(June 7, 2015 at 10:36 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Now I have a couple of questions, though, about your last two sentences. How devout were your parents, and why did they suck so bad at indoctrination? There might be one simple answer for both questions, but maybe not, so I have it as a compound rather than just stoppig with the first conjunct.
My Dad was a protestant and my Mom a catholic. My Mom felt that we should be baptised, just in case. So basically, I was baptised under Pascal's wager. Neither really practised, though there was the mostly weekly sunday services and catechism. My Mom was excommunicated twice.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
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-- Superintendent Chalmers
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Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy