercurial compound, jalap root (Ipomoea purga) and chlorine.Pharmacy Fun Fact: August 14 (Aug 14, 2020) Pharmacy Times. These were given to Lewis and Clark's expedition for medicine, which also has helped modern historians to trace their route using scientific testing on what they left behind.Brown, David E. (6 June 1999). "What They Carried". New York Times.
Though he was an abolitionist, Rush believed in "scientific" racialism, and that blacks suffered from a disease called "negritude", which could be cured by becoming white. In Our Own Voices: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in the Mental Health System, Vanessa Jackson.
For quite a long time, the official seal of the American Psychiatric Association featured a profile of Rush due to his influential work on what he called "diseases of the mind". He was a proponent of the idea that mental illnesses are real as opposed to mental illness denial and believed they had a biological component, though his ideas were pretty far off about what exactly this was (he blamed abnormal circulation and humoural imbalances). He also had a prominent role in the reform of mental asylums and pioneered the disease model of addictions rather than seeing them as a moral failing. He supported treatments which today we would call horribly abusive (though common for the time). Perhaps due to his mixed legacy, the APA recently adopted a new logo which features a stylized brain with the Rod of Asclepius (the symbol of medicine that you've seen on ambulances and such). This is arguably unfair; Rush, like all people, was a product of his time, and while he held views that today are objectionable, what needs to be evaluated is not how good he was in comparison to ourselves but how much better he made society.
==See also==
*Drapetomania
==External links==
*Medical inquiries and observations, volume 4, which contains the full text of his Defence of Blood-letting as a Remedy for Certain Diseases. In PDF format.
*A Defence of Blood-letting, as a Remedy for Certain Diseases, an incomplete transcription, but it's in HTML format and easier to view.
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Benjamin Wiker

Benjamin Wiker is a Roman Catholic author and intelligent design advocate.
==Biography==
Wiker holds a Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Vanderbilt University, and is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.Benjamin Wiker, Senior Fellow - CSC He is best known for his book The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin (2009).The Darwin Myth by Benjamin Wiker is a Must Read He is the co-author with Jonathan Witt of a book advocating intelligent design, Meaningful World: How the Arts And Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature (2006) and has written another book arguing against atheism, Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (2008).
==Evolution==
Unlike most intelligent design advocates Wiker claims to accept common descent. He has written that he supports a form of theistic evolution based on the belief that God created the world to evolve and is guiding evolution.Presidential Scholar Dr. Benjamin Wiker Talks Secularism, Teleological Evolution However Wiker has used straight forward creationist arguments in some of his books.
==References==
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Bernard Haisch

Bernard Haisch is a German-born American astrophysicist and author. He is most well known for his "God theory" which is a form of pandeism.
==Scientific work==
Haisch is an astrophysicist and author of over 130 scientific publications. He is also known for developing a theory which proposes that a hypothetical "zero-point-field" may provide a physical explanation for the origin of inertia.Bernard Haisch Biography
==The God Theory==
Haisch claims that Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and other atheists are only partially correct in rejecting God and theism. He writes that there is an underlying intelligence built in to the universe itself which he terms "God".The God Theory In his book The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All (2006) he rejected theism and atheism and put forward his theory of pandeism, the belief that God became the universe.
Haisch rejects intelligent design and fully embraces evolution. His "God theory" relies on fine-tuned universe arguments and his ZeroPoint energy theory mixed with arguments from higher consciousness studies and mysticism.Review of "The God Theory" by Professor Richard Conn Henry Haisch has also written a sequel book titled The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing In Einstein, Darwin, and God (2010).Book Review: The Purpose Guided Universe – Author Bernard Haisch In the book Haisch writes there is purpose behind the universe and that this view is supported by evolution, Big Bang, discoveries in physics and mysticism. Haisch was influenced by Teilhard de Chardin and the perennial philosophy of Aldous Huxley.Article by Bernard Haisch
==Reception==
Even though Haisch is a scientist and has used evidence from quantum mechanics, Big Bang, Newton's laws, inflation theory, superstrings and many other scientific paradigms in an attempt to help explain his God theory he has also used some dubious and pseudoscientific material in his books such as advocating reincarnation and aliens.The Purpose Guided Universe Review
Christians and other religious reviewers have criticised the book as they claim Haisch's theory is incompatible with monotheistic religion.Mini Review: The God Theory by Bernard Haisch Others have described his "God theory" as a book for the average person dissatisfied with organized religion but also wanting something more beyond science.Book Review: The God Theory — Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All by Bernard Haisch His book has become popular amongst New agers and spiritual philosophers.Book Review by Mystical CoherenceUniverses, Zero-point Fields, and What’s Behind it All His book The Purpose-Guided Universe has also received some mixed to negative reviews by scientists as Haisch proposed that quantum theory, general relativity and natural selection were all created by the mind of God yet most scientists disagree with this view.A physicist finds God in cosmic harmonies by Marcus Chown
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Bernie

