350,000 BC: humans raise their IQs to about 75 and become sentient; conceptual thought and linguistic communication become possible; reason and superstition come into mental existence, and become permanent human options and choices; lies become possible; irrationality begins
35,000 BC: humans raise their IQs to 100; elaborate self-deception and systematic social lies become possible; myth begins
3,500 BC: humans don't raise their IQs any more but do create cities and civilization; small tribes become vast nations and their myths become shared, compared, combined, and far more elaborate; a kind of noble proto-philosophy and proto-science emerges which features -- among other things -- "creation myths"; this early thinking and story-telling is semi-rational and respectably attempts to explain the nature of the universe, man's nature, man's place in the cosmos, great men, dumb animals, birth and death, the seasons, the celestial bodies, etc.; mythology and polytheism begins
late 500s BC: in reaction to the invention of pure reason and pure rationality half a century previous in Greece, mythology and polytheism begin to die out; but also in reaction to the overwhelmingly virtuous and simultaneous concomitant inventions of philosophy and science, the forces of evil begin to fight back; they invent various anti-reason anti-philosophy mystery cults such as the Eleusinian and Orphic ones; extreme irrationality and extreme evil become possible; proto-religion begins
510 BC: Xenophanes mocks the traditional Olympian gods for their non-existence -- and instantly becomes infamous and feared for daring to tell part of the truth; but he also advances very early monotheism with his reference to a new god "greatest among gods and men"
400s BC: proto-religion grows remarkably in strength, confidence, perversity, and intellectual defiance; it heavily threatens and intimidates all reasonists, philosophers, aristocrats, men of education, and men of virtue; the progress of humanity and development of philosophy is significantly inhibited; already Anaxagoras, the teacher of Socrates, is legally accused of "impiety" while Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, is brought to trial and accused of "irreverence" toward the gods; both escape their ordeal with difficulty and Anaxagoras is forced to flee Athens for 30 years; the mystery cults expand to all of Greece and become popular with the low in education and virtue
399 BC: proto-religion murders Socrates, the greatest reasonist and philosopher in the world
323 BC: proto-religion attempts to murder Aristotle, the greatest reasonist and philosopher of all time
292 BC: proto-religion attempts to murder Theophrastus, the greatest Aristotelian in the world
around 290 BC: Herophilus and Erasistratus make tremendous advances in the study of anatomy until proto-religion criminalizes the dissection of human cadavers; progress in this important medical and scientific tool comes to a grinding halt; the result is vast ignorance leading to almost two thousand years of indescribable suffering with millions of innocent deaths
250 BC: a partial and early version of the "bible" is translated into Greek in Alexandria, the intellectual center of the world; this insidious pernicious "septuagint" and undermining cancer quietly but effectively begins to wreak havoc as it poisons the minds and souls of the entire vast Hellenistic Empire
mid 200s BC: the greatest rival to Aristotle's Lyceum, Plato's Academy, becomes so "skeptical" that it joins up with the mystery cults; "Plato for the masses" begins; eventually it becomes "the opiate of the masses"
about 100 BC: god is invented; the mystery cults, with help from the devolved platonists, segue into the first, more or less, true monotheism; but this semi-god doesn't completely deny the existence of its rivals, and it confines itself somewhat to only lording it over Judea; the midsize Hebrew nation, after vast rewriting, declares all of its national literature to be "perfect," and "holy"; this grabbag of often poorly-written, inept, contradictory pamphlets are "canonized" and eventually come to be called the "old testament" and "jewish" bible; pure irrationality and pure evil become possible; religion begins
00s: the Hebrew nation invents many "messiahs"; religion becomes fanatically opposed to reason and philosophy, reality and truth -- and even life and happiness; religious mania and zealotry begins
