Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
Please clean up after your dogma.
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?
Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads.
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.