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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 24, 2013 at 6:31pm

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other. They say in a single breath: "God and the liberty of man," "God and the dignity, justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men" — regardless of the fatal logic by virtue of which, if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. For, if God is, he is necessarily the eternal, supreme, absolute master, and, if such a master exists, man is a slave; now, if he is a slave, neither justice, nor equality, nor fraternity, nor prosperity are possible for him. In vain, flying in the face of good sense and all the teachings of history, do they represent their God as animated by the tenderest love of human liberty: a master, whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to show himself, remains none the less always a master. His existence necessarily implies the slavery of all that is beneath him. Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist.  -- Mikhail Bakunin

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 5, 2013 at 8:17pm

Florida woman finds ‘sign from God’ on Goldfish cracker

It’s a fishy story, but the woman telling it believes it's pure gold. The Florida resident says the markings she found on a Goldfish crackerare a direct message affirming her Christian faith.

“I believe that it’s a sign, a sign from God,” Patti Burke told WKMG. “He is still in our life every day, and he wants to show that to his people.”

It's not quite manna, but in Burke's eyes it's a manifestation of her faith. [sigh]

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 24, 2013 at 11:16am

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 22, 2013 at 6:44pm

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Pat Robertson warns of ‘scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible’

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 16, 2013 at 9:39am

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
- Robert A. Heinlein in Assignment in Eternity (1953)

"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men."
- Robert A. Heinlein in Assignment in Eternity (1953)

"Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too."
- Robert A. Heinlein in Revolt in 2100 (1953)

"The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. "
- Robert A. Heinlein in Revolt in 2100 (1953)

"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."
- Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973)

"Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy"is the most amazing — with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place."
- Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 16, 2013 at 9:27am

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

-- Michel de Montaigne

Comment by Subgenius on March 13, 2013 at 3:44pm

Divorcing ones self from religious language is a valuable teaching tool.

Comment by Liam S. on March 12, 2013 at 6:20pm

But a human is an animate life form. :/

And maybe they had passed on their genes? 

Anyway - I don't see any particular harm in the usage of the language. 

Comment by Subgenius on March 12, 2013 at 5:23pm

Phrases like "passed away" and "passed on" do carry some degree of religious significance. It relates to the idea of a soul. An inanimate life form which dies does not pass on.

Comment by Frank Lee on March 11, 2013 at 5:19pm

Liam and Old Union, "gesundheit" means "health", and terms like "put to sleep" or "passed away" have no religious significance.  Who cares?  Hell (which I don't believe in), I say stuff like "oh my god" or "God damn it" all the time even though I don't believe in the big guy.  As LS says, they're mainstream phrases or figures of speech.  Religious cursing or swearing means a lot to some, it's punctuation or a means for emphasis for me.

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