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!0 reasons to avoid religion; dealing with (work-related) performance anxiety; biopiracy …
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“Religion is spiritual immaturity. That’s a compliment. It’s entirely possible to enjoy your life without spending so much of it bent over in submission. Pull your head out of your rear, and look around with your own two eyes.” Amen.
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Bizarrely serendipitous.
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“Automatically I put it in my pocket,” he says, pulling out the nut and dropping it to the ground. “If I forget and go back to Manaus” — the capital of the state of Amazonas — “they can throw me in jail.”
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May 29th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
“Religion is spiritual immaturity. That’s a compliment. It’s entirely possible to enjoy your life without spending so much of it bent over in submission. Pull your head out of your rear, and look around with your own two eyes.” Amen.
Try not to argue about “religion” by describing only one kind of religion?
Jews have been arguing with God for a couple of thousand years or more. Quakers have been searching for ways to make the world a better place for a good three hundred years. There are plenty of activist religions around which are neither submissive nor complacent.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
To be fair, he does state at the top of the piece that he’s pitching at mainstream Christianity … though me pulling that quote out in isolation doesn’t make it very apparent, I’ll grant you.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:19 am
I’ll give you mainstream Christianity.
Remind me to tell you about my one and only experience at a Communion service.