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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the… passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The […]

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. – Thomas Jefferson Rating 3.00 out of 5

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and […]

If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion’s sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This […]

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. – Mark Twain Rating 3.00 out of 5

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding. – Batman Begins Rating 3.00 out of 5

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. – Robert A. Heinlein Rating 3.00 out of 5

If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another—but which one? Differences are crucial. – Robert A Heinlein (Time Enough For Love) Rating 3.00 out of 5

Morals— all correct moral laws— derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. – Robert A Heinlein (Starship Troopers) Correct morality can only be derived from what man is—not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. – Robert A Heinlein (Starship Troopers) Rating […]

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses’. -Jubal Harshaw in To […]