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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"The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January or February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer." (Vita Sackville-West)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
‘If the police did their job, people would respect them. Ain’t no song called Fuck The Fire Department.’ - Snoop Dogg
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
"Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world." (Gandalf)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
(January 7, 2023 at 10:47 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: "Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world." (Gandalf) Gandalf knew about the GOP?
'Socialism will never take root in America as long as the poor see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires and not as an exploited proletariat.' - John Steinbeck
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
“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)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
'The legitimacy of a religion is inversely proportional to its level of organization.' - Anon.
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
"We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication." (Thomas Jefferson)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
"Until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europeans who believed fervently in God, Jesus and his resurrection, angels, Satan, and miracles did not think of themselves as “religious” but as ordinary. Only with scientific progress, encounters with other peoples of the world with radically different beliefs, and the demystifying aspects of the Reformation did there emerge a sense that adherence to a certain set of Christian tenets was “religious” as opposed to empirical." - John McWhorter
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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