Atheists & Agnostics

onager

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15. That cracked me up too.

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 09:51 AM

Oct 2015

As Mark Twain wrote long ago, in the context of slavery: the Church has bitterly fought, or kept quiet, on just about every attempt to advance human social progress. Then, when society finally decides in favor of progress, the Church tries to hog the credit for it. And pretends it was in favor of that progress all along.

A hundred years from now, I'd guess the RCC will be trying to take credit for the women's rights movements, the gay rights movement, etc.

But probably not the New/Old Atheist Movement. Because we're just a bunch of abrasive assholes.

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