21-02-2022, 10:37 AM
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1758
"As the government of the United States of America is NOT IN ANY SENSE FOUNDED ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,--as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of Musselmen,--and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mohammedan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever interrupt the harmony existing between the two countries."
George Washington
'The problem with secularism is not intolerance, as Tory peer Baroness Warsi claims; itÔÇÖs snobbery.
Intellectual snobbery, actually. Secularists see religious people as none too bright. Sorry.
Honestly, no offence intended, but to a non-believer, the leap of logic required to aithfully invest in the concept of a supernatural being ÔÇö one that is turned to in times of minor personal crisis but takes a laissez-faire approach to war and genocide ÔÇö is so great as to appear little short of ridiculous.
So a person with faith appears ridiculous, too.
I know this is wrong. I know this is judgmental. I admire a lot of the principles of religious faith.
I am certainly not intolerant of those who wish to behave charitably towards their fellow man.
But the logic. I cannot get beyond the logic.
ÔÇÿHow can you believe that?ÔÇÖ I wonder. ÔÇÿYou seemed so sensible.ÔÇÖ
Baroness Warsi
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
Frank Moore Colby
"People who dismiss the unemployed as parasites, fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognised by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such, is the ruling class in a capitalist society"
J Read
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.ÔÇØ
Jorge Luis Borge
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others--you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1758
"As the government of the United States of America is NOT IN ANY SENSE FOUNDED ON THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION,--as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of Musselmen,--and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mohammedan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever interrupt the harmony existing between the two countries."
George Washington
'The problem with secularism is not intolerance, as Tory peer Baroness Warsi claims; itÔÇÖs snobbery.
Intellectual snobbery, actually. Secularists see religious people as none too bright. Sorry.
Honestly, no offence intended, but to a non-believer, the leap of logic required to aithfully invest in the concept of a supernatural being ÔÇö one that is turned to in times of minor personal crisis but takes a laissez-faire approach to war and genocide ÔÇö is so great as to appear little short of ridiculous.
So a person with faith appears ridiculous, too.
I know this is wrong. I know this is judgmental. I admire a lot of the principles of religious faith.
I am certainly not intolerant of those who wish to behave charitably towards their fellow man.
But the logic. I cannot get beyond the logic.
ÔÇÿHow can you believe that?ÔÇÖ I wonder. ÔÇÿYou seemed so sensible.ÔÇÖ
Baroness Warsi
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
Frank Moore Colby
"People who dismiss the unemployed as parasites, fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognised by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such, is the ruling class in a capitalist society"
J Read
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.ÔÇØ
Jorge Luis Borge
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others--you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
C. S. Lewis
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)