70s: Hebrew men of god rebel against the world's most civilized and benevolent country, Rome; 960 fanatics and zealots commit suicide at Masada
about 100: radical Hebrew religionists create a new monotheism and "christian" bible"; this heartlessly evil religion doesn't just attempt to destroy the innocent minds and souls of Judea -- but the innocent minds and souls of the whole world; the pure "unigod" or "omnigod" is born; nothing more evil ever will or can exist
100s: religion simply brutalizes men of reason, philosophy, sophisticated thought, and civilization; this insidious pernicious poison and cancer subverts, perverts, undercuts, and undermines all of Roman high culture
200s: the good emperors are gone and an absolute plethora of newfangled superstitious cults threaten to swamp civilization; these new terrible evils include Cybele, Isis, Mithras, multiple divine oracles, and variegated mothers of god; but the worst superstition of all -- and the one most hated and feared by the aristocracy and educated elite -- is the hard, cold, cruel, strange, otherworldly, alien, ascetic, fierce, pitiless one known as "christianity"
early 300s: Rome reels under the influence of multiple popular religions; no-one even questions the existence of the unigod/omnigod; finally, Roman and human civilization surrenders to virtually the worst possible of the overgrown eastern mystery cults; christ-inanity becomes the philosophy (sic) of Rome; civilized society, high culture, true philosophy, and reason are nearly extinct
325: the Council of Nicaea is called by Emperor Constantine, while the irrelevant pope isn't even invited; this meeting considers and permanently resolves many technical details of christian "orthodoxy"; it rejects "arianism" as well as many of the other semi-reasonable semi-benevolent alternatives; the Council leaders embrace the general religious extremism that the times seem to demand, including a fanatic persecution of "heretics" and "renegades"; they even embrace the everlastingly silly and embarrassing concept of "the holy trinity"
mid 300s: the noble Emperor Julian makes a desperate last gasp for Roman sanity and survival; upon ascension he repudiates his religious upbringing and tries to return to reason, Greek philosophy, and Roman civilization; but his opponents devastate him and his viewpoint with laughter and indifference; the evil world of god is truly upon them; in the end, Julian is opportunistically murdered by a christian traitor -- his own soldier -- and his dying words are: "Thou hast conquered, O Galilean."
late 300s: "saint" Ambrose and others inaugurate a truly vicious spirit of intellectual intolerance, hatred, and persecution against men of education, men of reason, "heathens," and "heretics"; little opposition to the philosophy (sic) of christianity is allowed at any level of society; true philosophy is effectively dead
late 300s: Visigoth and Roman ruler Alaric bans the Eleusinian mystery cult, a rival to the christian mystery cult; soon enough, Alaric's own version of the christian cult -- arianism -- is identically banned
391: a large part of the greatest library ever -- at Alexandria, Egypt -- is burnt down by christians
394: christian zealot Emperor Theodosius significantly increases the intolerance and persecution of Roman "civilization"; he even crushes over 1100 years of noble virtuous activity by terminating the Olympics
300s-600s: now that reason, philosophy, and civilization have been effectively obliterated by the cults (presumably forever), there begins a series of endless wars and petty squabbles over mindless trivial christian "doctrine"; this farce features, among others, apollinarianism vs. arianism, athanasianism vs. arianism, "orthodox" christianity vs. nestorianism, eutychianism and monophysitism vs. nestorianism, "catholicism" vs. monotheletism, ad nauseum; all such battles are fought long and hard -- with perfect viciousness, and much persecution and torture -- but don't mean a god-damned thing to anyone
410: Rome is sacked for the first time in 800 years; everyone is shocked and rightfully blames christianity; "church father" and "saint" Augustine lies through his teeth as he denies religion is to blame; he also wildly claims this horror doesn't matter anyway since the noble "city of man" should be savagely obliterated by, and in favor of, his hyperevil "city of god"
476: god murders Rome; it was by far the greatest country in the history of man; extreme religious loyalist Edward Gibbon and his monumental 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' attribute it to just one cause: christianity
