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I pray that we may one day think clearly enough about these matters to render our children incapable of killing themselves over their books. If not our children, then I suspect it could well be too late for us, because while it has never been difficult to meet your maker, in 50 years it will simply be too easy to drag everyone else along to meet him with you.
— Jul 30, 2025 01:17AM
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The Bible…was the work of sand-strewn men and women…for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology. To rely on such a document as the basis for our worldview…is to repudiate 2000 years of civilising insights that the human mind has only just begun to inscribe upon itself through secular politics and scientific culture.
— Jul 30, 2025 01:05AM
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“Mothers were skewered on swords as their children watched. Young women were stripped and raped in broad daylight, then set on fire. A pregnant woman’s belly was slit open, her fetus raised skyward on the tip of sword” - India, 2002
— Jul 22, 2025 09:01PM
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The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
— Jul 22, 2025 08:55PM
