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From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments:
Religion (noun):
An elastic quality of spirit that allows covetousness to be perceived as entitlement, slavery as economy, rutting as love, murder as glory.
Religion is the indenture of a deity whose job description mutates according to the present requirements of hate.http:// -
From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
"To be able to disagree is the essence of civilization. To yearn for complete agreement, utter unanimity in ideas and ideals, is the beginning of lockstep savagery."
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From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
Faith: noun.
The knowable
promoted to the irrefutable.
Consensus
unblemished by debate.
Doubt in exile.
The child's comfort.
The Terrorist's trigger.
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From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
People of religious distinction maintain that human beings exclusively possess souls, on the strength of which they may gain admittance to heaven ( Read more... ) -
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Deceit (noun): A dog rolls on the carcass of a dead possum in order to deceive other animals as to his identity as a dog. A man lolls in the scents of a church in order to deceive all around him as to his identity as a thief, an adulterer and a liar.
The difference is that the dog will not first have to endure being bored by the possum. pibgornFrom A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
What would you have: evil that does good, or good that does evil?
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I was out for a walk the other day with my wife, our poodle had slipped his collar and was deigning to be vaguely proximate to us, when I commented on a sign in ( Read more... )From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
People are quite at home with evil. It's fighting it that raises the dreadful spectre of inconvenience.
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Ambiguous ideals brayed incoherently by ignoramuses: these elements in perfect balance compose the rich effluent of American politics, the reassurance that the republic is functioning as designed ( Read more... )From A Demon's Nest of Sentiments
People of a political kidney never can, never will at any time acknowledge the slightest possibility that they might be mistaken. That way lies the imminent crumbling of dogma, and the freakish implication that those holding opposite views could be, after all, tolerable, decent, even respectable ( Read more... )