"Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries."

-- Darrel Ray

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“I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.”
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Source : "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”
“Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church.... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For "how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?”
“Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.”
“I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.”
“That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.”
“I actually I don't feel a lot of hate on Twitter very often.”

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