The #Film #Heretic Reveals the Dark Side of #Religion vs #Secularism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUSXrGEVl14
You’re faced with a terrifying question: #belief or #disbelief? This video dives deep into the provocative #movie Heretic, exploring the existential choice between #religious belief and #nihilism. What happens when religion isn't true but still fulfills human needs for meaning, community, and purpose?
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“Huh! Priests!” said Mr. Shoe. “They’re all the same. Always telling you that you’re going to live again after you’re dead, but you just try it and see the look on their faces!”
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Reaper Man (1991)
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https://www.fogolf.com/922332/the-players-championship-ryan-fox-on-rory-mcilroys-win-looks-to-continue-form-from-top-20-finish/ The Players Championship: Ryan Fox on Rory McIlroy’s win; looks to continue form from top-20 finish #17th #American #championship #CONTINUE #disbelief #FINISH #Form #fox #from #Golf #GolfNews #golfer #hole #into #looks #mcilroy’s #on #Players #rory #ryan #sawgrass #Shot #Spaun #Splash #stood #The #to #top20 #WATCHED #water #win
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Men and women have been burned for thinking there is but one God; that there was none; that the Holy Ghost is younger than God; that God was somewhat older than his son; for insisting that good works will save a man without faith; that faith will do without good works; for declaring that a sweet babe will not be burned eternally, because its parents failed to have its head wet by a priest; for speaking of God as though he had a nose; for denying that Christ was his own father; for contending that three persons, rightly added together, make more than one; for believing in purgatory; for denying the reality of hell; for pretending that priests can forgive sins; for preaching that God is an essence; for denying that witches rode through the air on sticks; for doubting the total depravity of the human heart; for laughing at irresistible grace, predestination and particular redemption; for denying that good bread could be made of the body of a dead man; for pretending that the pope was not managing this world for God, and in the place of God; for disputing the efficacy of a vicarious atonement; for thinking the Virgin Mary was born like other people; for thinking that a man’s rib was hardly sufficient to make a good-sized woman; for denying that God used his finger for a pen; for asserting that prayers are not answered, that diseases are not sent to punish unbelief; for denying the authority of the Bible; for having a Bible in their possession; for attending mass, and for refusing to attend; for wearing a surplice; for carrying a cross, and for refusing; for being a Catholic, and for being a Protestant; for being an Episcopalian, a Presbyterian, a Baptist, and for being a Quaker. In short, every virtue has been a crime, and every crime a virtue. The church has burned honesty and rewarded hypocrisy. And all this, because it was commanded by a book.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes second to achievement.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…
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A quotation from Addison, Joseph:
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When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/addison-joseph/6525/
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I can suspend my disbelief that good cops are possible ta' enjoy a comic, an' still criticize 'em fer bein' cops. That's what we're all doin' when we talk about comics anyway.
(Art sampled from "Detective Comics" Vol. 1 #1075 by Ram V, Francesco Francavilla, Ariana Maher, Jessica Berbey, Ben Meares, and Ben Abernathy. Edits: Altered and additional dialogue, added caption.)
Listen to Steve Shives!
Our incredulity won't protect us.
#logicalfallacies
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#TimBallard’s #Claims to #Fight #SexTrafficking Made Him a #MAGA #Star. These #Women Told #Police He #Abused Them.
#Women who worked with #TheSoundofFreedom #hero and #Trump #ally, say he #preyed on them. They have been watching in #disbelief as his #star kept #shining
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https://www.wired.com/story/tim-ballard-sex-trafficking-maga-star-women-police-abuse/
Es geht wieder los.... Donnerstag kurz vor 20 Uhr...ist es wieder Zeit für die @STARFMHeavyHour ..das wöchentliche #Stahlwerk ist zurück.. Jetzt gibt's wieder ausgewählte #Krachmusik ..heute sind unter anderem #Deicide #Disbelief und die #Architects am Start..#RandomReminder
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What Was The Best Release Of April 2024?
April 2024 was loaded with a lot of excellent releases!
https://metalinjection.net/news/poll/what-was-the-best-release-of-april-2024
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Wait, wait, does this mean that #Israel has been #lying about #UNWRA all along? I'm fucking #shocked. Staggered in #disbelief.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-unrwa-review-1.7181135?cmp=rss
Persistent questioning of knowledge takes a toll: New study supports theories that baseless discrediting harms
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-persistent-knowledge-toll-theories-baseless.html #skepticism #biases #discreditation #disbelief #EpistemicInjustice
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