Stephen Jay Gould (via thinkfree)
The only “higher” purpose is the one we make for ourselves.
David Miliband on Fareed Zakaria GPS
Miliband just stated he is an atheist and that one should be able to say that. How refreshing. It is sad that we are still years away from seeing the same thing here. Being able to have politicians not faking faith (or staying quiet about it) because if they don’t, they would never get elected.
(via thelovelybones)
Just try to think about what were you doing before you were born.
You will be, most likely, doing the same thing after death.
Part of Sarah Palin’s irresistible appeal to her fundamentalist base is her ability to look at the camera with utter conviction and declare black to be white.
The ability to lie well is a valuable part of the fundamentalist psychology. My son isn’t gay, he just hasn’t found the right woman! Those rocks aren’t 50 million years old, they just look like it as a test of our faith! My sexless marriage isn’t foundering, it is filled with God’s spirit! The minister isn’t molesting little Maria, they’re just very close! It isn’t torture, it is being tough on terrorists!
Fundamentalists can recognize a truly audacious and talented liar from miles away. Instead of running the other way, as you might expect, they gather around the powerful liar, for they know that their own lies will be respected and protected by a leader who understands the paramount importance of preserving their whole system of denial.
“America - FUCK YEAH! (via JazKW347)
Happy 4th of July.
No, no, not because he’s the Mormon mad hatter who pollutes the cesspool known as Fox “news” even more than Steve Doocy or Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity, like the e coli in the turds floating in the water. And not because he let go unchallenged the assertion by Michael Scheuer, oozing in the guest chair like a hairy cyst, that al-Qaeda needs to blow the shit out of Someplace, USA in order for the nation to see that paranoia and bugfuck militarization is the only path. And not because Beck’s smug, pudgy face, like Karl Rove mated with a scrub brush, seems to demand routine beatings.
No, it’s because the profit-mongering prophet of American doom, who claims his new “book” (if by “book,” you mean, “a large-fonted, white-space-filled stream of consciousness vomit that’d make James Joyce in his Finnegan’s Wake days say, ‘That makes no fucking sense’”), titled Common Sense, is based on Thomas Paine’s pamphlet of the same name, just threw the badass founder under the bus.
United Nations defined:
“The heads of all the major nations of the world gather to write resolutions demanding one thing or other, that are promptly ignored.”
I’m an atheist. I champion the existent and fight irrationality, pseudoscience and paranormal claims wherever they show themselves.
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