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Corpsy
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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains." Robert G. Ingersoll

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Corpsy
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Corpsy@corpsepilot.bsky.social

Challenge authority (even if in the beginning you only challenge it in how you think about it) & please, question the things you've been led to believe by those you think of as having authority The truth is nothing to fear & the dishonest fear nothing more than the truth

Corpsy
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Corpsy@corpsepilot.bsky.social

A word to the religious that choose to follow me. I'm an atheist. Believe it. I respect your right to believe. The first amendment enshrines it. To respect me you need to keep religion out of our government. Religion has no place in government. If we can agree on that then it's a beginning.

Corpsy
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They did indeed and they wrote about it extensively regardless of the rediculous claim Christofascists make today about this being a "Christian nation".

Mr Z
@zenaphobe.bsky.social

When I was into Christian apologetics it didn't take long to figure out that emotions were the key to successfully convert someone and all the appeals to reason contain a latent attack upon the efficiency of reason "Believe and you'll understand" is the promise, but once you believe, doubt is sin

Number 22
@seamstress22.bsky.social

Socrates’ interlocutor in one of Plato’s books. The ancient dialog asks the question of whether virtue can be taught. I’m left with the impression that it’s inconclusive because Socrates was too fanciful with his premises. But I’m not sure.

Number 22
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It’s interesting how the Gospels seem to answer Socrates directly vis a vis another Platonic dialogue, the Phaedrus. These books… who knows how popular they were when they were mere hundreds of years old. I put some Plato and Gospel in an article in ECV Analog. Check out Russ Burlingame 2 read