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November 20, 2022 at 6:28 am
‘The problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water, or land. The problems is that we’ve given control of all these things to greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than about helping mankind.’ - Bill Hicks
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November 20, 2022 at 11:54 am
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November 20, 2022 at 1:23 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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November 21, 2022 at 8:41 am
“When inventing a god, the most important thing is to claim it is invisible, inaudible, and imperceptible in any way. Otherwise, people will become skeptical when it appears to no one, is silent and does nothing.” (Lindsey Brown)
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November 24, 2022 at 12:52 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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November 25, 2022 at 11:28 am
“Nobody but a dedicated Christian could possibly read the gospels and not see them as a tissue of nonsense.” (Isaac Asimov)
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November 25, 2022 at 8:27 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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November 26, 2022 at 10:31 am
"Like most English people, I'm not a great believer. I've read Dawkins' book and it's very persuasive. I'm more in awe of the universe and that's not really a belief in God...Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all...Dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd." (Mick Jagger)
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November 28, 2022 at 8:52 pm
"You don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.”
— Daniel Dennett
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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November 30, 2022 at 6:22 am
'Furious fanaticism; a love of war and disorder; a hatred for order and patient industry; no accumulative habits; restless ; treacherous and uncertain: look to Ireland. As a Saxon, I abhor all dynasties, monarchies, and bayonet governments, but this latter seems the only one suitable to the Celtic man.' - anatomist Robert Knox, 1850
*gently wipes away a single tear of gratitude*
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