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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It's A Quote
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“The penis sometimes displays an intellect of its own. When a man may desire it to be stimulated, it remains obstinate and goes its own way, sometimes moving on its own without the permission of its owner. Whether he is awake or sleeping, it does what it desires. Often when the man wishes to use it, it desires otherwise, and often it wishes to be used and the man forbids it. Therefore it appears that this creature possesses a life and an intelligence separate from the man.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"
That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.
--Neil Armstrong RE: It's A Quote
June 8, 2023 at 10:28 am
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"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance." (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
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"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
“Theology . . . induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe.”
— Bertrand Russell, “A History of Western Philosophy”
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"
Forget about the 4k TVs and stare at walls instead.
Quote:You may discover in the patterns on the wall a resemblance to various landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or again you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could turn into complete and well-drawn forms. The effect produced by these mottled walls is like that of the sound of bells, in which you may recognize any name or word you choose to imagine. . . . It should not be hard for you to look at stains on walls, or the ashes of a fire, or the clouds, or mud, and if you consider them well you will find marvelous new ideas, because the mind is stimulated to new inventions by obscure things.
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"
RE: It's A Quote
June 17, 2023 at 5:00 pm
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‘The best weddings are Polish for the music, Shinto for the poetry, and Vegas for the glitter.’ - Reverend Jim Ignatowski
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
“Aside from biblical writers, no one seems to have ever heard of Jesus until some 150 years after his supposed birth. This fact occurred to some scholars in the eighteenth century and was more fully developed in the nineteenth. Thus many have come to question whether this Jesus character actually existed. We seem to have just as much evidence for the existence of Jesus as we have for Hercules or Robin Hood. Perhaps even less.” (Michael B. Paulkovich)
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"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
‘If you’re ever lost in the wilderness at night, look for the North Star. Its twinkling will comfort you as you die.’ - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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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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