Blog Post: “Traditional Family Values”

The bedrock of North American morality including hatred of the unorthodox, anti-intellectualism, homophobia, divorce, sexual repression and guilt, fear of the unknown, absence of critical thought, blind faith over facts, unthinking acceptance of the tyranny of the majority, subjugation of women, gullibility, obsequious sycophant-like respect for “charismatic leaders”, profit before people, the right to make a buck at the expense of the environment, unflinching intolerance for anyone who deviates one iota from the narrow Judaeo-Christian sense of moral outrage, the desire to inflict pain on the “immoral” and a respect for power regardless of its source or legitimacy.

This definition and many more may be found at the
Curmudgeon’s Lexicon of Religion

Quote: Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist and Astrophysics

I do admit that I’m regretful that there is no such thing as an afterlife. It is not compatible with the laws of physics as we understand them. There’s no evidence that we have for it, and we should always be skeptical when we want to believe something is true. I think that we want there to be an afterlife. That’s not an argument in favor of it. That’s a reason to be doubtful.

Quote: Karl Marx

Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx, Philosopher, Sociologist, Economic Historian, Journalist, and Revolutionary Socialist