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"The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord!...

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Really though....censoring on private messages?! lame lame LAME.

I've said this tons and tons of times, but now understand it is all within the person to see that there is truly nothing to be insecure about. Most of us still live in our own little pasts because we haven't matured enough to fully grasp that the decisions that were made for us as kids, still linger with us today as adults. There hasn't been a system in place for people to RATIONALLY MAKE DECISIONS. So we grow up from our younger years holding onto dogmatic practices, picking and choosing what's good and bad without any real moral concreteness beind the decision made, and go on living in complete ignorance. I now ask you, what are a few things that you know of that claim to KNOW the way to live? First and foremost in my opinion is, religion. The second, is the government. They play off of each other. Another question...Are you going to let your mom tell you how to live your life? Your dad? Your teachers? Your boss? Then why in the hell would you let religion and...

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..."to surrender one's consciousness by an inch, is to surrender one's consciousness in total. Either reason is an absolute to a mind or it is not -- and if it is not, there is no place to draw the line, no principle by which to draw it, no barrier faith cannot cross, no part of one's life faith cannot invade: one remains rational until and unless one's feelings decree otherwise." - Ayn Rand

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