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June 2, 2022 at 11:11 am
"No one can sit at the bedside of a dying child and still believe in God." - Bertrand Russell
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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June 2, 2022 at 5:46 pm
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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June 3, 2022 at 8:07 am
"It ain't the parts of the Bible I don't understand that bother me, it's the parts I do understand." (Mark Twain) 
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June 4, 2022 at 12:11 am
"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. The great masses of a nation are not composed of philosophers. For the masses of the people, especially faith is absolutely the only basis of a moral outlook on life." -- Adolf Hitler
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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June 11, 2022 at 1:21 am
“There is absolutely no reason why out on the street today a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon.” - Ronald Reagan
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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June 11, 2022 at 4:22 am
‘Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.’ - Charlie Chaplin
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June 11, 2022 at 10:24 am
(June 11, 2022 at 4:22 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.’ - Charlie Chaplin
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The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi pops to mind which is said to acknowledge the three realities that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. But that brings up the very obvious question, is impermanance itself impermanent? If nothing is finished does that mean we are finished with things being finished? A more difficult question is perfection. If nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect, isn't that in some sense perfectly imperfect?
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June 11, 2022 at 10:49 am
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” (Marcus Aurelius)
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June 11, 2022 at 11:06 am
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June 11, 2022 at 10:03 pm
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