“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.” WorldFirstsChildrenLittlesEndsBigsSpiritTurnsPoorChristianityBandShotsImportanceBlindShirtsTailsWearyArrangementsHaltParadesLameChristmas SpiritProcessionBig Shots Author:Bill Vaughan
“If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be extremely stupid. The white man must be profoundly troubled - probably torn by a huge guilt connected to how he treated the ancestors - to think that villagers would buy the idea that someone died on the cross for us. They would say these beliefs are evidence that the white people killed someone of great importance, probably a diviner and a healer. If you kill a healer, you must make amends by appeasing the healer's spirit.” PeopleThinkingMenSpiritBeliefChristianityStupidEvidenceImportanceGuiltAncestorTornHealer Author:Malidoma Patrice Some
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” IfsImportantFaithReligiousChristianityImportanceInfiniteCatholicChristian LivingChristian ChurchTrue And FalseTrue ChristianityBest Christian Author:C. S. Lewis
“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.” WorldMindMeanReligionBeliefSocialChristianityVirtueHabitIntegrityBenefitsIntellectualEvidenceImportanceLeavingOrganizedDogmaUnderestimatedUndecided Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959 Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.” KnowsMightTodayBeliefExistenceChristianityKnow HowDoubtAtheismProveWeightImportanceCleanHistoricalAtheistProofFormerThere Is No GodSuperfluousExistence Of GodRefutation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche