December 2011
35 posts
“Religious faith has been the consistent enemy of human progress and equality....”
– Adam Lee, “Bringing Light Into Dark Places”, Daylight Atheism blog on BigThink, 5 October 2011 (via antallan)
“…I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
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“There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single...”
– Penn Jillette (via theyearwas)
josephine:
“It’s time for candidates and politicians to stop the God talk and start acting like true representatives of the people—all of the people. It’s time for the 45 million Nones to demand both respect and representation no less than any other American, and for presidential candidates, when asked about their religion, to reply something along these lines: ‘I understand why you are curious...
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“We’ll have real equality and real opportunity when we learn to set aside...”
– Adam Lee, “How We All Pay For the Huge Tax Privileges Granted to Religion — It’s Time to Tax the Church”, 14 December 2011 (via antallan)
“Some kind of dialog is now going on between individual human beings and the sum...”
– Terence McKenna (via poortaste)
I wonder where religion falls into here. HHmmmm
(via thereisnogod)
Who controls what we see, hear, and read?
blissandzen:
“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)
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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via coketalk)
"The founders of major Web companies, including... →
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Also, Voyager 1 is traveling at about 39,600 MPH,... →
Don't Spy on Me →
Researcher Trevor Eckhart just discovered a hidden application that records everything millions of people write, view and search for on their mobile phones. It sends all of that data to a company no one’s ever heard of. And we have no idea what that company is doing with our information.
Sen. Al Franken demanded answers from the company, Carrier IQ, calling its technology “deeply troubling.” We...
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