(July 13, 2012 at 10:56 pm)Polaris Wrote: You should be taking your medication.
Also. One thing I don't understand (because I actually don't want to think a people can be so barbaric) is why Americans continue to support war criminals as their leaders and continue even now to support unjust wars that rob innocent people of their liberty.
I won't defend America. That isn't my intention nor my prerogative.
I will, however, laugh without pause at the fact that you of all people are going to tell me I ought to be "taking my medicine", and that the "gullible" Americans are ignorant when it comes to religion or lack thereof.
I and some 18-21% of Americans (depending on the poll) are at least not seriously deluded in one aspect of life.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell