Comments by "John Goldsworthy" (@johngoldsworthy7635) on "Smerconish: The Supreme Court comes up short" video.
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It’s OK sweetie, you’re currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial: Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger: Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining: Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. It’s not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression: Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance: Moving on... (well, maybe not)
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Christianity is the most anti science , anti reason , anti rationality faith system after Islam Yes , Newton was Christian but his findings were not the result of Bible. In fact he rejected everything that did not fit his Christian world view including quantum physics , equal rights to non Christians and atheists etc.
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.”
“Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion!”
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”
“You can look at very crowded roads and experience the illusion that those roads will always exist! You may think that the religion you belong to will always exist! Then you are so ignorant that you don't know that even the traces of the crowded roads that were once used have started to be erased!”
“Christians believe that God loves you sooo much... he created hell, just in case you don't love him back.”
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.”
“Televangelists preach a corrupted perversion of Christ's socialist teachings. Prosperity gospel is predatory capitalism masquerading as religion.”
“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.”
“A sacred cow, unexamined, feeds itself and produces a whole lot of bullshit. And nobody wants that, except the people who profit by selling you bullshit. Those are the people who try to tell you that examining or criticizing the sacred cow is taboo.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
“Religious books are medicines, which were developed to cure the society, once upon a time. But now they have been expired, expired medicines are poisons.”
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Faith is believing in that which I know ain't so."
"Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance."
"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mohandas Gandhi
"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
Eskimo:"If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
"Without religion, we'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friederich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Friederich Nietzsche
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
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“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.”
“Televangelists preach a corrupted perversion of Christ's socialist teachings. Prosperity gospel is predatory capitalism masquerading as religion.”
“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.”
“A sacred cow, unexamined, feeds itself and produces a whole lot of bullshit. And nobody wants that, except the people who profit by selling you bullshit. Those are the people who try to tell you that examining or criticizing the sacred cow is taboo.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
“Religious books are medicines, which were developed to cure the society, once upon a time. But now they have been expired, expired medicines are poisons.”
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Faith is believing in that which I know ain't so."
"Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance."
"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mohandas Gandhi
"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
Eskimo:"If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
"Without religion, we'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friederich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Friederich Nietzsche
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
"Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."
"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." - Voltaire
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven."
"God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. - Marquis De Sade
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
A country dominated by televangelism would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers, who envisioned religion as personal and spiritua, not social and political. No particular variety of religion was intended to control the political agenda, to set the community's moral tone or to judge who are the true believers and members of our society. But this is precisely the objective of the electric church.
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
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Christianity is the most anti science , anti reason , anti rationality faith system after Islam Yes , Newton was Christian but his findings were not the result of Bible. In fact he rejected everything that did not fit his Christian world view including quantum physics , equal rights to non Christians and atheists etc.
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.”
“Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion!”
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”
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@billsteinmetz540
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.”
“Televangelists preach a corrupted perversion of Christ's socialist teachings. Prosperity gospel is predatory capitalism masquerading as religion.”
“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.”
“A sacred cow, unexamined, feeds itself and produces a whole lot of bullshit. And nobody wants that, except the people who profit by selling you bullshit. Those are the people who try to tell you that examining or criticizing the sacred cow is taboo.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
“Religious books are medicines, which were developed to cure the society, once upon a time. But now they have been expired, expired medicines are poisons.”
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Faith is believing in that which I know ain't so."
"Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance."
"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mohandas Gandhi
"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
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@billsteinmetz540
"Without religion, we'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friederich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Friederich Nietzsche
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
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Christianity is the most anti science , anti reason , anti rationality faith system after Islam Yes , Newton was Christian but his findings were not the result of Bible. In fact he rejected everything that did not fit his Christian world view including quantum physics , equal rights to non Christians and atheists etc.
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.”
“Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion!”
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”
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@henrybittle5234
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”
“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.”
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”
“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
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@henrybittle5234
“A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.”
“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
“The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.”
“As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are.”
“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”
“I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.”
“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid.”
“Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . . . Then he said, "Let there be light." Which means he made the entire universe in the dark! How f*cking good is that? He's brilliant.”
“Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.”
“Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
“Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.”
Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want. And everyone else has the right to find it f*cking ridiculous.
God doesn’t prevent terrible things because:
A) He can’t
B) He doesn’t want to
C) He causes them
D) He doesn’t exist
I’ve never been insulted by hateful Satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.
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@randanderson4710
It’s OK sweetie, you’re currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial: Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger: Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining: Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. It’s not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression: Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance: Moving on... (well, maybe not)
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Beware of those who profess devotion to God. Their feigned piety is often the camouflage for their vileness and evil.
Christianity is the most anti science , anti reason , anti rationality faith system after Islam Yes , Newton was Christian but his findings were not the result of Bible. In fact he rejected everything that did not fit his Christian world view including quantum physics , equal rights to non Christians and atheists etc.
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.”
“Life is meaningful; death is meaningless and religion’s greatest betrayal to the humanity is that it gave a meaning to death, it wrongly made the death as meaningful! Declaring an ultimate ‘end’ as a hopeful ‘exit’ to somewhere is the biggest crime of the religion!”
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”
“You can look at very crowded roads and experience the illusion that those roads will always exist! You may think that the religion you belong to will always exist! Then you are so ignorant that you don't know that even the traces of the crowded roads that were once used have started to be erased!”
“Christians believe that God loves you sooo much... he created hell, just in case you don't love him back.”
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.”
“Televangelists preach a corrupted perversion of Christ's socialist teachings. Prosperity gospel is predatory capitalism masquerading as religion.”
“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.”
“A sacred cow, unexamined, feeds itself and produces a whole lot of bullshit. And nobody wants that, except the people who profit by selling you bullshit. Those are the people who try to tell you that examining or criticizing the sacred cow is taboo.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
“Religious books are medicines, which were developed to cure the society, once upon a time. But now they have been expired, expired medicines are poisons.”
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Faith is believing in that which I know ain't so."
"Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance."
"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mohandas Gandhi
"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
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@donreno5324 You can barely put a sentence together, chump. Hunter's irrelevant.
It’s OK sweetie, you’re currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial: Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger: Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining: Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. It’s not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression: Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance: Moving on... (well, maybe not)
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It’s OK sweetie, you’re currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial: Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger: Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining: Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. It’s not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression: Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance: Moving on... (well, maybe not)
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@btdu2789
It’s OK sweetie, you’re currently going through the 5 stages of grief and loss.
1. Denial: Avoidance, confusion, shock, and fear.
2. Anger: Frustration, irritation, anxiety. Currently Trump is stuck between this stage and stage 1 of grief.
3. Bargaining: Struggling to find meaning, reaching out to others. It’s not uncommon to look for ways to regain control, or to feel like you can affect the outcome of an event.
4. Depression: Feeling overwhelmed, helplessness, hostility, flight.
5. Acceptance: Moving on... (well, maybe not)
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Research shows Trump voters were more likely to perform poorly on a test of intellectual ability. During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed "I love the poorly educated!" Well, if "poorly educated" is a euphemism for "cognitively challenged," new research finds they loved him right back. It reports Trump voters, on average, performed more poorly than Hillary Clinton supporters on a standard test widely regarded as a good indicator of intellectual ability. "Intellectual factors played an important role in the 2016 election," writes a research team led by Yoav Ganzach of Tel Aviv University. "These results suggest that the 2016 U.S. presidential election had less to do with party affiliation, income, or education, and more to do with basic cognitive ability." In the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, Ganzach and his colleagues analyzed data from the American National Election Studies, which included 5,914 participants in 2012 and 4,271 in 2016. Besides expressing their attitudes toward that year's presidential candidates, participants took a standard test of verbal ability. Specifically, they were presented with 10 sets of words, and asked "to identify the word or phrase in a set of five that was the closest to the target word." While hardly comprehensive, the test "is considered a good indicator of general cognitive ability," the researchers note. After taking into account participants' party affiliation, the researchers found intellectual ability was a strong predictor of attitudes toward the two major candidates in 2016. Specifically, they found "clear negative relationships of verbal ability and education with attitude toward Trump." In contrast, they found "weak, nonsignificant relationships of verbal ability and education with attitude toward [Mitt] Romney" in his failed 2012 campaign. In both elections, higher levels of education and verbal ability were associated with support for the Democratic candidate [Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton]. "Support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income," the researchers add. "Our analyses indicate that support for Trump was less about socioeconomic standing, and more about intellect." Ganzach and his team note that Trump, on the campaign trail, expressed his opposition to both socially liberal beliefs (such as support for abortion rights and opposition to racism) and fiscally conservative beliefs (such as free trade). Both sets of beliefs have been linked in past research with higher cognitive ability, so it makes sense that their appeal would be largely limited to those who score lower on such measures. This research adds to the rapidly growing list of findings attempting to explain why the American voters (although not a majority) supported a candidate widely viewed as lacking the qualifications or temperament to be president. While economic anxiety has been largely ruled out as a likely explanation, studies have pointed to whites' fear of declining social status in a rapidly changing society, as well as racist and sexist beliefs, tribalism, possessing an authoritarian mindset, and even being prone to anxiety, and thus susceptible to Trump's fear-based appeals. Ganzach's findings align with those of another recent study that found Democrats who crossed over to vote for him were the least likely demographic to engage in analytical thinking. This may be because, in many cases, they just aren't good at it.
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“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
“People don't believe in God because it's true, but because they were the victims of early childhood indoctrination.”
“Televangelists preach a corrupted perversion of Christ's socialist teachings. Prosperity gospel is predatory capitalism masquerading as religion.”
“Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.”
“In order to create a hatred-free society, the upcoming generations must receive authentic knowledge about the evolution of gods. Schoolbooks must teach the origin of life, anthropology and a brief history of each major religion. Students must learn when, why and how humans invented gods and religions”
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”
“Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives the imagination more importance than the reality.”
“A sacred cow, unexamined, feeds itself and produces a whole lot of bullshit. And nobody wants that, except the people who profit by selling you bullshit. Those are the people who try to tell you that examining or criticizing the sacred cow is taboo.”
“The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.”
“Religious books are medicines, which were developed to cure the society, once upon a time. But now they have been expired, expired medicines are poisons.”
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Faith is believing in that which I know ain't so."
"Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance."
"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mohandas Gandhi
"Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time."
Eskimo:"If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
"Without religion, we'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter." Thomas Jefferson
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friederich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Friederich Nietzsche
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
"Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."
"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." - Voltaire
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven."
"God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. - Marquis De Sade
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
A country dominated by televangelism would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers, who envisioned religion as personal and spiritua, not social and political. No particular variety of religion was intended to control the political agenda, to set the community's moral tone or to judge who are the true believers and members of our society. But this is precisely the objective of the electric church.
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
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