RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 15, 2012 at 3:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2012 at 3:58 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(January 15, 2012 at 12:53 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: The pride that secular, reform and conservative Jews place in education, among a few other things, is part of what makes me feel lucky, and now proud, to have been born one. If Christians actually consistently acted out their much touted values like charity and humility, I might forgive them other things.
Indeed, and this (and your points in the previous post) is why you're not just the (pronounced thee) queen of summers, but my queen of summers.
This emphasis on education (as opposed to ridiculous biblical literalism) is why I have a lot of respect for the Jewish people.
It also helps that some of my favorite people ever (present company included) are Jews - Lewis Black and Jon Stewart for example.
They're prominant in the entertainment industry not just becuase they're witty and smart, but because they're knowledgable and sharp like a nano-wire.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
