It's A Quote

[Gwaithmir]

"Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man." (Thomas Paine) 

[Fake Messiah]

It seems that Issac Asimov received some Chick tracts in his times:

It is a little irritating when I am sent little tracts touting some sectarian belief in the fond hope that this will make me "see the light." I don't know why it never occurs to such people that my views are fixed firmly and are not to be swayed by little tracts.

Sometimes I am irritated into answering. Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?" I never received an answer, of course.

Isaac Asimov

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

(Thomas Jefferson)

Boru

[Gwaithmir]

[Fake Messiah]

[Fake Messiah]

"I think there ought to be a class in public schools on religion. It occupies an undeniably significant role in civilization. The religion class should cover all the world’s faith-based philosophies and belief systems. I think, historically, such a class was omitted because religions themselves are not fans of tolerating other religions."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

[arewethereyet]

"I think there ought to be a class in public schools on religion. It occupies an undeniably significant role in civilization. The religion class should cover all the world’s faith-based philosophies and belief systems. I think, historically, such a class was omitted because religions themselves are not fans of tolerating other religions."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I attended Catholic schools and took a class in high school called World Religions.  It was really quite well done.  It was taught by a quirky, rogue priest who often went off script.  I had him for English Lit too.  It's always seemed strange to me how afraid some people are about even talking about other faith practices.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

"I think there ought to be a class in public schools on religion. It occupies an undeniably significant role in civilization. The religion class should cover all the world’s faith-based philosophies and belief systems. I think, historically, such a class was omitted because religions themselves are not fans of tolerating other religions."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I attended Catholic schools and took a class in high school called World Religions.  It was really quite well done.  It was taught by a quirky, rogue priest who often went off script.  I had him for English Lit too.  It's always seemed strange to me how afraid some people are about even talking about other faith practices.

I took a similar class, but the Brother who taught it wasn’t rogue at all. For each section, he would go into excruciating detail about the beliefs and practices of religion X, then spend an equal amount of time telling us why it was wrong and its adherents were going to Hell.

Boru

[Angrboda]

I'm reminded of my time as a Hindu. Between gods and between sects devoted to the same god, pluralism was the official line. But buried in the footnotes was always an explanation of why the advocate's sect is more equal than the others.

[Gwaithmir]

“I am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow felt is was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided I was a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don’t have evidence to prove God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.” (Isaac Asimov)