http://www.speedkill.org/2008/05/12/1979/ Radioactive Toy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.speedkill.org/2008/05/12/1979/#comment-467414 Fate Wed, 14 May 2008 20:07:41 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/2008/05/12/1979/#comment-467414 Is there a religion that isn't bat shit crazy when measured by an intelligent and unbiased observer? Those bumper stickers "Religion stops a thinking brain" really are true. In Billings a large number of my brothers friends were Mormons because the cross country team was 80% Mormon. They were all really nice guys. But often for the wrong reasons. "Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil" - Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land I've known people that simply refused to think or read anything against their religion or to even begin questioning it. You could almost see it physically.. like their brain was chugging along at full speed when suddenly a brick wall with "religion" was placed across the path and WHAM! Their brain is stopped as they try and find some crazed explanation that fits their religion when logic and reason would lead them on a path to hell. Is there a religion that isn’t bat shit crazy when measured by an intelligent and unbiased observer? Those bumper stickers “Religion stops a thinking brain” really are true. In Billings a large number of my brothers friends were Mormons because the cross country team was 80% Mormon. They were all really nice guys. But often for the wrong reasons. “Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil” - Heinlein’s Stranger In A Strange Land I’ve known people that simply refused to think or read anything against their religion or to even begin questioning it. You could almost see it physically.. like their brain was chugging along at full speed when suddenly a brick wall with “religion” was placed across the path and WHAM! Their brain is stopped as they try and find some crazed explanation that fits their religion when logic and reason would lead them on a path to hell.

]]> http://www.speedkill.org/2008/05/12/1979/#comment-467401 Heliologue Wed, 14 May 2008 13:30:29 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/2008/05/12/1979/#comment-467401 Yeah, but if I do that, the kids'll just end up dishonoring me and I'll have to do all that work beating and choking them to death, and I just don't have time for that kind of hassle. 'kin kids these days, right? Yeah, but if I do that, the kids’ll just end up dishonoring me and I’ll have to do all that work beating and choking them to death, and I just don’t have time for that kind of hassle. ‘kin kids these days, right?

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