about 500: religion inaugurates the longest, deepest, worst Dark Age in the history of man; 1000 years of god and misery ensue
after 500: religion ruthlessly eviscerates -- if not outright destroys -- most other societal institutions; the church becomes a center and virtual monopoly of human learning, socializing, governing, litigating, etc. -- all of these important activities are intensely stunted and perverted; like with the 20th century communist party, many good men in a bad society are essentially forced to join the church because it's the only important cultural institution that exists; this overwhelming societal warp, deviancy, and degeneracy continues for at least a millennium; its dolorous and destructive influence is heavily felt to this day
529: christian zealot Emperor Justinian terminates almost 1000 years of glorious history by closing down Aristotle's Lyceum, Epicurus' Garden, Plato's Academy, Zeno's Painted Porch, and all the other philosophy schools; even token opposition to the christian antiphilosophy is forbidden
about 500s: European religionists like "saint" Benedict and "saint" Francis of Assisi heavily attack the long-established Greek and Roman practice of bathing and bodily cleanliness; such habits and values are deemed "unclean," "impure," "lascivious", and improperly "luxurious"; Europeans essentially don't wash for more than a millennia with a disastrous fall in quality of life, odor, hygiene, and health; countless millions suffer and die needlessly from previously benign and rare diseases
600s: radical jews and christians create yet another monotheism and "bible"; this "islam" and its "koran" are by far the most irrational, illiberal, and blatantly shamelessly evil religion and "holy" book ever
642: the rest of the greatest library ever is burnt down and obliterated by islamics; they claim all knowledge necessary to man is found in the muslim "holy" book (koran) and that anything outside of or beyond the "truths" of the official cult writings is insidious, pernicious, dubious, deceptive, etc.; thus "caliph" Omar uses the 700,000 priceless irreplaceable truly holy books of the library to heat the remaining Alexandrian luxury baths for six months; the world never recovers from this devastating loss -- and never can
late 700s: christianity is moribund in the West and few Europeans have any contact with it; unfortunately Charlemagne passes a new law which allows the church to steal 10% or so per annum from all people as a kind of coercive "tithing"; this religion rebounds massively and reinfects all of Europe permanently
about 1100: one hateful malevolent superstition battles another hateful malevolent superstition over petty distinctions for more than 200 years; these weirdo "crusades" and fruitless "holy wars" over the desertlike wasteland "holy land" in Judea even resulted in the wholesale pointless slaughter of vast legions of children
early 1100s: Peter Abelard, a truly good man and loyal christian, is mercilessly persecuted and threatened by the church thruout his illustrious intellectual career; because of his relentless reliance on logic and reason in both theology and philosophy, men of god burn his books, cut off his genitalia, and eventually send him to the Pope to be "condemned" and executed; in route to the Vatican, he luckily dies
1204: "pope" Innocent the 3rd orders a second "crusade" to the "holy" land which results in the capture of Constantinople for the first time in 900 years; this final outpost and redoubt of classic Greek and Roman civilization is sacked brutally by the religionists; most of the cultural treasures there are wantonly destroyed, especially the literature and art; much of the priceless classic culture of the hellenistic era is destroyed forever; this horrific crime against humanity by the god-fearing is another blow from which we can never recover
1233: the Inquisition begins; people who refuse to tell terrible lies and do horrific evils in the name of "god" are hideously tortured, burnt, and killed for an unbelievable and soulless 600 years
1200s: northern France wages an especially vicious war and "crusade" against southern France for the trivial "heresy" of "manichaeanism"; the gentle Provencal culture is virtually annihilated; when asked how to tell a southern "heretic" from a southern "true believer," the northern leader Simon de Montfort replies "Kill them all. God will know his own."
