“When your enemy falls, do not rejoice, and when he stumbles, let your heart not exult.” - Proverbs 24:17.
Galaxy Song (by MontyPython)
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes….A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
—Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian (1927)
between timid and timbuktu: How we can really help Japan (hint: God is not involved)
It is encouraging to see so much compassion for what is going on around the world on this website. Social and Global awareness is something I think is so important to the betterment of the world and the attempt to better understand your fellow (hu)”man”(s) is an enterprise I will never degrade.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
—Robert M. Pirsig - American author, best known for Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values - part novel, part autobiography, part philosophical treatise. Had an IQ of 170 at age nine. Flunked out of university. Studied Eastern philosophy in India. (via helvetebrann)
Another Godless Goddess: Support Bible-Free Relief for Japan
Once again religious groups are exploiting tragedy for “spiritual” gains. This time, they are using the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Groups like The American Bible Society are going to Japan to provide aid… and to hand out Bibles and preach about Jesus. I am singling out The American…
(Source: examiner.com)
New American Bible changes some words such as "holocaust"
Some own changes of my own to bring The Bible closer to its original text:
* Jesus walked near water, as opposed to “on.”
* Referring to Mary as a “young woman of marriageable age,” as opposed to, “virgin.”
Critic of Pakistan Blasphemy Law Shot and Killed
A Pakistani government minister who had said he was getting death threats because of his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law was shot to death Wednesday.
Bhatti had been critical of the law, saying at one point, “I am ready to sacrifice my life for the principled stand I have taken…
(Source: CNN)
Richard Dawkins on Atheism
P.S. Take a look at Vintage Rachel Maddow at 6:13.
