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All over the world fascists are rising like zombies from the ground at the sound of the first Trump.
atheism
Alibi
A great comfort to some people that religion gives them the ability to be viciously cruel to other people with a clear conscience.
Or knitting
When you have a terminal illness, or are getting very old (same thing), people say you should make the most of the time you have left. But how do you decide, of the thousand and one things you could do, which is the right one? You wouldn’t want to be on your death bed thinking
Progress
One of the historical periods people often say they would have liked to live in is Tudor/Elizabethan England. Indeed I might have said it myself once – drama, adventure, new parts of world being discovered, religion changing, noble wars, science beginning – but not any more. The major feature of the period was the random
Proving the negative
The number of places of worship damaged and destroyed by fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, lightning and other “acts of god” natural disasters over the last few thousand years constitutes firm evidence for the non-existence of a god or gods.
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No alternative
Religion is to science as alternative medicine is to medicine. No such thing as alternative medicine, any medicine that works is just medicine. Similarly, any part of any religion which actually supplied some real, testable, information about the world we live in would be science.
That’s why we can’t have good things
When the other species on the planet get together and compare notes I think they will all agree that Homo sapiens sapiens didn’t deserve Earth.
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Villains of the peace
People we think are bad people when we are young turn out, when we are old, to have not been bad at all, compared to the really bad people we met through the rest of our lives.
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All creatures
A lifetime caring for animals is a life well lived. A lifetime killing animals not so much.
And then acquire followers
There is no idea so extreme, so mad-brained, so far removed from reality, so damaging to human beings, so damaging to the planet, that someone, somewhere, won’t accept it as gospel truth.
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