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George Eliot

  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    "Well, it isn't my fault; I don't do anything to him."
  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided,
  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had forever closed behind them.
  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    thinking more of her boy even than of her husband;
  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    And I shall want to keep my mother and sister."
  • Elannah Matosцитирует2 года назад
    if life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijaцитирует2 года назад
    name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer. As yet, I have had no takers. (Whereas, oddly enough, if you ask an audience to name a wicked statement or action directly attributable to religious faith, nobody has any difficulty in finding an example.)
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijaцитирует2 года назад
    Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea! As well as taking the axe to the root of everything that we have learned about evolutionary biology (societies that tolerate murder and theft and perjury will not last long, and those that violate the taboos on incest and cannibalism do in fact simply die out), it constitutes a radical attack on the very concept of human self-respect. It does so by suggesting that one could not do a right action or avoid a wrong one, except for the hope of a divine reward or the fear of divine retribution. Many of us, even the less unselfish, might hope to do better than that on our own.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijaцитирует2 года назад
    Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijaцитирует2 года назад
    But there is a reason why religions insist so much on strange events in the sky, as well as on less quantifiable phenomena such as dreams and visions. All of these things cater to our inborn stupidity, and our willingness to be persuaded against all the evidence that we are indeed the center of the universe and that everything is arranged with us in mind.
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