Okay. I just died.
(Source: lockjawcomic)
I still think our Albanian fraud and part-time nun beats your Tibetan after-dinner speaker and part time spiritual racketeer.
A friend of mine, during a debate between us about who was/is more overrated - Mother Teresa or the Dalai Lama
This has to be the greatest thing ever made
LESTRADE.
Will this be on the test?”
“About the test… The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged and productive citizen of the world and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football and while scrolling through your twitter feed. The test will judge: your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages; whether you’ll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric; whether you’ll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours. And everything, EVERYTHING will be on it. So pay attention.
(Source: hhummel)
I saw this Tweet, by @matthewbaldwin and I thought it needed an illustration.
Love it.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”
-Martin Luther King Jr
(Source: billydarley)
Wolf: What would you do if you were talking to Raul Castro?
Paul: I’d ask him why he was calling.
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Top RBS bankster’s compensation in visual context
RBS boss Stephen Hester has accepted his bonus of £963,000 on top of his annual salary of £1.2 million. RBS is 80% owned by the UK taxpayer. This image represents his annual income as 2.2 million pixels, comparing it in ‘income parade’ style with other taxpayer-employed workers.
Religion can be bad. Science can be bad.
The point here is…. both things, at their extreme can be very bad. Morality motivates humans, either in the context of science, or the context of religion, to do good or bad.What a dumb comparison. It was not science that motivated the Nazis to send V-2 rockets. It was a political ideology mixed with a personality cult directed at Hitler. In other words, the Nazis had more in common with religion than with science. Science is a process we used to discover what is true about the universe. How science is used is another matter. It is asinine to ascribe intention to science when it cant have any to begin with. Is like saying that calculus, trigonometry or fractions can be bad. It makes no sense.
With religion we can’t say the same thing. Religious beliefs informs peoples actions. When the 911 hijackers said “Allahu Akbhar” they said it for a reason.
Sam Harris said it best:
“People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such regimes are dogmatic to the core and generally give rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields were not examples of what happens when human beings reject religious dogma; they are examples of political, racial and nationalistic dogma run amok. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”
-FA
