HSOUIXZ

SHALOM
These are a few things that have been on my mind:

Suppose there is a God who is watching us and choosing which souls of the deceased to bring to heaven, and this god really does want only the morally good to populate heaven. He will probably select from only those who made a significant and responsible effort to discover the truth. For all others are untrustworthy, being cognitively or morally inferior, or both. They will also be less likely ever to discover and commit to true beliefs about right and wrong. That is, if they have a significant and trustworthy concern for doing right and avoiding wrong, it follows necessarily that they must have a significant and trustworthy concern for knowing right and wrong. Since this knowledge requires knowledge about many fundamental facts of the universe (such as whether there is a god), it follows necessarily that such people must have a significant and trustworthy concern for always seeking out, testing, and confirming that their beliefs about such things are probably correct. Therefore, only such people can be sufficiently moral and trustworthy to deserve a place in heaven — unless god wishes to fill heaven with the morally lazy, irresponsible, or untrustworthy.
Richard Carrier on Pascal's wager

The anti-Pascal wager
Richard Dawkins argues for an "anti-Pascal wager" in his book, The God Delusion. "Suppose we grant that there is indeed some small chance that God exists. Nevertheless, it could be said that you will lead a better, fuller life if you bet on his not existing, than if you bet on his existing and therefore squander your precious time on worshipping him, sacrificing to him, fighting and dying for him, etc." .
The wager assumes that one can consciously decide. Critics argue that they cannot do this, and therefore Pascal's Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. In addition, an omniscient God would presumably see through the deception. Richard Dawkins writes "Would you bet on God's valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest scepticism?"

Terry Pratchett satirized Pascal's Wager in The Hogfather. A philosopher claimed, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When the philosopher died, "he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, 'We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...'"

SOJOURNER TRUTH: At a Women's Rights speech on June 21, 1851
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a Woman!
"Where did your Christ come from?"
"Where did your Christ come from?"

"From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
"Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say."
SOJOURNER TRUTH

THOMAS PAINE: The Age of Reason
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
THOMAS PAINE

As for myself, I take this stance: I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it.

So as you go through life keep this in mind. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

Those who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrows know how to swim

POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC

.If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

If Barbie is so popular; why do we have to buy her friends?

And as always; when the choice is between two bowls of shit; the only difference is the smell. The Republican GOP would do well to remember that in the next 2012 Presidential election.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS WON THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS!

AMERICA DECIDED, it happened whether you can accept that or not. Some of you are afraid, confused and disappointed. It will be a Democratically controlled Senate and House with a Democratic BLACK PRESIDENT.

You have witnessed a living history. 

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
God bless OBAMA/BIDEN and God bless these United States of America!

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