“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.” ChildrenFormReligionAtheismMajorsAbuseNotesVariousChild AbuseFalsehoodCompetingScandalSmall Child Book:Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness Source: Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness
“I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various cultures in which each originated. To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran.” WorldMeanChristianCultureJesusMajorsResponseEndureVariousRevelations Author:Marcus Borg
“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayShouldWritingMindMeanPersonsHas BeensCertainReadingSoundKnowingSeeingSubjectsMediaOffersMajorsVariousCommunicateRoutesLiteracyReally MeanReading And WritingFrame Of MindNew Media Author:Seymour Papert
“Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.” LongStuffBitsTermHonestMajorsPropertyInvestmentVariousSavingBeing HonestLong TermArrangementsVagueSavingsAccountants Author:Anne Robinson
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).” BelieveKindFactsReligiousNumbersFocusCenturyCommunicationPeriodsMajorsAspectDon't BelieveIncludingVariousSignificantRadicalParadoxThinker20th CenturyProposeIndirectSignificant NumbersNon Religious Author:George Pattison
“I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.” WayIdeasSeemsLiteratureLanguageAttentionPerspectiveMajorsDetailsVariousConnectingTheoreticalRespondingIlluminatingLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.” ImportantProblemQualityGroupsPoetMajorsIntentionVariousObjectivesJournalistAttributes Author:Ansel Adams
“Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.” MadeWarMovingSeriousTrumpRight NowMajorsConcernThreatVariousNuclearStatementsBordersTensionCommentMexicanReducingNuclear WarMexican Border Author:Noam Chomsky