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POPS15 Quotes by Famous Atheists Bertrand Russell: “You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”
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POPSPeople of science and religion need not disagree "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.--2 Peter 3:8" This is what I wondered aloud in Bible Study when I was 18. Maybe Genesis was a parable like most of the bible, and the earth was not literally created in six days. I asked our pastor why evolution couldn't be the method God used to create. And he called me an idiot. He was too preoccupied with shouting & stomping, being indignant and offended by the suggestion that he and a monkey have a common ancestor. That was when I was 18. I'll be 36 this month and I haven't been to church since. I'm against religion, but it's nice to see a pastor giving his students permission to at least open their minds a narrow crack. I don't know for sure, and YOU don't know either! Let's not fight about it.
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POPSBible Stickers This was thought up as an answer to the stickers put on some science textbooks that covered evolution.
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POPSAmerican fascism? From a fascinating interview w/ author Chris Hedges (son of a Presbyterian minister and a Harvard Divinity School grad) about his new book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. This guy has a sense of perspective most of us don't, based on his experience as a war correspondent for the NYT. Not a religion-basher, but a realist who's incensed both with the manipulation of entire classes of people and the cluelessness of the left when it comes to awareness of the real issues we're grappling with as a society.
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