“If you had to quickly flee both your home and country, what one possession would you make sure you take with you?”
“If you want an easy life, indulge yourself in despair.”
“It’s also a wildly presumptuous leap to project my own apathy onto God.”
“Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.”
“People mainly leave the church for one of two reasons: it’s either the assholes or the problem of suffering.”
“The real question is, what does ‘Jesus’ symbolize?”
“The universe appears to be slightly lopsided, and even rather cold in one part.”
“Dinosaurs are changing so fast that the monstrous creatures we imagine in our youth become strangers as scientific discovery continues to tweak what we know about them.”
“The apparent apathy of the public and the enthusiasm of government has allowed sites like Facebook to get away with degrees of surveillance that are increasingly Orwellian.”
“Let’s get out of Afganistan, and stop making up wars to fight.”
“Imagine if Germany had a society in which Jewish citizens were imprisoned twice as frequently and then disproportionately executed.”
“You were on the wrong side of legality, morality and history, and lost. Get the f— over it, and be thankful you got representation in our government again so soon after violently rebelling against it.”
“I can’t really remember the last time I saw a public figure do something racist and say, ‘Yes. I am racist. I am sorry and I intend to do something about it.'”
“I’m Your Basic, Small-Government, Obama-Is-the-Antichrist Conservative”
“And don’t worry. You’ll get your turn in the center ring. You can count on that.” (via Jay Lake)
“Things We Do Not Say in Outlook”
“Church Sign Epic Fails: ‘Old Testament Sex'”
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