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@MelissaTweets The Greeks weren't primal at all. Neither were the Romans
@MelissaTweets Reality decides that. Talk to Aristotle about the rest.
@MelissaTweets Reality decides. A is A as someone once said
@MelissaTweets Because some ideas are rational and others are not
@MelissaTweets From the people. As in "We The People"
@MelissaTweets Diests mostly, and Diests wouldn't exactly be welcomed by the so-called Religious Right
@MelissaTweets My beef is with men who claim supernatural insight and purport to tell others how to live their lives.
@itsonlywords Since religion is an idea created by humanity I'm not sure your point is relevant
@MelissaTweets The state decoupled from religion gave us the Constitution. And Madison and Jefferson were Deists, at best.
@MelissaTweets All of which occurred after the West had decoupled religion from the state. There are those today who seek to recouple
@itsonlywords: @melissatweets Nonetheless, the potential remains. Just ask the people who want to ban "offensive" books, movies or TV shows
@itsonlywords @melissatweets There are no modern examples because, thankfully, we do not live in a society governed by religion
@MelissaTweets @itsonlywords The Inquisition, the treatment of Jews in Spain & England, the Crusades, Spanish Colonialism, Henry VIII
@MelissaTweets: @itsonlywords Western history shows pretty clearly that organized religion is as much a source of tyranny as the state
RT @DailyCurmudgeon: Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. VOLTAIRE
@MelissaTweets Also when they stop listening to the priest
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” Denis Diderot (via @chrisberez)
RT @NeowinFeed: Boy stabbed by drunken woman over Xbox 360 dispute http://www.neowin.net/news... | Its the Christmas spirit !
RT @DailyCurmudgeon: The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. VOLTAIRE
@brettbittner Yes I've heard this one before actually :) The problem this time wasn't wet snow just a LOT of it !
@dmataconis thanks. Maybe I will write about it at some point.
These are your future voters, America http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
RT @collegepolitico: If fox is supposed to be conservative why in the world do they constantly call for new regulations on everything?
@scottpigeon I am holding out for the Scotch Of The Month Club
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