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Oral Arguments Presented in Massachusetts Case Challenging "Under God" in Pledge of All... - 0 views

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Humanism

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  • constitutional equal protection
  • “The daily recitation in public schools of a pledge declaring that the nation is ‘under God’ is discriminatory toward atheists and humanists,”
  • “No child should go to school each day to have the class declare that her religious beliefs are wrong in an exercise that portrays her and her family as less patriotic than believers.”
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  • The federal government added “under God” to its wording of the Pledge in 1954
  • before that the Pledge simply declared that the nation was “one nation indivisible.”
  • The original version of the Pledge, written in 1892, is completely secular and inclusive of all Americans.
  • Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity.
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Article: Angry Child - No Greater Joy Ministries - 0 views

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Religion

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  • A proper spanking leaves children without breath to complain.
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Christian | Define Christian at Dictionary.com - 0 views

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  • of, pertaining to, believing in, or belonging to the religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ
  • a person who believes in Jesus Christ
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Definition of Christian in Oxford Dictionaries (US English) (US) - 0 views

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  • professing Christianity
  • a believer in Jesus Christ and his teachings
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Christian - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary - 0 views

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  • one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ
  • professing Christianity
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Why blame God for Godlessness? by *Verixas92 on deviantART - 0 views

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Reason(s) and Belief Dislike

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  • why try to blame God when evil occurs?
  • If God didn't help because people "reject" him, then how come terrible things happen to people who don't?
  • I didn't know that God was so petty.
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  • if I'm to believe that God has a plan for all of us, as I've been told several times in the past, especially in times of strife, then technically it's still God. [If God exists]
  • Instead of punishing, a loving god might have chosen to... reveal himself a little more?
  • Or maybe he might have made it so that evil didn't exist in the first place?
  • If God was all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful, surely he could have found a way to prevent that tragedy, if only to avoid the suffering
  • if such an 'imperfect' being as a human can think of some way to avoid those things from happening, surely God would be able to find a much better way.
  • Instead, we're left with this petty creature that supposedly cares so much about us that he's willing to let slide the brutal murders of dozens of children, just to teach us a lesson about faith.
  • Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved
  • It kinda makes God sound like a petulant child.
  • I'm fine with God not helping, considering he's sort of... not there. Or at the very least, malevolent enough to stand by even while people feverishly pray and go unanswered, who lets horrible things happen and does nothing. If he's really so petty to abandon suffering people because people won't worship him, then I would rather not have him here.
  • We aren't trying to stomp out Christianity, we're asking for evidence. Until we get that, there is no reason to believe in your claim.
  • widespread delusion is pretty hard to get going with people already past the age of reason
  • So we have an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent god willing to kill people to get them to listen, but he can't just reveal himself to prove his own existence? What does that say about him?
  • faith [belief without evidence, not without seeing] is not a virtue
  • Trust and other such things can be considered such things; piety is trust in something that may or may not exist.
  • There is an enormous difference between a video game and real life: you can leave a video game. You can choose not to play a video game.
  • Does God go against our free will by forcing us into a world like this?
  • Morality doesn't originate from any one religion, no more than it comes from a belief in benevolent fairies.
  • I have yet to hear an moral action or deed that a believer can commit that cannot be matched or even surpassed by a non-believer.
  • There isn't much of a difference between starving someone to death and letting someone starve to death. Either way, you must take responsibility for your action, and you end up with the same result.
  • If God has power over the death of people, he is accountable for that-no all-loving deity would allow them to die.
Sunny Jackson

About Humanism - 0 views

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Humanism

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  • a progressive philosophy of life
  • affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment
  • aspire to the greater good of humanity
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POETRY | The Humanist - 0 views

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Humanism

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  • Make no mistake: he is dead. He does not sleep.
  • There is no whisper in his brain. There is nothing in his chemistry that can say, “I am cold.” No part of him is alive now, either here or in a place of angels. He will decay.
  • Traffic is passing on the road, a blackbird sings, a frog leaps somewhere, tourists are visiting the Taj Mahal, but the world has ended.
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  • The world has ended. The cosmos has collapsed into a singularity.
  • then we would know for sure
  • if we could send a party of detached observers on a preview tour (sales pitch and brochures will not do)
  • if then His Excellency would put a human soul on public view, explain and demonstrate the method of its separation from the corpse, and its means of transportation to eternity
  • If God would send his Minister of State, to give us the co-ordinates of heaven
  • there would be recompense
  • Then making garbage of young men would not be a kinder act
  • there would be recompense
  • The years they never knew, the loves they never gave, would matter less.
  • until God’s envoy makes his case, and answers all our questions, do not kill. Work against death. Watch over life. Assume there is no other.
  • I know geraniums: quick reddening into urgent flares, continuous dying day by day.
  • James Graham
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humanism: Definition from Answers.com - 0 views

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Humanism

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  • rejects religious beliefs
  • centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth
  • Concern with the interests, needs, and welfare of humans
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  • concern for human interests, values, and dignity is of the utmost importance
  • philosophy
  • belief
  • an individualistic and critical spirit
  • a shift of emphasis from religious to secular concerns
  • any philosophy concerned to emphasize human welfare and dignity
  • either optimistic about the powers of human reason, or at least insistent that we have no alternative but to use it as best we can
  • a rediscovery of the unity of human beings and nature
  • a renewed celebration of the pleasures of life
  • philosophy or ethical system that centres on the concept of the dignity, freedom, and value of human beings
Sunny Jackson

Craziest Ann Coulter Quotes - Crazy Ann Coulter Quote Generator - 0 views

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Quotes Dislike

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  • ''I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.'' —Ann Coulter, on ''Politically Incorrect,'' February 26, 2001
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