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1 year ago :: Jan 20, 2012 - 11:19PM #11
mountain_man Posts: 34,161	Jan 20, 2012 -- 5:36PM, Tpaine wrote: ...Since when are tax breaks to a privately owned amusement park featuring a 500 foot by 75 foot replica of Noah's Ark more important than the education of the state's children? Obviously followers are more important than thinkers. Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains. I am a Humanist. I believe in a rational philosophy of life, informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by a desire to do good for its own sake and not by an expectation of a reward or fear of punishment in an afterlife.
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 10:49AM #12
Tpaine Posts: 8,202	Jan 20, 2012 -- 11:19PM, mountain_man wrote: Jan 20, 2012 -- 5:36PM, Tpaine wrote: ...Since when are tax breaks to a privately owned amusement park featuring a 500 foot by 75 foot replica of Noah's Ark more important than the education of the state's children? Obviously followers are more important than thinkers. Non-thinkers make better followers. "When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 2:31PM #13
Ebon Posts: 7,685	I will never get over the tendancy of a certain kind of Christian to buy anything or anyone that's ostentatiously Christian enough. He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. ~ Proverbs 14:31 Fiat justitia, ruat caelum
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 3:34PM #14
mainecaptain Posts: 20,494	Jan 21, 2012 -- 10:49AM, Tpaine wrote: Jan 20, 2012 -- 11:19PM, mountain_man wrote: Jan 20, 2012 -- 5:36PM, Tpaine wrote: ...Since when are tax breaks to a privately owned amusement park featuring a 500 foot by 75 foot replica of Noah's Ark more important than the education of the state's children? Obviously followers are more important than thinkers. Non-thinkers make better followers. Yes they do, which is why that type work hard at destroying our education system. They want,....demand..blind followers. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato.. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives" Jackie Robinson
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 4:29PM #15
Ironhold Posts: 9,620	Jan 21, 2012 -- 2:31PM, Ebon wrote: I will never get over the tendancy of a certain kind of Christian to buy anything or anyone that's ostentatiously Christian enough. At least we Mormons try to aspire for a better class of kitsch...
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 4:33PM #16
MMarcoe Posts: 11,441	Jan 20, 2012 -- 6:02PM, mytmouse57 wrote: Because the Ark replica IS education for the state's children. Yes, it will teach them how stupid and preposterous and unsupportable creationism really is. There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. God is just a personification of reality, of pure objectivity.
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1 year ago :: Jan 21, 2012 - 4:39PM #17
farragut Posts: 2,872	For the benefit of any of you who yet may have the privilege of raising one or more youngsters,I acquired a copy of "Raising Freethinkers" for guidance in educating the six-year-old that lives with me. It's wonderful how fast she can pick things up, well, except for the stuff that she strews around the house.
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1 year ago :: Jan 29, 2012 - 1:58AM #18
rangerken Posts: 13,714	This thread was moved from the Hot Topics Zone Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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