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By The Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends

by J. David Osborne (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 27, 2015 05:22PM

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After the People Lights Have Gone Off

by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 11, 2015 11:41AM

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: atheism, religion

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“I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?”
― Walker Percy

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“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

tags: christianity, religion, separation-of-church-and-state, skepticism

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“Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Least of My Scars

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“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments … The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: christianity, constitution, god, jesus, mohammed, religion, satan, satanism, separation-of-church-and-state, zealots

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