Citaat van: Señor Canardo Echo op 12/06/2010 om 22:44:19Natuurlijk heb ik op dit vlak gelijk kerel.
Of misschien heb je toch wel gelijk, wat betreft die bible belters ....>
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Russell)
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
Mark Twain
Christenen zijn waarschijnlijk de allerergste dwingelanden in de geschiedenis van dit stukje aarde, maar voor je denkt dat er dus andere wel beter zullen zijn, ff nog een keer Mark Twain:
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also