Freedom
Freedom of religion? Fine, whatever. But what the rest of us need is freedom from religion.
atheism
By the hair
The fanaticism of religions is directly proportional to their enthusiasm for making blasphemy a crime, and to peculiar fetishes about hair on the head, and to their concern about which body organs people rub together for pleasure.
Gotta be kidding!
Every small detail you discover about religious beliefs make you think – \”how on earth could any sentient being believe THAT?\” Then you come to the large details, and you wonder how any being higher in the evolutionary scale than slime mould could believe THOSE.
Fence sitting
Saying you are a \”centrist politician\” is like saying you are an agnostic. In both cases there is a failure to recognise that there is no middle position, that you have to actually settle for either reality or nonsense, there is nothing in between.
GKC
As Chesterton should have said: If you can take a person away from reality you can have them believing in naturopathy, past-life regression, chiropractic, neoconservatism, ideology, climate denial, austerity, alt-right, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, religion, ghosts, clairvoyance, anything really.
Starry starry night
When you wish upon a star, makes a big difference which one you choose. Your wish will take thousands, millions, billions of years to reach it, and the same time to get back to grant your wish. No wonder wishes don\’t get granted, eh? Prayers, too.
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Tin Tin
It occurs to me that many of the reports of \”haunted houses\” that involve odd sounds, may be reports by people who suffer from undiagnosed tinnitus. Certainly my diagnosed case (one of the 21 side effects I suffered from chemotherapy) results in me apparently hearing variously voices, whistling, music. Alone, in a house with a
I pass
A pet hate of mine is the use of the term \”He/she passed\” meaning they died. It began, I guess, as a euphemism – \”passed away\” being a more gentle way of saying \”died\”. It gave a mental image of someone gently leaving life this Earth, having, in the Victorian term, a \”good death\”. But