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Amplifier"Evolution is every bit as much of a religion as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or any other. A claim of fact without any evidence." - youtube/matt61387"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it." - Bertrand Russell"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" - Epicurus "Intelligent Design is the unsupported assertion that:Some time ago... somewhere... somehow...something... did something." - DesertphileA sluggard community which never asks questions or inspects the world around it with a bright eye, and which never tried out different ways of understanding its circumstances, is sure first to stagnate, and then to slip backwards.Professor A. C. Grayling Following taken from: The end of Faith - Sam Harris.But the truly sinister complicity of the church came in its willingness to open its genealogical records to the Nazis and thereby enable them to trace the extent of a persons Jewish ancestry. A historian of the Catholic Church, Guenther Lewy, has written:The very question of whether the [Catholic] Church should lend its help to the Nazi state in sorting out people of Jewish decent was never debated. On the contrary. "We have always unselfishly worked for the people without regard to gratitude or ingratitude," a priest wrote in Klerusblatt in September 1934. "We shall also do our best to help in this service to the people." And the co-operation of the Church in this matter continued right through the war years, when the price of being Jewish was no longer dismissal from a government job and loss of livelihood, but deportation and outright physical destruction.All of this, despite the fact that the Catholic Church was in very real opposition to much of the Nazi platform, which was bent on curtailing its power. Goldhagen also reminds us that not a single German Catholic was excommunicated before, during, or after the war, "after committing crimes as great as any in human history."This is really an extraordinary fact. Throughout this period, the church continued to excommunicate theologians and scholars in droves for holding unorthodox views and to proscribe books by the hundreds, and yet not a single perpetrator of genocide - of whom there were countless examples - succeeded in furrowing Pope Pius XII's censorious brow.Not a single leader of the Third Reich - not even Hitler himself - was ever excommunicated, Galileo was not absolved of heresy until 1992."Here's a painful in your face analogy. Who made the right right? And made the liberal the left? Media made these terms, but God speaks! Right=Righteous Left=left behind...think about it!" - youtube/Truthsayer57 Report profile image violation

"Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It serves to detach the species from the natural world and likewise each other. It supports blind submission to authority. It reduces human responsibility to the effect that God controls everything and in turn awful crimes can be justified in the name of "divine pursuit". And most importantly it empowers those who know the truth but use the "myth" to manipulate and control societies. The religious myth is the most powerful device ever created and serves as the psychological soil upon which other myths can flourish.""Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."

Oliver Cromwell's Speech on the Dissolution of the Long ParliamentGiven to the House of Commons20 April 1653It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by yourcontempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, andenemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sellyour country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye haveno more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your consciencefor bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a denof thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to thewhole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone!So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!