This is Siegfried Sassoon\’s niece, supposedly an atheist, describing an encounter with her unckle, after which she became a nun! \”One day, walking in the garden, Sassoon showed her a petal and said: “You have to believe someone created that.” “I recognised at that moment that, yes, someone had,” she says. “Siegfried was right.”\” [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/25/siegfried-sassoon-opera-silver-birch-sister-jessica-gatty] […]
Descriptions of battles, by those who take part, always have the same basic elements (while differing in detail). Bullets are flying, bombs are falling, artillery shells exploding, mines being tripped, tanks grinding over trenches, flame-throwers burning. Men die at random, as a result of pure chance – a small movement to left or right, ducking
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\”Fake News\” is nothing new. It began as a means of establishing the first religions, and continued as a means of establishing each new religion that has arisen ever since. Establishing new religions, and electing Presidents Bush and Trump – pretty powerful stuff, fake news. [Note – this post was inspired when I heard on
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The media constantly provide fertile ground for the normalising of religious nonsense. They talk of people “falling from grace”; footballers “seeking redemption” for a mistake in a previous game; “miracles” happen in tennis matches and football games (and also in cases where one person survives a plane crash or a landslide which kills hundreds of
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No Atheists in foxholes – we\’re all out there charging the enemy.
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Hard to think of a country in the world where the most vile and cruel things are done to at least some animals (and easy to think of ones where they are done to many animals). Also hard to think of a country on the world where the most vile and cruel things are done
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I find it a comfort to realise that no normal adult human being with an IQ above, say, 85, would ever become religious from scratch, wake up one day and think, oh yes, today I will start believing in an imaginary being. No, religions only survive because children from the ages of 0-7 have religious
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Religion has the ability to take perfectly ordinary people and make them stupid and ignorant.
Throughout history, as times change, people, grumblingy, mostly change with them. Some eagerly, some reluctantly, some trying to resist for as long as possible, some who will stay put until they die. Oh, and always a few lunatics bravely marching full steam astern led by demagogues (usually religious) who convince them that the age before
