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There is no god, or anything else that would qualify as supernatural.
Don't buy the lie. Faith is an excuse for not thinking. Belief in god is intellectual suicide.
Be brave, be strong, face the truth: we are animals here on this planet, mammals that live and die like any other mammal.
There is wonder and mystery and beauty in this world; don't waste this one life believing in some silly, superstitious, non-sense.
The atheist needs to prove nothing. The atheist accepts the natural world as it appears. It is the believer that must prove there is some invisible force, the proverbial old man in a white robe, pushing all the buttons in some magic control room in the sky that no one can see.
In short, the burden of proof is on the believer.
Belief in god is dangerous; belief in god leads to war, death, pain and miserey; belief in god is a tool of oppression.
Be a zealot for the truth. It is a crime that people teach children that there is a god, a heaven and a hell. To force a child to accept such non-sense is an insult to the intelligence and should be treated as child abuse.
Everytime the atheist makes people more aware of the possibility of atheism it is a victory. Anytime the atheist can plant a seed of doubt it is a victory.
The fact that a majority may believe in the supernatural is not an argument for the supernatural. At one time the majority thought blacks inferior, thought the sun revolved around the earth, and even that the earth was flat. The majority has a horrible track record.
The truth: there is no god; jesus is some dead dude, not divine but no doubt charming, and just another bag of rotting flesh.
I encourage all believers to give up the shackles of faith, the bondage of belief, the cursed darkness of religion, and be born again into the sweetness of reason and light.
Be a hero. Be an atheist!
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Will you be a hero? Will you be an atheist?There is no god, or anything else that would qualify as supernatural.
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Sports stars don't seem to get it nowadays.
If the folks in Ohio pay his salary (they do by attending the games!), then he should show some respect for them. I don't care who he roots for - just don't rub your "employers" nose in it!
Go sit in a skybox and root for the 'enemy' from there - is he so lacking in respect/wisdom that he doesn't know he's going to rile the hometown crowd? Or does he just not care?
It does seem odd that he's a local from Akron and does this - he grew up in football country near the NFL Hall of Fame - he should know how the locals cherish their Browns. If he'd made this mistake at a Browns/Steelers, he'd probably have been put in stocks and pilloried!
As Phillip Morris wrote in his column on Monday :
"I understand that James is not your average local celebrity. He is a citizen of the world. He is the biggest global icon to call Cleveland home since Rockefeller paraded around town.
Nike recently dedicated a museum in James' honor in Shanghai. A movie about his early basketball life headlined over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival.
His star eclipsed Cleveland's the moment he walked out of Akron's Saint Vincent-Saint Mary High School.
Still, you have to wonder why James, who recently built a palace outside of Akron, demonstrates no love for the teams that continue to hold an iron grip on the region's collective psyche?
More importantly, why does he insist on making it clear that we have very different tastes? It's not easy being in love with a guy who doesn't like any of your friends.
It makes you wonder whether he really likes you.
I suppose it could be worse: He could be a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. But that sort of nonsense would make his life difficult in Cleveland.
I guess we have no choice but to count our blessings and simply celebrate our Yankee-loving-Cowboy-hugging-global icon until he divorces us and takes his game somewhere else."
Sports stars don't seem to get it nowadays.
If the folks in Ohio pay his... more
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Olympics boss Jacques Rogge has told Usain Bolt to show more respect for opponents after the Jamaican claimed the first sprint double for 24 years.
Bolt showboated at the start and finish of his world-record breaking 200m race and slowed up yards from the line in the 100m final so he could celebrate.
Olympics boss Jacques Rogge has told Usain Bolt to show more respect for opponents... more
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With the Democratic National Convention only three months away, Senator Barack Obama has asked a tight circle of advisers to begin conducting a confidential search for prospective running mates.
Mr. Obama, who intends to wait until the final primaries end on June 3 before declaring victory in the presidential nominating fight with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has sworn his advisers to secrecy. The search is in its earliest phases, officials said, and Mr. Obama has asked Jim Johnson, a longtime Democratic hand, to lead the process.
Mr. Johnson, who is a vice chairman of the Obama campaign, led the vice presidential search for Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, in 2004 and Walter Mondale in 1984. In recent weeks, officials said, he started to compile information – largely biographical – for a long list of potential running mates.
Democratic officials discussed Mr. Johnson’s role on condition of anonymity because Mr. Obama has demanded that the process be kept secret, and they did not want him to know they were talking about it. Advisers to Mr. Obama declined to discuss the search or any elements of the process.
[Credit: Jeff Zeleny, New York Times; Photo by Yuri Gripas, Reuters] With the Democratic National Convention only three months away, Senator Barack Obama... more
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GARY, Ind. — The standard Barack Obama venue lately has been high schools. Truman High School, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Jefferson High School.
The Democratic presidential candidate has been pitching an audience-pleasing message of economic populism to crowds of a few thousand packed into each gymnasium. But he gets some of his loudest applause when he segues to education _ and a bit of a lecture to mothers and fathers on how to be parents.
Sure, there is the usual critique of current government policies. But the cheering peaks with a dose of tough talk.
"Parents if you don't parent, we can't improve our schools," he said. "You've got to parent. You've got to turn off the television set in your house once in a while, you've got to put the video game away once in a while."
The crowd reacted raucously and Obama laughed. "You know what I say is true, though. Don't blame the teachers, and the government and the schools if you're not doing your job."game away once in a while.". . .GARY, Ind. — The standard Barack Obama venue lately has been high schools.... more
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But I still like "Don't Stand So Close To Me". I was thrilled when in high school we started reading Lolita and I realized that it was "that book by Nabakov" that he sang about.But I still like "Don't Stand So Close To Me". I was thrilled when in... more
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