June 2010
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“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a...”
– Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!) (via cocknbull) (via somebodysaiditbetter)
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Young Saudi man punished for kissing a woman in... →
kissez:
Last week, a young Saudi man was sentenced to four months in jail and ninety lashings after being arrested by religious police for kissing and hugging a woman in the mall. The couple was spotted on mall cameras “engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers.”
The job of the Saudi religious police is to enforce a strict interpretation of Islam, which does not allow unrelated...
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President Obama Speaks at LGBT Pride Month... →
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LXVIII by Stephen Crane
A spirirt sped
Through spaces of night;
And as he sped, he called,
“God! God!”
He went through valleys
Of black death-slime,
Ever calling,
“God! God!”
Their echoes
From crevice and cavern
Mocked Him:
“God! God! God!”
Fleetly into the plains of space
He went, ever calling,
“God! God!”
Eventually, then, he screamed,
Mad in denial,
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Question of the Day:
Do we have free will?
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Why Free Will, Prayer and an Omnipotent God Are...
The link from The Huffington Post.
The notion that an all-powerful god granted humans free will is one of the most egregious examples of religion’s absurdity. But the situation becomes positively surreal when people believe that praying to an all-powerful god can alter the outcome of events according to the entreaties of the prayer. Holding three mutually exclusive ideas at the same time is...
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How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over
The link to the article and podcast.
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Soyuz Rocket Liftoff →
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“Atheism will set you free.”
– sevenworldscollide.
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Morgan Freeman on Science and Faith
A celebrity point of view:
The interview with Morgan Freeman.
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Religion Quote
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides…
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“They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were...”
– Steven Weinberg
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“I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this...”
– Lord Byron
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“I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that...”
– George W. Bush
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“What Jupiter? Do not trifle. There is no Jupiter.”
– Socrates
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“I want to examine that dangerous thing that’s common to Judaism and Christianity...”
– Richard Dawkins
die-eier-von-satan asked: I fucking love your blog. R'Amen.
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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the...”
– John Adams
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“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll...”
– Unknown Author
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“Truth does not have to be accepted on faith. Scientists do not hold hands every...”
– Dan Barker
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The Philosophy of The Matrix
Taken from here: In fact, the Matrix simply takes advantage of a sort of mind control already operating in the everyday world. We are told that what keeps people from taking control of the Matrix world is their taking for granted the common sense view of how things behave, such as, if you fall you will get hurt. More generally, what keeps people in line is their tendency to believe what the...
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