RE: Atheist billboards in Atlanta
September 22, 2010 at 1:58 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2010 at 1:58 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 22, 2010 at 1:15 am)radames Wrote: There were many jesuses in that day. However I don't think that many claimed that they were a deity.
There are many people who claim to be a deity/jesus/messiah now in modern times. A lot of them have been found in compounds in the American west with a few pregnant underage girls and several damaged women or some other horrible situation.
It makes you really wonder about some of the messiahs from modern faiths (though Mohammad seemed fairly open about his particular depravities.)
Though I suppose in regard to christianity, if the actual Jesus were someone like that, then I have to hand it to christianity to really have their beliefs transcend the man, however, I'm certain that isn't the case (though I can't say anything with any certainty because there's no evidence that the man existed at all, but that's neither here nor there) but this applies to many historical figures as well.
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
