Marcus Aurelius: \”If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be […]
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The most important function of the internet is to quantify the incredible level of mental illness among the owners, content providers, and subscribers of the world. Time was you would only encounter such madness in letter writers to newspapers, or men standing on a platform in a park on a Sunday, or in the pulpit.
As of yesterday Australia now has 4 tertiary institutions with that most oxymoron of all oxymoron names \”Religious Unviversity\”. It must be time for me to give up on the country in despair.
Has anyone in real life (not the movies) ever said, in response to some pereceived danger, \”oh well, gotta die some time\”? Of course not, yet somehow script writers have people speaking this sentence all the time.
The percentage of ignorant adults in a population is directly proportional to the percenatge of home-schooled and religious-schooled children in the population.
Are Trump\’s people working on translating \”Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer\” into American English? Occurs to me to thank the Tooth Fairy that Donald Trump is the opposite of religious. Imagine if he was a fundamentalist on top of all his other faults – then imagine a Taliban-run America.
How anyone with any self-repect can sing the mumbo-jumbo of Xmas Carol nonsense I have never understood.
Was horrified to see Notre Dame burn. Am delighted to see it restored. But can\’t help remembering that it is the home of apparently adult intelligent people who believe they have the \”Crown of Thorns\”.
When I hear just the first sentences uttered by religious apologists or the merely religious my immediate reaction is always \”what are you talking about?\” And the second sentence. None of it makes any sense. You listening Jordan?
