RE: Glad to find these forums
August 16, 2010 at 2:03 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2010 at 2:04 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
You are certainly in an excellent business to have the ability to be skeptical about the things you hear. It's only going to help you here and everywhere, even if the bigwigs in the news industry still put 'ethics' on the backburners. Though please understand that my distaste for news comes mostly from places like FOX news. I only refer to them as a news organization in name only, of course.
In any case, welcome to atheist forums.
Just hand your soul to the guy with the reddish skin and pointed goatee and you'll fit right in.
In any case, welcome to atheist forums.
Just hand your soul to the guy with the reddish skin and pointed goatee and you'll fit right in.
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
