a later date » sunday sermonettes http://blog.mittenartworks.com mitten muses, rants and raves about life, the internet, web design and art Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:43:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 sunday sermonette http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-6 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-6#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:15:24 +0000 admin http://blog.mittenartworks.com/?p=318 To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.
- Richard Dawkins, scientist

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

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- Isaiah Berlin

]]> http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-5/feed 0 sunday sermonette http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-4 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-4#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:24:12 +0000 admin http://blog.mittenartworks.com/?p=279 You make it sound easy
You say just hold your hand out don’t you
You just hold your hand out don’t you
That hope never leaves you
‘Cos a light shines on that helps you to steer
Makes everything clear
(Well it might)
Well it might in your world
(but it doesn’t)
But it doesn’t in mine
(I’ve been stumbling)
I’ve been stumbling in the dark for years
And the light just made me blind

You say it lights every pathway
Shows me how to live life
For the rest of my days
For the rest of my days
(But I can’t)
But I can’t put my faith in
(Your words)
Your words and demands
(I believe)
I believe in God alright
It’s folk like you I just can’t stand

You don’t have to try and scare me
To reinforce my faith sir
‘Cos I know that one day
I’ll stand before my maker

(And it I’m found)
And if I’m found wanting
(When my case)
When my case is heard
(It’ll be)
It’ll be by the author
Not some interpreter of his words

You make it sound easy
You say just hold your hand out don’t you
You just hold your hand out don’t you
That hope never leaves you
‘Cos a light shines on that helps you to steer
Makes everything clear
(Well it might)
Well it might in your world
(but it doesn’t)
But it doesn’t in mine
(I’ve been stumbling)
I’ve been stumbling in the dark for years
And the light just made me blind
Yeah the light just made me blind

- The Proclaimers, The Light (3.9MB)

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- Blaise Pascal

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- James Madison

]]> http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-3/feed 0 sunday sermonette http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-2 http://blog.mittenartworks.com/sunday-sermonette-2#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:19:37 +0000 admin http://blog.mittenartworks.com/?p=239 There is no rational ground of any sort or kind in keeping a child ignorant of anything that he may wish to know, whether on sex or on any other matter. And we shall never get a sane population until this fact is recognized in early education, which is impossible so long as the churches are able to control educational politics.

- Bertrand Russell

“Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, 1957 (p. 29)

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- Bertrand Russell

Book: “Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, 1957 (p. vi)

(for the genesis of the Sunday Sermonette meme, see Majikthise and James Wolcott)

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