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March 28, 2023 at 10:45 am
"Fossils are a bonus. A welcome bonus, to be sure, but not an essential one. It is worth remembering this when creationists go on (as they tediously do) about ‘gaps’ in the fossil record. The fossil record could be one big gap, and the evidence for evolution would still be overwhelmingly strong. At the same time, if we had only fossils and no other evidence, the fact of evolution would again be overwhelmingly supported. As things stand, we are blessed with both."
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March 29, 2023 at 9:53 am
“Millions of men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.” (Thomas Jefferson)
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March 31, 2023 at 9:50 am
"Everything good comes from patterns of practice, rather than any single great act."
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April 1, 2023 at 4:50 pm
‘The real purpose of socialism is to advance beyond the predatory phase of human development.’ - Albert Einstein
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April 2, 2023 at 8:33 am
"I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain." (John Masefield) 
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April 3, 2023 at 12:29 am
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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April 3, 2023 at 8:41 am
“An early objection that I had with Christianity when I was in school was being told I was part of a flock. Shepherds don’t look after sheep because they like them! They either want to fleece them, fuck them or eat them! (Christopher Hitchens)
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April 5, 2023 at 5:51 pm
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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April 6, 2023 at 7:08 am
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"Religion is the greatest fomenter of hatred the world has ever known." (H.L. Mencken)
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April 6, 2023 at 10:38 am
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning against the balcony railing, holding the universe together." JD Salinger
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