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“Eppur si muove” (Galileo)
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“Eppur si muove” (and yet it moves) ; …the phrase Galileo is said to have uttered after being forced to recant his statement that the earth moves.
Read Moregods offer no rewards for intellect (M. Twain)
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“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.” — Mark Twain
Read MoreAfter careful consideration, …this person keeping score is me.
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“I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do […]
Read MoreForget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – […]
Read MoreIt takes a cartoon — theoatmeal.com
This cartoon set is so funny and on-the-mark. I have a mind to print a select set and post them on a few church bulletin boards. There are more than this one below. Check ’em out at www.theoatmeal.com/religion/
Read MoreAFTERWORD to the book Letter to a Christian Nation
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Dog BLOG, How religion poisons everything, Questions to ask yourself
Read this at my funeral (the whole thing – not just the quote below), as a last message to the biggest crowd i can muster. 😉 www.samharris.org/site/full_text/afterword-to-the-vintage-books-edition/ What we need is a discourse about ethics and spiritual experience that is as unconstrained by ancient ignorance as the discourse of science already is. Science really does […]
Read MoreAtheist at a funeral
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Dog BLOG, Things that make you go hmmmmm.
My atheism seemed to be the buzz among friends at the viewing and funeral of a close friend. Conversations around the room were going on in small groups. Every so often the groups would morph as new friends would arrive, and people would move on to see the corpse of our friend. Three different times, […]
Read MoreFathers’ Day is a religious holiday
One day I was paid a personally meaningful compliment by a friend that I run with. He said, “[Atom] is one of the most moral people I know.” He said this to the small group — all mormons — in response to a line of conversation about morality, knowing that I am a non-believer. That’s […]
Read MoreHitchens’ Ten Commandments are a better code to live by
…exerpt from Vanity Fair article : I am trying my best not to view things through a smug later prism. Only the Almighty can scan matters sub specie aeternitatis: from the viewpoint of eternity. One must also avoid cultural and historical relativism: there’s no point in retroactively ordering the Children of Israel to develop a germ […]
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