Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women. . . Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
The greatest threat to U. S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.
Everything I say is 95% truthful.