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ItsjustMe

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Thu Feb 23, 2023, 07:05 PM Feb 2023

Religion Is an Insult to human dignity [View all]

Religion Is an Insult to human dignity. With or without It you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion ... Steven Weinberg

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

A foolish faith In authority Is the worst enemy of truth - Albert Einstein

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I generally find it a waste of time trying to discuss anything with people who can't tell truth from lies.

"In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware that there was anything wrong about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind -- and then the texts were read aloud to us to make the matter sure; if the slaves themselves had an aversion to slavery they were wise and said nothing." --Mark Twain

I will never understand the Conservative opinion that It should be easy to hurt people and hard to get healed.

A conservative Is someone who maintains that health care Is not a fundamental right, but gun ownership Is.

People Were Created To Be Loved
Things Were Created To Be Used
The Reason The World Is In Chaos
Is Because Things Are Being Loved
And People Are Being Used

Don't do good things to get into heaven. Do good things so that others won't live in hell.

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Because God says so... keithbvadu2 Feb 2023 #1
I do not believe in a God, especially a "sky god", but walkingman Feb 2023 #2
Any faith in humans is misplaced Random Boomer Feb 2023 #27
I think religion deprives people of their basic humanity Walleye Feb 2023 #3
and we can be absolved of anything. Like an ultimate Get Out of Jail Free card. Such utter BS. Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #5
Also, Do not do unto others that which is hateful to you. Not that difficult Walleye Feb 2023 #13
All pretty simple; Jesus, Buddha, Allah or whoever the prophet was. Teachers of acceptance. Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #16
Good post!! Karadeniz Feb 2023 #4
Fantastic post. LoisB Feb 2023 #6
I love these quotes! calimary Feb 2023 #7
I think Auschwitz disproved the theory of god. n/t spike jones Feb 2023 #8
Catholics perpetuate their money making BOSSHOG Feb 2023 #9
good observation. Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #17
I was born and raised catholic BOSSHOG Feb 2023 #20
Not sure but it is understandable! Thanks for the insight. Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #21
I look at it as a study of culture. multigraincracker Feb 2023 #10
Fight the real enemy spike jones Feb 2023 #11
powerful. What year was that? I recall she took a world of shit for it. n/t Evolve Dammit Feb 2023 #18
....👍 Duppers Feb 2023 #12
Good post! Love all the quotes! lucca18 Feb 2023 #14
Agreed, emphatically Lemonwurst Feb 2023 #15
We are being baited with millions of $$$ in tv ads. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2023 #19
I'm not religulous, and I don't identify with any faith. But I don't agree that religion is by Martin68 Feb 2023 #22
I understand what you wrote, and there is a lot of truth to it, but don't forget that many lives Escurumbele Feb 2023 #26
As I pointed out in my post above, religion does not have a monopoly on genocide and Martin68 Feb 2023 #28
Faith rejects doubt. Doubt is the basis of reason. MayReasonRule Feb 2023 #30
I see "faith" or "blind faith" as the mantra of conservatives. Martin68 Feb 2023 #31
I agree. Experiential learning is the very basis of all aspects of human evolvement. MayReasonRule Feb 2023 #32
Great quotes Luck Counts Feb 2023 #23
That quote you just wrote should be included in the list...Well done! Escurumbele Feb 2023 #25
Inculcation-ariums MayReasonRule Feb 2023 #33
Great collection of quotes and thoughts, thank you. Escurumbele Feb 2023 #24
Faith rejects doubt, which is the very basis of reason.. MayReasonRule Feb 2023 #29
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