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“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms, They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened, Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that’s the way.”
Bruce Willis, July 1998 issue of George magazine.
What a surprise to discover that the knucklehead could say something like this!
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
I could not find this quote from Dawkins on martians, but did find this from him which mentioned them. Where did you find your quote.
“A Martian taxonomist who didn't know that all human races happily interbreed with one another, and didn't know that most of the underlying genetic variance in our species is shared by all races might be tempted by our regional differences in skin colour, facial features, hair, body size and proportions to split us into more than one species.” Richard Dawkins
"My only wish is... to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own admission, are "half animal, half angel" into persons, into whole persons."
-- Ludwig Feuerbach, "Lectures on the Essence of Religion"
I paraphrased a bit...but he basically makes the statement that we were put here by aliens.
Paraphrased, I thought so. I think manipulated the interview to meet you needs might fit better. It might help if you go read some of his works to get a real view of his views, and how he thinks. This Paraphrasing seems to be a common trait through religious history.
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
-- Francisco Ferrer, from The Encyclopedia of Unbelief
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell
Paraphrased, I thought so. I think manipulated the interview to meet you needs might fit better. It might help if you go read some of his works to get a real view of his views, and how he thinks. This Paraphrasing seems to be a common trait through religious history.
watch the video. yes..he got played like a violin...but he did admit that he'd rather believe that an alien race (obviously highly evolved of course) "seeded" life on earth than to believe in a God.
He never answered the question of where that alien race came from, of course.
Based on the way this clown got worked by Stein, does anyone really think that Ray Comfort wouldn't do the same to him?
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window".
Stephen King
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window".
Stephen King
I've never considered Stephen King to be a bastion of intellectual thought. Sorry.
He's a good writer...but just not a great theologian, or philosopher.
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