It's not the Bible that scares liberals, more the people who read it and believe in it. A bit like the Koran, really: interesting book, shame about the folk that take it too seriously.
But aside from my stupid ranting literalism: 'Taxorcism' - brilliant.
Y'know, I get the feeling that the human capacity for self-delusion is our most important defining characteristic: it will certainly be the one that wipes us out.
Completely agreed. Taken from my favorite "retro" strategy game of all time, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:
"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." --Academician Prokhor Zakharov
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A bit like the Koran, really: interesting book, shame about the folk that take it too seriously.
But aside from my stupid ranting literalism: 'Taxorcism' - brilliant.
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"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist."
--Academician Prokhor Zakharov
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