Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or [...]
God’s not unjust, he doesn’t actually exist. We’ve been deceived. If God existed, he’d have made the world more just. – Joseph Stalin
I had some skepticism but I was trying to push the skepticism away because I believe in God. – Apocalypse Believers Await End I listen to all your prayers … for laughs.
The church, in its ignorance of and hostility to evolution (and science in general), is passing up one of its greatest opportunities to apprehend the very God it claims to represent. This irony is due to a terrible case of what may be called “small-god-ism” and is, unfortunately, encouraged by much popular theology. This theology [...]
If you’re unfamiliar with the situation, my parents are fundamentalist Christians who kicked me out of their house and cut me off financially when I was 19 because I refused to attend seven hours of church a week. They live in a black and white reality they’ve constructed for themselves. They partition the world into [...]
Reason is obviously not a powerful motivator in the general population – evidence includes: Petroleum is a non-renewable resource, vehicle fuel is made from petroleum, the price of petroleum will only increase over time as supply dwindles, and vehicle resale value depreciates very quickly: therefore fuel economy should be a determining factor in vehicle selection [...]
We play upon the psychological superstitions and fears of the enemy. The method is very effective. – First Lieutenant Peter BoniQuoted in io9.com article Just like Uncle Sam says, traitors and Communists alike burn in hell.
Twenty-six participants were given Aesop’s advert for hard work and another 26 were given Kafka’s more pessimistic tale. As predicted participants who read Kafka’s story perceived it as a threat to the way they viewed the world. They reacted to this threat by affirming their cultural identities more strongly than those who had read Aesop’s [...]
[via Everything is Terrible] Disappointed we ended up with Myers and not Nye? I was.
Once people accept the external valuation of a Higher Power, they are highly unlikely to go cold turkey. They may however, switch drugs, converting from one Higher Power to another, provided that they do it with intensity. In religion, it is a common observation that converts are always the most observant and faithful. It is [...]
