The influence of religion in the world has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
Tag: atheism
Imagine
Imaginary
friends destroy people
and even countries
Homage to Barcelona
It is a tiny tiny comfort, in these awful times, to know that these fundamentalist bastards, in the last second as they die, will realise, to their horror, that there is no afterlife, that their whole life, and the evil they did in it, was all based on a lie told to them by other evil and ignorant men. Knowledge of a completely wasted life – a punishment to fit their crimes.
Imagine
Imaginary
friends destroy people
and even countries
What happens in the cave, stays in the cave
If Neanderthals had been the hominid species to survive, Neanderthal scientists would be analysing their DNA to see what percentage of sapiens genes they carried, and speculating about the sexual relationship between the two groups (sex with sapiens? Ergh!)
Writers must stop using the word must
Whenever you see an article whose headline includes the word “must” for some action the writer is demanding a government take, you can be certain that the action in question will not be taken.
Dancing to the music of time
Dark matter distribution:
Is it just me?
Childish things
Odd that several billions of a creature named, surely ironically, Homo sapiens, are unable in adulthood to leave behind the belief (held usually by children under seven) in an imaginary friend or friends. Even odder that, unlike children, most of the afflicted adults would like to kill those with different imaginary friends.
Labels
When I was seven I was a new atheist, now I am over 70 you’d have to say I’m an old atheist. But, you know, still a live atheist, that’s the label that matters.
No hope
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]
What hope is there for the world when even apparently smart and sophisticated people are capable of such ignorance and stupidity? Ruining their lives because of a lack of knowledge, or a refusal to accept knowledge.
