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posted by Infidel753 at 12:22 AM
11 September 2021
About Me
- Name: Infidel753
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
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God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
14 Comments:
Imagine that,
Imagine people living entire lives completely unconcerned with what an invisible Sky-daddy wants. Or what may happen if He doesn't get what He wants.
Imagine people thinking about what a fair, just and righteous society might look like independent of what Sky-daddy might think.
Imagine people dedicating their lives to creating that society through hard work because Sky daddy isn't there to do it for us.
Imagine judging people by how they treat other people and how they support a just society instead of how well they entertain an imaginary Sky-daddy.
Imagine people doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing.
Imagine living this life and not assuming there is any payoff or punishment in any afterlife.
Religion mixed with hate. A deadly combination and we see it everyday. They must be two sides to the same coin.
"We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight."---John Lennon
Absolutely!
I saw a meme that would have been a perfect comment here. Apparently, I didn't save it and I can't remember exactly what it said. Getting old is no fun. (But it's better than the alternative.)
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." --Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics
"God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups." — Oliver Markus
amen
My husband said he wants Imagine played at his funeral. Seeing that we're Buddhist, that would be a little weird... but maybe.
It isn't hard to do...
Imagine people treating each decently because we are all human beings instead of forming tribes based around their preferred Sky Daddy. Wouldn't that be something??
It would be a much better world. Certainly one with a lot less terrorism. Maybe we'll get there someday.
Art, I wouldn't mind some sky daddy (or mommy) near so much as some here & now 'guru' that people follow mindlessly
The problem isn't so much the sky daddy (who is imaginary), it's the people who believe in the sky daddy and use it to frame their own prejudices as enforceable moral absolutes.
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