The conviction that taxation is intrinsically evil has achieved a sadomasochistic fervor in conservative circles—producing the Tea Party, their Republican zombies, and increasingly terrifying failures of governance[…] Conservatives view taxation as a species of theft—and to raise taxes, on anyone for any reason, is simply to steal more.
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Godless people are not required to respect superstition, prophets or religious acts performed or directed at them. If you say “I’ll pray for you” to me, I may laugh in your face… Don’t expect me to bow my head during a prayer, public or private. It’s your fallacy, not mine.
Teeth have tiny clocks inside! You have a birth certificate in your mouth.
No wonder he can prate about disbelieving evolution: he’s got negligible biology in his education, and he barely passed what little he took.
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The United States is primarily a nation of delusional dunces, crackpots and cranks—willfully ignorant idiots and proud of it. Is the Republic of Jesus (aka The United States of America) really the dumbest country on the planet?
Adolph Hitler, Politician, Soldier, Artist, Writer
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
One of the few things that major religions like Christianity and Islam have going for them is the emphasis on charity and helping the poor. Facts on the ground, however, indicate that increased religiosity — i.e., increased rates of Christian and Muslim belief — correlate with worse living conditions for the poor. Increased atheism and less religion, in contrast, correlate with better living conditions — and those conditions are “better” both because there are fewer people who are poor and because those with less income are better able to make their own decisions about how to lead their lives.
Yet more empirical evidence that private/religious schools perform no better than public schools. Private school vouchers are little more than another private sector scheme to transfer public funds into private coffers. [MSH]
[S]tudents in Milwaukee using vouchers to attend private and religious schools perform no better on standardized tests than their counterparts in public schools.
Always Question Authority 