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Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh
and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate
prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or
a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and
bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their
audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds,
designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.
- Hal Crowther -
A philosophical opinion about the
nature of the universe, which is held by the great majority of America's
top scientists and probably by the elite intelligentsia generally,
is so abhorrent to the American electorate
that no candidate for popular election dare confirm
it in public. If I am right, this means that high office in
the greatest country in the world is
barred to the very people best qualified to hold it, unless they are
prepared to lie about their beliefs. American political
opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent
and honest.
- Richard Dawkins -
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us
- universe - , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein -
We still inhabit the prehistory of our race, and have not caught
up with the immense discoveries about our own nature and the nature of the universe. The
unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism,
and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking have allowed us to guess at the origins of
the cosmos. But how much more addictive is the familiar old garbage about tribe and nation
and faith. - Christopher Hitchens -
Our collective survival lies in recognizing that religion is not the
solution; neither is nationalism. Both are divisive,
embedding in us false notions of superiority and arrogant pride
that are difficult to erase. We have but one choice: the path of secular
humanism, based upon the principles of logic and
reason. This alone offers the hope of providing everybody on
this globe with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
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