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Many #religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
―Christopher Hitchens
Many #religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
―Christopher Hitchens
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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
—Marcus Aurelius
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
—Marcus Aurelius
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Basado en un meme que vi por ahí de autor desconocido.
Based on a unknow author meme.
#ra #egiptiangod #god #egypt #egipto #diosegipcio #bird #pajaro #cartoon #caricatura #mastoart
Basado en un meme que vi por ahí de autor desconocido.
Based on a unknow author meme.
#ra #egiptiangod #god #egypt #egipto #diosegipcio #bird #pajaro #cartoon #caricatura #mastoart
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Seen elsewhere as an unattributed screenshot with no alt-text, and transcribed:
And God created Cat
• On the first day of creation, #God created the #cat.
• On the second day, God created man to serve the cat.
• On the third day, God created tuna, mice, and all the animals of the earth to serve as potential food for the cat.
• On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the cat.
• On the fifth day, God created the ball of yarn, the feather thingie on a string, and the catnip mouse so that the cat might or might not be amused.
• On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the cat healthy and the man broke.
• On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but the cat woke him up at 5 AM.
Seen elsewhere as an unattributed screenshot with no alt-text, and transcribed:
And God created Cat
• On the first day of creation, #God created the #cat.
• On the second day, God created man to serve the cat.
• On the third day, God created tuna, mice, and all the animals of the earth to serve as potential food for the cat.
• On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the cat.
• On the fifth day, God created the ball of yarn, the feather thingie on a string, and the catnip mouse so that the cat might or might not be amused.
• On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the cat healthy and the man broke.
• On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but the cat woke him up at 5 AM.
"The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy.”
~ Ibid.
#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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“Beyond our zealous faith, the other Great American preoccupation—the one we're most famous for, the one that makes our streets proverbially paved with gold unless proverbially paved with strip malls—is money.
It would be a great mistake to think that money and faith live in separate realms. Faith can be the biggest cash cow of them all.”
~ Ibid., p. 33
#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #capitalism #money #God
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Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
Today in Labor History October 12, 1892: The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by U.S. school children, without any mention of god. The Pledge went through several iterations over the following decades, but it was not until 1954 that the word “god” was added to it, to ingrain in U.S. children how much superior they were to the godless communists in the USSR.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #patriotism #ussr #ColdWar #anticommunism #communism #school #children #god #atheism
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Isn’t complete #Genocide what #Hitler and #Nazi’s wanted to accomplish?
Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu says #Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish
“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu tells Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank #God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on Mein Kampf.”
Eliyahu says #Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlement, but says Jewish towns won’t be “fenced in inside cantons.”
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Isn’t complete #Genocide what #Hitler and #Nazi’s wanted to accomplish?
Minister says Israel racing ahead to wipe out Gaza, will make it Jewish
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu says #Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish
“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu tells Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank #God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on Mein Kampf.”
Eliyahu says #Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlement, but says Jewish towns won’t be “fenced in inside cantons.”
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