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| | #2951 | | The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics,
culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation
of events. Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two
millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there
are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more
nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined.
-- John K. Naland, "The First Easter", Free Inquiry magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2
| | | #2952 | | I find you lack of faith in the forth dithturbing.
- Darse ("Darth") Vader
| | | #2953 | | "All Bibles are man-made."
-- Thomas Edison
| | | #2954 | | "Spock, did you see the looks on their faces?"
"Yes, Captain, a sort of vacant contentment."
| | | #2955 | | "The triumph of libertarian anarchy is nearly (in historical terms) at
hand... *if* we can keep the Left from selling us into slavery and the
Right from blowing us up for, say, the next twenty years."
-- Eric Rayman, usenet guy, about nanotechnology
| | | #2956 | | "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein
| | | #2957 | | "I think Michael is like litmus paper - he's always trying to learn."
-- Elizabeth Taylor, absurd non-sequitir about Michael Jackson
| | | #2958 | | While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possession,
conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge,
we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies
that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense
of cosmic unity. When accounts of sudden religious conversions in TLEs
[temporal-lobe epileptics] are laid alongside the epiphanous revelations of
the religious tradition, the parallels are striking. The same is true of the
recent spate of alleged UFO abductees. Parsimony alone argues against invoking
spirits, demons, or extraterrestrials when natural causes will suffice.
-- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Neuropathology and the Legacy of Spiritual
Possession", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 3, pg. 255
| | | #2959 | | "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on."
- Samuel Goldwyn
| | | #2960 | | "We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievement."
-- Richard J. Daley
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