“My respect for the Abrahamic religions went up in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th. The last vestige of respect for the taboo disappeared as I watched the Day of Prayer in Washington Cathedral, where people of mutually incompatible faiths united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place: religion. It is time for people of intellect, as opposed to people of faith, to stand up and say Enough! Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.” - Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, author, and freethought champion See more at: ffrf.org/news/day/#sthash.twwVybkr.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:06:32 +0000