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Same bro, same
5:35pm
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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?
Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough. -- Christopher Hitchens. (One of my favs)
Oof, true
5:35pm
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God is indeed a shining example to all, to all who commit bigoted atrocities that is.
How so? I'm just confused on what you mean.
5:34pm
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by calling yourself an atheist you have walked straight into religion's trap.
This reminds me of the Aztecs. They thought that it was good for everyone to tear out the hearts of people for sacrifice. In fact, there would be a punishment for things such as homosexuality or having sex before marriage (this affected women more, since it's easier to tell if women are virgins). If you were a lesbian, you got the garrote wire; if you were a gay man who was a top, you got your heart torn out; if you were a gay man who was a bottom, you got your guts pulled out of your anus. I'm pretty sure having sex before marriage was punishable by getting your heart torn out. I wonder what would have happened if you were both a top and a bottom? (Vers/switch) Well, anyway, they worshiped/idolized killing people.
5:33pm
comment on atheist quote:
How can a religion idolise a woman who refused to give patients pain relief because she believed pain was pure!?
There's one way to solve that: let your kids be kids!
5:27pm
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Its a terrible situation wherein many have been taught what to think rather than how to think.
More like stupidity...
5:27pm
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The religious are blinded by the divine light.
I see that this is your picture.
5:25pm
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"Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance."
10:01am
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If people are inept to playing Chinese whispers, how accurate is the bible supposed to be?
*if accurate at all*
4:56pm
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If people are inept to playing Chinese whispers, how accurate is the bible supposed to be?
she actually created a hospital/hospice called "home for the dieing" or something along those lines...
1:34am
comment on atheist quote:
How can a religion idolise a woman who refused to give patients pain relief because she believed pain was pure!?