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January 4, 2023 at 2:00 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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January 5, 2023 at 9:52 am
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January 7, 2023 at 6:44 am
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January 7, 2023 at 10:47 am
"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)
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January 8, 2023 at 4:33 am
'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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January 8, 2023 at 7:42 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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January 9, 2023 at 5:50 am
'The legitimacy of a religion is inversely proportional to its level of organization.' - Anon.
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January 9, 2023 at 8:26 am
"We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication." (Thomas Jefferson)
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January 16, 2023 at 12:08 am
"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"