“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
- Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
no. 822
It isn’t “sharing your faith” when you’re using legislation to do it. That’s “forcing your faith.”
Jesus never gave us the right to impose our religious beliefs on anyone.
When it violates human free will and matters of conscience, it isn’t about Jesus.
It’s about control.
Rev. Benjamin Cremer
Monday, August 19, 2024
no. 820
“We are all human.
We don't have *a point within* society.
We *are* society”…
“We ARE society. This means that the whole point of society is us. It exists to sustain us, and while we bear the responsibility to be ourselves within it, it is a thing made by humanity and for humanity. It isn't a big box store to buy for billions and then sell off for parts.”
A. R. Moxon “The Whole Purpose”
Saturday, August 17, 2024
no. 819
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
James Madison, Letter to Edward Livingston, 1822.
no. 818
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest- ridden people maintaining a free civil government, This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which thei civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
no. 817
"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814.
Friday, August 9, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 2024
no. 815
“Socialism is a scare word they've hurled at every advance the people have made. Socialism is what they called public power, social security, deposit insurance, and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for anything that helps all people.”
Harry Truman, 1952
Thursday, August 1, 2024
no. 813
“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
-Tommy Douglas, 1942
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