Nor can an individual
No country can consider itself modern if religion plays a major part in the lives of its people.
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atheism
Wages of sin
Amazing how arrogant most religious people are, thinking their strong, unfounded, belief in an imaginary being, demands that they control the lives of everyone else, and kill any who disagree.
Relative values
I try to save the lives of ants and beetles and butterflies; frogs and lizards and turtles and birds; and sheep and mice and kangaroos, when I can. Oh and people too, if needed.
The tolling bell
I had a friend who didn’t make it to twenty. Another never reached forty. One more was gone before fifty. Finally there was the friend who fell short of seventy. I am closing fast on my next landmark of eighty years. Lucky. Sad.
Dark stranger
Every New Year’s Eve, we say to ourselves – “Well I hope next year is better than this year”. But, as every New Year’s Day rolls through the door, we realise it was probably a forlorn hope
Thinking
There is, apparently no brain, however large, well adjusted, fast thinking, packed full of data, seemingly logical, that it can’t be turned into mush by the acquisition of an imaginary friend
I breathe, therefore I am
I am breathing in, breathing out, like all the other living creatures sharing this planet and this air. But more, that air has been shared by all the creatures who ever lived, been refreshed by all the plants that ever grew, since the beginning of Earth time. Each new breath combines all the old breaths
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Losing their marbles
Heaven save me from celebrities who seem quite sane and rational when young but who in old age become religious and move hard right politically and seem to be mulling over joining the Flat Earth Society
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Seasons in the Sun
Impossible to decide which season would be best to die in: Summer with its heat and blue skies; Autumn with hints of frost and snow; Winter with the warmth of hearth and home: Spring with flowers and promise of flowers. But whichever I choose I would be desolate not to see the following one.
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