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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Thomas Paine (Deist?) – Author of "Common Sense"
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."
"Revelation is a communication of something which the person to whom the thing id revealed did not know before. For if I have done, a thing, or seen it done, it needs no Revelation to tell me, I have done or seen it done nor enable me to tell it or write it. Revelation therefore cannot be applied to anything done upon earth, of which man is himself actor or witness and consequently all the historical part of the Bible which is almost the whole of it, is not within the meaning and compass of the word Revelation and therefore is not the Word of God."-- Thomas Paine The Age of Reason
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." From - The Age of Reason
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. "
Labeled an atheist, but actually a deist, raised by Quakers, who was extremely critical of organized religion. According to Carl Sagan in The Demon Haunted World, "later generations reviled him for his social and religious views. Theodore Roosevelt called him a 'filthy little atheist.' . . . He is probably the most illustrious American Revolutionary uncommemorated by a monument in Washington, D.C."
The Age of Reason also attacks Christianity as a system of superstition that "produces fanatics" and "serves the purposes of despotism." When the book reached England, several sellers were convicted of blasphemy and jailed.
"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, English born American author and revolutionary leader (1737-1809).
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
William Howard Taft
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William Howard Taft, U.S. President
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
who's ****in earth do you think it is then,cut and paste,cut and paste, are you afraid to stand up and be counted for who you are,you **** head coward,go hide some where else you lonely moron, and leave this ****in site to god believers.
we dont ****in want your sort here,i find most of your posts ****in offencive, **** brain mother ****in,**** sucking, whoring son of a *****.**** off.
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914?).
Author of The Devil's Dictionary. Here are some entries:
FAITH: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
RELIGION: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
OCEAN: A body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man- who has no gills.
PRAY: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
SAINT: A dead sinner revised and edited.
In the definition of occident, he claims christians to be "a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call 'war' and 'commerce'".
For more information on Ambrose Bierce, visit the Ambrose Bierce Appreciate Society.
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Sigmund Freud
"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. "
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."
Freud certainly regarded belief in God as an illusion that mature men and women should lay aside. The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind. [A History of God]
-Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and pioneer psychoanalyst (1856-1939).
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=4814782
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson are camping at night. Holmes nudges his colleague and asks " Tell me what you see?" ?
Dr. Watson ponders then says " I see millions of stars" ..........
"Well !! what does that tell you" ?
Watson thinks a while then says " That there are billions of galaxies & planets: that god is all powerful and we are insignificant. Why what does it tell you Holmes?
"Watson, some thieving bugger has stolen our tent !!!!"
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
Denis Diderot
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
-Denis Diderot, French philosopher, author, and encyclopedist (1713-1784).
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
The fable of 'christ'
Luigi Cascioli, after having irrefutably demonstrated in his book "The Fable of Christ" that the facts presented as true and historical in the 'Holy Scriptures' are in reality false, first of all those in regard to the figure of Jesus, called the Christ, which has been based on a certain John of Gamala, son of Judas the Galilean of the cast of Hasmoneans, acknowledged as descending directly from the house of David, concludes his studies with a DENUNCIATION-LAWSUIT against the Catholic Church, in the person of Don Enrico Righi, parish-rector of the ex. Diocese of Bagnoregio (VT), for abuse of the popular credulity (Art. 661 C.P.) and for impersonation.
The formal complaint was lodged at the Court of Viterbo on the 11th of september 2002. Thanks to the intervention of the Court of Perugia regarding the absurd request of dismissal by Public Prosecutor Dr, Renzo Petroselli, Don Enrico Righi has been added into the registry of inquiry (see lawsuit: account of facts at the Court of Perugia on 24/03/2004). After the absurd request of dismissal received from the Court of Viterbo the lawsuit has been tranferred to the Court of Strasbourg following the petition presented by Luigi Cascioli to the European Court of Human Rights.
Further updates @ http://www.luigicascioli.eu/en_1.htm
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Re: Blind faith psychosis.Draft three
millions of people watch football every week in the UK at the match, in pubs and at home worldwide hundreds of millions do yet football related violence accounts for a handful of deaths a year and quite a few arrests.
In contrast religiously inspired terrorist killings scores of people a year, the religiously inspired attempts to sabotaging attempts to combat aids in Africa by spreading anti-condom propaganda is responsible for many thousands of deaths. In Nicaragua last month religious conservatives passed a law banning all abortions even when the pregnancy will kill both the mother and the foetus this religiously inspired law will condemn many young women to needless deaths, the list of harm caused to the world by theism just goes on and on football doesn’t even come close on either an absolute or relative level.
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