Tag: religion
member name: Bill Allin
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August 26, 2006 06:00 PM EDT --
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
Science plays a critically important role in our lives. It not only influences the technology we use, it also affects our politics (global warming being but one example), our religion ("Is God just . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who
is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein, . . .
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . .
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October 05, 2006 10:44 AM EDT --
There are two ways to discuss religion. One is an intellectual discussion, with each party sharing facts (or "discoveries" believed to be facts) for the purpose of learning more—a shared . . .
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November 20, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and satirist (1742–1799)
Any belief is, almost by definition, . . .
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December 24, 2006 04:10 PM EST --
After several years of cowering in fear of the wrath of loudmouths of the politically correct movement, by using "Happy Holidays!" or "Season’s Greetings!", several large businesses . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:39 PM EDT --
Warning: The following article contains adult thinking. Some readers may be offended because they have no idea what the article is about.
"Everything you see or hear or experience in any . . .
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August 10, 2006 04:15 PM EDT --
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should . . .
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August 11, 2006 11:23 AM EDT --
In a different forum, a reader of my article about judging people based on their actions rather than on their words, my response to one of those who replied seemed to deserve its own place.
Naomi wrote: . . .
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November 03, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
- Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
What Nizer called true religion, some today call spirituality. Or something close. We don't have a good . . .
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December 29, 2006 04:02 PM EST --
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry, author and columnist (1947- )
As I see it, there are only two reasons why people want . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
- Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (1958- ), in his comic strip Calvin & Hobbes
If only...
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July 12, 2006 04:56 PM EDT --
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline for life would no longer teach me anything.
- Alyson Jones
Therein lies the secret to life.
While so many people . . .
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July 29, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine, American . . .
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October 10, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human . . .
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February 16, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
- Bob Moawad, Chairman and CEO of Edge Learning Institute . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:11 PM EST --
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
- Herbert Spencer
A well-educated person may be stoked full of knowledge. But so is an encyclopedia. Unused encyclopedias are used as . . .
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November 13, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
- French proverb
Set aside the facts that we can't agree on the meaning of "beauty," "virtue" is an almost forgotten . . .
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April 30, 2008 08:35 PM EDT --
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born Canadian writer (b. 1933)
One dictionary defines stupidity . . .
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