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Evening All ...
January 9, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Hi Guys.
I'm Dan .. new to the site today.
Have joined up to have some rational discussions with both fellow atheists and theists alike.
I am fascinated by the concept that people can keep faith in deities in spite of overwhelming evidence and scientific fact.
Although I am against religion, I don't discriminate against individuals based on their faith or opinions.
Anyway ... HI!!!!
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RE: Evening All ...
January 9, 2011 at 6:09 pm
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
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