Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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