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LET’S START WITH A RELIGIOUS JOKE TODAY

A character in the Shaw play “Man and Superman” says to another, “An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

How many uncomfortable believers do you think inhabit this globe who just can’t put down their uncomfortable feelings? I know that the more I judge (the angrier I am) the more harshly I judge others. It’s as if every judgment we make on one another in this global prison becomes just another bar in our own cages.


RELIGION BACKWARD, HATEFUL, DIVISIVE AND OUT OF IT BY
ABOUT TWO MILLENNIA

“LONDON (AP) - Anglican primates agreed Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global Anglican Communion after failing to overcome internal church disagreements about the election of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions there and in Canada.”

What can a sane man say? Religion is outdated if not dead and beyond recall. Religion has no relevance for the modern world and modern people. It increases problems, pain and psychological suffering everywhere it appears. Who but a failed modern being, one who cannot govern his own being, would require such backward teachings as modern religion offers?

Read the whole stinking story here.


A MEMBER OF THE "INLAND NORTHWEST FREETHOUGHT SOCIETY" BROUGHT THIS IN

Darwin probably has it right:

“I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity & theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds, which follow from the advance of science. It has, therefore, been always my object to avoid writing on religion, & I have confined myself to science. I may, however, have been unduly biased by the pain which it would give some members of my family, if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion” —Charles Darwin

When I think of all the religious debates around the worldly world and my own shadowy history and all the battles over religion, it seems that humankind has grown considerably more intelligent and comfortable despite our efforts to destroy and otherwise regress ourselves back to sticks and stones. The chief improving forces are always science and technology, not that those two engines of progress don't bring along problems of their own. Still those two marvelous rouges just silently and subtly keep spinning our change while the argumentative among us are busy swinging fists of debate, often over glasses of intoxicating beverages. One day we wake up from the knockout punch our interlocutor hit us with in the bar last night, and there's the wheel, next morning penicillin, then rocket travel, computer chips and, now, the Internet. Busy, busy, the good brothers of change in our knock down drag out world. We are in the ring while they are in the Universe.


STILL I GOTTA KEEP PULLING THE MONGREL'S TAIL

James Madison believed that "religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise [sic]."


LET GORE VIDAL HAVE THE LAST WORD THIS POSTING

In the last paragraph of THE GOLDEN AGE, Gore writes of evolution and eternity: "As for the human case, the generations of men come and go and are in eternity no more than bacteria upon a luminous slide, and the fall of a republic or the rise of an empire—so significant to those involved—is not detectable upon the slide even were there an interested eye to behold that steadily proliferating species which would either end in time or, with luck, become something else, since change is the nature of life, and its hope." —GORE VIDAL
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“If god lived on earth, people would break his windows!” —a Jewish joke. Seriously!