*Bernie Ecclestone: arrested in 2022 for illegally carrying a firearm while boarding a private plane from Brazil to Switzerland. Big fan of Hitler.
*Bernie Madoff: arrested in 2008 for fraud. Big fan of capitalism.
*Bernie Sanders: arrested in 1963 for civil disobedience. Not a big fan of capitalism without regulations.
*Bernie Spofforth: arrested in 2024 for instigating race accross in the United Kingdom. Not a big fan of reality.
Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings

Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings is a 2007 documentary purporting to show the 10 "best" (i.e. most inexplicable) UFO sightings. This was made by asking UFO enthusiasts for their 10 best/favourite cases and sightings, assigning them arbitrary point values and averaging to get a final list of 10. Science!
If you like your UFO documentaries on the unpolished side, look no further. The graphics have a late-90s Nintendo game feel. The interviews are an endless parade of wrinkly old men. The narrator sounds as if she's doing an impression of Dana Scully dosed with codeine, which renders it all but unwatchable. At one point, someone pronounces the word "nuclear" as "new-cu-lar". And there's plenty of awkward .
==Description==
The schlockumentary makes the usual claims. For instance, noting that if you shoehorn enough, "UFO" sightings actually go back to antiquity, but were simply misunderstood as miracles or demonic sightings. And totally not both phenomena being people trying to explain things they didn't understand in ways that made sense to people of the time.
When asked a question on why UFO sightings have increased so dramatically over the last half century, instead of proffering a sensible answer like "the rise in population", "the wider record-keeping" or "the more effective media", Stanton Friedman instead suggests that it's obviously aliens checking up on us in case we nuke them.Because the technology required to traverse the universe is no match for our A-bombs!
Incredibly, the "#1 best UFO sighting" is awarded to a 1957 report by the crew of an on a training mission out of in Topeka, Kansas, who said their aircraft was followed by a UFO for a distance of over 700 miles.
UFO skeptics (such as the actual US Air Force) long ago concluded that the RB-47 crew had tracked an airliner.http://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/rb-47-ufo.htm http://badufos.blogspot.com/2012/01/rb-47-encounter-of-1957-ufologys-best.html Despite this, Best Evidence treats it as if it's unsolved and very mysterious, and, apparently by their own admission, their best evidence for UFOs=aliens.
The film features the ubiquitous Stanton Friedman (who's cheerfully appeared in every UFO documentary made since the Boer War), alongside "UFO expert" Nick Pope, and several other equally earnest UFO proponents.
==External links==
*Best Evidence on Vimeo (free to watch in all its 47-minute glory)
*Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings on IMDb
==Notes==
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Bethlehem

Bethlehem is traditionally the birthplace of King David and later Jesus. has Jesus born in Bethlehem, and he is greeted by Magi, who followed the . In verse 6, Matthew explains that Jesus was born in Bethlehem to tie into . has Jesus born in Bethlehem, but He is greeted by shepherds. Here Joseph and Mary go to Bethlehem to abide by a census.
Bethlehem is also said to be the place of the , when King Herod the Great ordered all boys two years and younger slaughtered in an attempt to kill the baby Jesus. There is no evidence outside the Bible for this supposed massacre. 
As Jesus’ birthplace, it is revered by all Christians, who honour the birthplace of their Lord and Saviour by scrapping in its holy placesMonks fighting in 1905Monks fighting in 1907Monks fighting in 2007Priests fight in Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestinian police break up clergy with riot gear in 2011 and endangering buildings by arguing about who has the right to repair them (as opposed to actually, y'know, repairing them).
==Other Bethlehems==
Wikipedia lists ten Bethlehems in the USA, and one each in the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland and Wales. Bethlehem of Galilee is in northern Israel, and Bethlehem Chapel is in Czechia. Confused? Try the Bethlem Royal Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in London which gave its name to the word Bedlam.
The Bethlehem in Pennsylvania was founded by members of the Moravian Church, a German-speaking Protestant sect, who had emigrated from Moravia Bohemia, in present-day Czechia. One of this Bethlehem's tourist attractions is the "Holiday Putz Trail" at Christmastime, where people traditionally display (known as Christmas putzes in Bethlehem) and Holiday Putz Trail Historic Bethlehem. This can cause some snickering among people who know a bit of Yiddish or Yiddish-influenced English, for whereas in German putz only has non-obscene meanings, in Yiddish it means "penis" or a "stupid, worthless person". 
==References==
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Beto O'Rourke

Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke is a Democrat who ran against incumbent Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the 2018 midterm elections. Cruz won, though it was closer than usual for statewide races in Texas (as well as closer than most polls had suggested it would be);Ted Cruz’s margin of victory over Beto O’Rourke was even slimmer than we thought, Houston Chronicle, Jeremy Wallace, December 6, 2018Ted Cruz wins reelection over Beto O’Rourke, Politico, Darius Dixon, November 6, 2018 he had won more votes than any other Democrat had in that state in its entire history for any office. O'Rourke had previously represented Texas's 16th Congressional District in the House of Representatives for six years.Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Govtrack He ran a (very) unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020What Does Beto O’Rourke Believe?, FiveThirtyEight, Perry Bacon Jr., March 19, 2019 and ran for governor of Texas in 2022.Texas Governor election results, Politico
==Presidential candidacy==
He entered the race for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination on March 14, 2019. Almost immediately, he was criticized for his lack of a clear legislative track record or distinctive policy platform.Beto O’Rourke Enters the 2020 Presidential Campaign, The New York Times, Matt Flegenheimer and Jonathan Martin, March 14, 2019 His candidacy largely attracted media attention for his habit of standing on tables all the timeBeto O’Rourke standing on countertops, explained, Vox, Matthew Yglesias, March 22, 2019 and apologizing for myriad past statements (including an awkward joke about his wife raising their kids "sometimes with my help").Beto O'Rourke apologizes for jokes about wife, says he has benefited from 'white privilege', CNN, Eric Bradner, March 17, 2019 His initial campaign rollout was rather bumpy, failing to give clear answers to many questions and often being light on policy specifics. In May, he tried to re-launch his campaign to offset its initial disappointing launch which had led to his poll numbers and media attention dwindling.Beto O’Rourke Tries to Hone His Delivery: ‘I Have My Work Cut Out for Me’, The New York Times, Lisa Lerer, May 14, 2019
==RFK Conspiracy==
Several kooks from the clogosphere have noticed the coincidental similarities between O’Rourke and Robert F. Kennedy. For one, both are Democrats of Irish descent named “Robert Francis” with respective presidential campaigns and objectively-similar looks.Richard North Patterson, Beto and the Ghost of RFK. The Bulwark, 8 April 2019. Obviously, all the insinuation that all that holds a secret meaning is bullshit, so seriously don’t get any ideas... about Foss being on par with the Dead Kennedys.
==Punk Lifestyle==
Beto has a punk band called Foss.Colin Joyce, Watch Beto O’Rourke Talk About That Time He Was In a Punk Band…Again. Vice, 2 August 2019.
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Bible Issues

Bible Issues is an online Christian ministry that helps Christians "find God's voice in the Bible". So they claim. It was founded by Denver Cheddie, who has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. The site claims to adopt a rational approach to Biblical issues, "as opposed to the ever popular emotionalism".Original version: About us, archived from Bible Issues, 5 January 2016. Current version at Bible Issues. So it attempts to come across as an educated approach to Christianity by an academic scholar.
Although it claims to be rational, all of its teachings are based on the Protestant Bible. There are no articles on biblical criticism or biblical apologetics. In other words, the Bible is their starting point. The Bible is God's word, and everything that follows that leap of faith is perfectly rational. There is no attempt to even prove that the Bible is true, reliable, or actually God's word. 
There are no mentions of evolution or creationism, so their stance on those issues is unclear.
Predictably, Bible Issues is against homosexuality and gay marriage.Denver Cheddie, Is homosexuality a sin? Bible Issues. It holds to a fundamental conservative interpretation of the homosexuality scriptures in the Bible. It claims to be indifferent to gay marriage, but it clearly expresses sentiments to the contrary. It attributes changing attitudes toward homosexuality to a "pervasive liberal culture", and it expresses fear that gay rights will eventually take precedence over religious freedom. There is even an article discussing the science behind homosexuality. Amazingly, it comes to the conclusion that homosexuals are not born that way, but choose to be so. At no point do they present any science to prove their point. Their main emphasis is in showing the shortcomings of scientific research, which does suggest a genetic component to homosexuality. According to their logic, these shortcomings invalidate the theory that gays are born that way. 
The dominant emphasis is actually on bashing Christians, especially charismatics. It strongly condemns the excesses of fringe charismatic groups. So from that point of view, Bible Issues can be considered polemic rather than apologetic. While it does distance itself from the emotional extremes of Christianity, it falls short of presenting Christianity as intellectual.
==External links==
* Bible Issues website
==References==
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Bible science

There are a number of individuals out there that claim that the Bible is a scientific document. Bible science is also known as B.S.
*Science Confirms the Bible - A run down (and tearing apart) of claims that "Science Now" agrees with the Bible, while "Science Then" was nonsense.
*Biblical scientific foreknowledge - A look at some general claims made that the Bible is scientifically accurate.
*Jacob and genetics - An interesting story where the Bible reports artificial selection.
*Scientific errors in the bible - A nit-picky look at claims in the Bible.
== See also ==
*Christian Science
*Biblical contradictions
*101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe
Bible thumper

Bible thumper (also called Bible basher or Bible beater) is a description used with respect to particularly vocal Christians who constantly quote the Bible when discussing non-Biblical topics (often about science, but also about homophobia, porn, etc.). The term comes from old-timey circuit preachers who would emphatically thump a bible held aloft while making their points.
==Morality==
In the bible thumper’s opinion all moral issues are determined by what the bible says, chapter and verse, as the bible thumper quotes. 
#Those who refuse to follow the precepts of the bible thumper are Hell-bent sinners.
#Those who disagree with how the bible thumper interprets the aforementioned book are heretical Hell-bent sinners.
== See also ==
*Atheist thumper
*Biblical literalism
*Bibliolatry
*Fundy loon
*Jack van Impe
*Manny Pacquiao
==External links==
*Welcome To Bible Thumping Atheist!
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