So 137 atheists (as of my post here, including myself) and 19 people who need to grow out of their imaginary friend stage.
Not bad.
Personally, though, my lord and savior is Ceiling Cat and my beliefs about the afterlife can be summed up in the movie Beetlejuice.
Then again, when I was screaming at the neighbor's mice while shirtless this morning I've come to realize that that may be because I took Mickey Rooney's Crazy Pills ™ with my breakfast.
Still, the day is young and there are school children I need to use as kitten-throwing target practice.
Not bad.
Personally, though, my lord and savior is Ceiling Cat and my beliefs about the afterlife can be summed up in the movie Beetlejuice.
Then again, when I was screaming at the neighbor's mice while shirtless this morning I've come to realize that that may be because I took Mickey Rooney's Crazy Pills ™ with my breakfast.
Still, the day is young and there are school children I need to use as kitten-throwing target practice.
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
