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Brian Engler
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whereas scientists study the physical world, and theologians the divine one, humanities-humanists study the human world of art, history, and culture. Non-religious humanists make their moral choices based on human well-being, not divine
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“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe.”
― The Hoarder
― The Hoarder
“Perhaps the most obvious paradox of Christian nationalism is that it preaches love but everywhere practices intolerance, even hate.”
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
“Thomas Paine had come to believe that religion was the worst form of tyranny because it pursued you through death and into eternity—something no king or despot had yet managed to do. At last, Marcus settled on repeating something Thomas himself had written. “ ‘My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Time's Convert
― Time's Convert
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