This is a doctrine that cannot be believed by anyone who has studied anything scientific, anything historical, anything archeological, anything paleological, anything biological. It can only be believed by someone who wants to be a plaything and a slave of a pitiless and totalitarian power. How glad we should be that the evidence for this […]
Read MoreHitchens answers a common question of believers: Q: Why do so many people believe? Are they just stupid? (a thoughtful answer) His answer is respectful and accurate, and as usual, pointed. We didn’t know why the heavens darkened and rain and hail fell. We didn’t know why there were earthquakes, floods. It was our first […]
Read MoreThis is funny, and makes some good points
Read MoreMormons are never taught any uncomfortable history in church. Many mormons don’t know that their founder, Joseph Smith, married more than 30 women; all before it was officially sanctioned by church policy
Read MoreReligion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers any explanation of anything important. Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreViolent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive towards children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. The bible may, indeed does contain a warrant for human trafficking, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and […]
Read MoreReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand
Read MoreContradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreThe creative mind is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others (Ayn Rand)
Read MoreMoney demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talents to their reason. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. Ayn Rand
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