"Work is Love Made Visible" – Kahlil Gibran
Posted: May 23, 2011 Filed under: regular | Tags: love, mennonite, religion Leave a comment »From reddit user jugaar:
“I took this photo of Mennonites over the weekend while working on the tornado relief effort in Alabama. These ladies were hauling bricks in 90 degree weather, full sunlight, and 60% humidity with smiles on their faces.”
Beautiful!
Quote of the Day: Voltaire
Posted: December 4, 2010 Filed under: regular | Tags: atrocities, christianity, islam, quotes, religion, skepticism, voltaire Leave a comment »What is on my mind today? Violence against human beings that has been incited by religion (or abuse of religion).
“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.”
Alternative condensed translation:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