1300s: the Renaissance begins in Northern Italy; the unbearable Long Night of god is finally declining -- for a while; reason and philosophy ascend; civilization, prosperity, humanity, and a modicum of happiness return
1478: the Spanish Inquisition begins; this indescribable horror is even worse than its predecessor; Torquemada and others savagely brutalize and commit ghastly "autos da fe" against all those of minutely different superstitions (jews, islamics, etc.) who tell terrible lies and do horrific evils in the name of "god" -- but not quite enough
1500s: the Renaissance spreads to the rest of Europe, especially in the west; religion declines precipitously and hope is in the air; but the pure evil that is god and christianity strategically retreats, and then stages its own attempted renaissance called the "reformation"; this jazzed-up eastern mystery cult's extreme irrationality and malevolence are curtailed noticeably; but the destructive heart of religiosity remains and is still highly influential
1543: Nicolas Copernicus discovers the earth revolves around the sun -- not vice-versa -- and he works out various mathematical proofs of this; but he's so afraid of the evil catholic and protestant authorities that he refuses to publish his discoveries until on his deathbed
1600: philosopher and scientist Giordano Bruno confidently advocates Copernican heliocentricism and speculates that each star in the sky is another sun, possibly with its own planets revolving around it; the church tries him for "heresy" and burns him at the stake
1600s: religion continues to decline in Europe as quality of life continues to ascend
1633: the world's best scientist, Galileo, is mercilessly persecuted by men of god for the crime of gingerly telling the truth about heliocentricism; he's threatened with torture and forced to recant his beliefs -- but still is kept under arrest for the remaining 10 years of his precious life; the church refuses to apologize for over 350 years
mid 1600s: philosophers Rene Descartes and Benedict Spinoza are attacked and charged with heresy by the European anti-philosophy; this is so despite the fact that both are religious and christian
1692: "god-loving" man-hating religionists murder 19 innocent people in Salem, Massachusetts for being biblical "witches"
around 1740s: fairly slight but ominous religious revival and "great awakening" in Britain and America
late 1700s: liberalism is at its height; rationality and philosophy are at their strongest ever; the Enlightenment and Age of Reason results in the lightest, brightest, sweetest, most joyous lifestyle to date; civilization and culture are at their zenith; the aristocracy and educated virtuous elite mock, scorn, insult, and fleer religion -- and its adherents -- almost without restraint or consequence; the world's greatest country, America, is founded -- mostly by semi-atheistic "deists" and other reasonists
early 1800s: the "reformation" scam, unfortunately, has worked; god begins a new Dark Age; science, technology, and medicine continue to ascend, but philosophy and culture decline; reason and civilization retreat; that which gives life meaning, purpose, and pleasure goes into eclipse
1830s: the "Oxford movement" successfully advocates a massive retreat to empty ceremony and meaningless ritual; a general religious fanaticism and intellectual intolerance sweeps the West
1840s: the overwhelming majority of religionists continue to support the evil of slavery -- which is dying out worldwide; all the "holy" books defend and promote slavery unambiguously
1848: communism begins; a secular and gratuitously politicized form of the "opiate of the masses" emerges; this new-style political evil largely supplants the old-style philosophical (sic) evil; the worst form of government tyranny ever works hand in glove with religion to mindlessly heartlessly punish man for sins he didn't actually commit -- nor even could commit; ostensibly opposed, the two uber-evil belief systems actually jointly loath the Sacred Self and his happiness; this gruesome twosome and two-headed serpent seeks to brutally crush the individual (that's YOU) at all costs and in the name of something which doesn't materially exist: a collective or god
1859: Darwin is persecuted mercilessly by good religionists everywhere for the crime of discovering evolution and then telling the truth; this last is always the enemy of god
1859: in a supreme act of pychological self-revelation, the Pope declares himself to be infallible; the naked evil of religion is exposed to all
late 1800s: irrationality reigns throughout the globe; religion is essentially the monopoly philosophy (sic) of the whole god-damned world
1900s: monotheism and welfare-statism -- tyranny of the mind and body -- combine to create the worst century in the history of man; self-abnegation and individual annihilation predominate; so does personal and collective misery; the West ends up about 50% welfare statist, 25% religionist, and only 25% liberal in politics and philosophy
September 11, 2001: verminous barbaric religiosos wage terrorist war against noble civilized atheistic America
2000s: a Second Renaissance and New Enlightenment loom in the distance; reason, philosophy, and liberal culture start to come back -- as does life, happiness, and hope; the flagitious evil that is religion is, thank god, starting to decline again; all the major philosophers of the modern era are finally all pure atheists including Nietzsche, Russell, Sartre, and Rand; maybe this time, by 2100 or so, humans can finally and at long long last liberate themselves, completely and permanently, from this blood-sucking, death-worshipping demon and heinous, monstrous devil
