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<big><big>"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."</big></big> – Don Hirschberg | <big><big>"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."</big></big> – Don Hirschberg | ||
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<big><big>"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."</big></big> –- H L Mencken, Minority Report (1956), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations | <big><big>"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."</big></big> –- H L Mencken, Minority Report (1956), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations | ||
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My blog can be found at Rationalblogs but you don't have to read it if you don't want to.
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"He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." – Thomas Jefferson
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." – Don Hirschberg
"The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected." –- H L Mencken, in American Mercury (March, 1930)
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." –- H L Mencken, Minority Report (1956), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations
My first taste of American Christian fundamentalism
In 1986 I stayed with my sister-in-law in Illinois and we took a day trip to Chicago on the train in order to do some shopping. On the way back I overheard two women in the row behind me discussing another woman of their common acquaintance.
- First Woman - So I asked her, "Well do you believe in Adam and Eve" and she said "No"
- Second Woman - You mean she is some sort of atheist?
While I find most of Genesis perfectly credible I have one big problem with the whole critter creation scheme. Now if God created all the beasts of the field and fowls of the air, then he presumably created them as male and female so that they could reproduce. So why the hell did he create man as a one off? What was he thinking? Eve only came along as an afterthought. How could a perfect God cock this one up?
- A. Adam was going to die out after three score years and ten, well maybe a bit less (unless the wolves suckled him as a baby) as he must have been created in some sort of adult state in order to be able to fend for himself. So if he was going to die out why bother with him in the first place?
- B. Adam would be immortal. Well that sounds a bit dull, what was he supposed to do on his own for the rest of eternity? Although I suppose as he had a full set of sexual organs he could sort of amuse himself a bit. And he could always go dinosaur watching.
Neither answer seems plausible. Unless someone can come up with something better I am liable to have a crisis of faith.
My lucky day
My 100% accurate astrologer/tarot reader/Reiki practioner Jenna has just sent me this wonderful present.
