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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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Reactionary extremists like Vought/Vance/Trump hate #science, democracy, and accountability so much that they struggle greatly with facts and coherence.
That's why empty people like Lawrence Krauss are so valuable to the reactionary enterprise.
Normal people don't support destroying science and the academy. But with a big enough web of lies, some will.
Great piece here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-science-real-and-otherwise/
Reactionary extremists like Vought/Vance/Trump hate #science, democracy, and accountability so much that they struggle greatly with facts and coherence.
That's why empty people like Lawrence Krauss are so valuable to the reactionary enterprise.
Normal people don't support destroying science and the academy. But with a big enough web of lies, some will.
Great piece here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-science-real-and-otherwise/
I've often wondered why atheists seem to better exemplify the values and ethics that the Christian churches espouse, supposedly in the name of some dude that may or may not have lived 2,000 years ago. And I can't help but think that for many of them it's all just an act, that they don't actually believe a word of it.
#religion #atheism #cruelty #fascism #jesus #christianity #church #capitalism #poverty #socialism #anarchism #community #resist
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here's your #WordlePoetry #wordle #song
#Wordle1644 4/6 to the tune of #JingleBells
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛Assholes all the way
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛Danger at every twist
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨Pine trees scratch my skin
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩The Wise men didn't exist
It was all made up
Just to create a myth
Now we all sing dumb songs
& give unwanted gifts
Bezos will roll in dough
While we go into debt
Then we’ll get into fights
For which greetings we said
Fuck Christmas!
Happy #ReverseWordle 💙
Alex Akselrod
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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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