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Religion had good intentions, but nature has better
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RE: Religion had good intentions, but nature has better
Quote:"One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] convention protects them, and so they proceed with their blather unwhipped and almost unmolested, to the great damage of common sense and common decency. that they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly. Nor is there any visible intellectual dignity in theologians. Few of them know anything that is worth knowing, and not many of them are even honest.”
― H.L. Mencken, H.L. Mencken on Religion

Religion is shit.
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RE: Religion had good intentions, but nature has better - by Minimalist - November 22, 2014 at 7:55 pm

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