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Comment by Sydni Moser on October 9, 2010 at 6:24pm

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." -Arthur C. Clarke

Comment by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on October 8, 2010 at 1:01pm

"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of the vale of woe, the halo of which is religion. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers from the chain, not so that man [or woman] will wear the chain without any fantasy or consolation but so that he [or she] will shake off the chain and cull the living flower." - Karl Marx

Comment by Svendsen on October 8, 2010 at 10:01am

"If you really believe there's man in the sky keeping score something is wrong with you" - George Carlin

Comment by Sydni Moser on October 8, 2010 at 8:08am

“Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.”
— Scott D. Weitzenhoffer, Evolution Vs. Creationism: An introduction (2004)

Comment by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on October 7, 2010 at 7:58pm

If you believe the Bible is inerrant then you have to be a geocentrist, or you're not really a literalist...
[From Skycomet's Bible Reading Project]
"Then spake Joshua to the Lord... and he said in the sight of Israel, 'Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon." And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go down about a whole day." - Joshua 10:12 - 13

Comment by DeSwiss on October 2, 2010 at 6:54pm

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ~ Gore Vidal

"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like." ~ William O. Douglas

"Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed." ~ Vanna Bonta

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” ~ Voltaire

“Friends are relatives you make for yourself.” ~ Eustache Deschamps

Comment by Josh Campbell on October 1, 2010 at 1:37pm

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg

Comment by Adrian on October 1, 2010 at 10:37am

"Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers" ~ placard at the anti-pope rally in London (Reuters)

Comment by Sydni Moser on September 28, 2010 at 10:04am

Autumn

“After Harvest had brought in its sheaves, and Brown michaelmastide had come and robbed the trees of their leaves, which had been green and delightful in vigor, and had dyed them a yellowish colour and cast them underfoot, that transformation affected me to the depths of my heart; for it reminded me once more that there is no stability in this world. There is nothing but change and mutability. The world is not going to last. Man must forgo it. Death will thrust him down to the ground underfoot. That is everyone’s end.”

Thomas Hoccleve, or Occleve, c.1368-c.1430, was a poet and spent a good part of his life as a civil servant much like his mentor Geoffrey Chaucer. Hoccleve described the everyday life of medieval London in unmatched detailHis chief works include the autobiographical La Male Regle (The Disordered Life, 1406) and a piece written for Henry V entitled The Regement of Princes (1411).

Comment by DeSwiss on September 27, 2010 at 1:38am

"Woman, once made equal to man, becomes his superior,” ~ Socrates

"Prayer is just a way of telling god that his divine plan for you is flawed and shockingly stingy." ~ Betty Bowers

“Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed,” ~ Steven Wright

"If we were made in god's image, why aren't we invisible?" ~ a South Dakota humanist

"In risu veritas" {"In laughter there is truth"}.

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