August 2009

I recently heard a new term I hadn’t heard before: Glurge. But I’ve certainly experienced it. Now you can, too…

“Why are people such assholes?” Someone asked me the other day. I replied, “Because that’s what we do.” (And that’s why we need governance.)

“Humans have an even longer history of violence than do governments”

I’m not suggesting we all need to experience torture or deprivation to know what it’s like to be human. Far from it. But we do need to realize what’s lurking just under the patina of polite society.

Defenders of unscientific ideas use gullibility: “you have to keep an open mind,” and Radical Skepticism: “you can never have absolute certainty.”

What seems to offend them most is the utter lack of evidence for any of what religious people believe, and atheists’ lack of restraint in pointing that out. That’s it.