"Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree."

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Source : Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.120, Prometheus Books

Victor J. Stenger

#Teaching Quotes #Use Quotes #Golden Quotes

“Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.”
“Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.”
“I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”
“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
“... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.”
“Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance.”

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