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Carl Sagan on the human conceit
Man created god in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic, and violent.
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The Ontological Argument for God (via ryking)
It’s so obvious. The only way apologetics work is by misappropriating words and obscuring or switching their meanings; equivocation. The word “God” itself has endless definitions which allow it to be logically abused unlike any other.
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And then five minutes later youre looking at the lifecycle of a parasitic worm whose job is to bury itself in the eyeball of a little lamb and eat the eyeball from inside while the lamb dies in horrible agony and then you turn to them and say, Yeah, where is your God now?
You know I mean you got You cant just say there is a God because well, the world I beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
(via depressingfacts)
Neil Tyson obliterates this argument for the existence of god. A very weak argument, in my opinion.
Coming Out In America is a new film about atheism in America.
“Most people don’t believe in God, they believe in believing in God”
Watching this right now.
Eddie Izzard “Stripped”: God and Atheism (2:35)
“If there was a God, don’t you think he would have flicked Hitler’s head off? Don’t you think? You know. ‘Oh, I’m not allowed to do anything’— Well, fuck off, then! If you’re ‘not allowed to do anything’, then what’s the use? Just piss off and stop asking us to mumble things on Sundays!”
Best part. XD
This week is Parent Conference week. We meet with all of the parents of the kids in our advisory class. Today I met with a bright young student and her parents. She is succeeding in almost every subject. On top of doing well in school, her parents are having her learn to play the piano, she’s enrolled in a local gym, and is running every weekend on the school track.
She’s just having problem in one subject: science. The only unit that’s been covered so far? Evolution.
I offered to help her study.
On the way out, one of the parents grabbed my arm and said, “I really want you to stress that evolution is just a theory.”
I was too in shock to say anything. I mean, yeah I know I’ve heard about it happening, but I’ve never had a PARENT tell me that they want me, as a teacher, to tell the child that a standard of education isn’t important.
Sure. We’ll go over theory when I help her study.
The theory of gravity.
The theory of plate techtonics.
The theory of germs.
Fuck you. You’re harming your child’s education. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Helvetebrann being a total badass.
True story, Stephen.
thanks some-c0ld-tea :-)
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Submission from gustaw:
“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.” —Bertrand Russel in Illustrated, 1952
I <3 Mr. Russel.
-Tyler
(Source: faqueers)
This makes me laugh every time I see it.
forever reblog.
lol it’s amazing just how relevant this is to life.
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