Claude Monet
Life, the Universe and Everything
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There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching — an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence. You do not, for instance find that attitude in Socrates. You find him quite bland and urbane toward the people who would not listen to him; and it is, to my mind, far more worthy of a sage to take that line than to take the line of indignation.
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| — | Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian (via philphys) |
“Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your idea and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does?… The only time it isn’t good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
-Ernest Hemingway
E como é que você acredita em Deus, se tem tanta gente que está super bem e no instante seguinte cai morta?
Dia de Todos os Santos de 1755, em Lisboa. Estando as igrejas da Capital
repletas de fiéis, veio um terremoto. Quem sobreviveu ao terremoto foi engolido pelas chamas provocadas pelos escombros sobre as velas acesas. Quem ainda conseguiu sobreviver, em seguida foi engolido por um tsunami. Milhares e milhares de pessoas morreram rezando. A família real sobreviveu porque estava praticando um ato que contrariava a suposta vontade de Deus. Naquele domingo santo, dia de fervorosas
adorações, estava fazendo churrasco e descansando na casa de verão, em Queluz.
Não existe amizade entre crente e não crente (by idebatista)
Say no to religion
