The Invasion of Spain - A Natural Consequence of Materialism
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Philosophy
Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe (1900): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42968/42968-h/42968-h.htm
Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part IV: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Discourse_on_Method/Part_4
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book III: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0131:book%3D3:card%3D830
La Mettrie, Man a Machine (1747): https://bactra.org/LaMettrie/Machine/
d'Holbach, The System of Nature (1770): http://www.ftarchives.net/holbach/system/a01.htm
Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (1841): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47025/47025-h/47025-h.htm
Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845): https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (2007): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (1981): https://libquotes.com/alasdair-macintyre/quote/lbo9k5z
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): https://sites.pitt.edu/~syd/burke.html
Derek Parfit, On What Matters (2011): https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit
Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (2010): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape
History
Mozarabic Chronicle of 754 (Wolf trans.): https://www.8thcentury.com/arab-spain-the-view-from-inside/
Treaty of Tudmir (713): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Orihuela
Dario Fernandez-Morera, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise (2016): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Andalusian_Paradise
S. J. Pearce, "The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise" (2020): https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The_Myth_of_the_Myth_of_the_Andalusian_P.pdf
Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3293/3293-h/3293-h.htm
Data
Pew Research Center, U.S. Muslims (2017): https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/07/26/terrorism-and-concerns-about-extremism/
Pew Research Center, The World's Muslims (2013): https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/
Open Doors, Nigeria: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/nigeria/
Gallup, Belief in God (2022): https://news.gallup.com/poll/393737/belief-god-dips-new-low.aspx
Gallup, Church Membership (2021): https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx
Gallup, Belief in Five Spiritual Entities (2023): https://news.gallup.com/poll/508886/belief-five-spiritual-entities-edges-down-new-lows.aspx
Pew Research Center, Religiously Unaffiliated (2021): https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/
Theology and Scripture
Augustine, Confessions, Book I: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I-II, Q2, A8: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2002.htm
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book III: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/801500-mere-christianity
Deuteronomy 1:17, KJV: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%201%3A17&version=KJV
Mark 8:36, KJV: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%208%3A36&version=KJV