pages tagged unfreiwell-adjustedhttp://blog.well-adjusted.de/tags/unfrei/well-adjustedikiwiki2012-08-31T09:42:09ZReligion: The ultimate tyrannyhttp://blog.well-adjusted.de/posts/religion-tyranny/2012-08-31T09:42:09Z2012-08-14T20:42:31Z
<p>Ich wollte ja gerne zitieren, aber es fällt schwer, den besten Abschnitt
rauszufischen. Na gut, ein Versuch, hart an der Grenze des Zitatrechts:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no aspect of our lives, no matter how intimate, which
religion does not unblushingly insist on its right to control. Whom we
may love, whom we may desire, with whom we may physically express
those feelings: in such restrictions on our freedom religion is at its
most insistent and intrusive. But it does not stop even here, for
religion does not limit its control to our deeds or even words: no,
the invisible Thought Police of religion do not scruple to pursue us
even into the innermost recesses of our minds and there to stand ready
to condemn us for our very thoughts. Not even the most heinous ruler
or most brutal slave-owner ever achieved such extremes of tyranny; yet
religion grants us no privacy, nowhere to hide, no freedom to
entertain even a fleeting thought without its being immediately known
to - and judged by - a cosmic dictator. Religion is the ultimate
slavery: it is the slavery of the mind, slavery to the fear of divine
judgment and damnation. The devilish irony consists in the fact that
'divine judgment' and 'damnation' are themselves the inventions of
religion: religion creates and exquisitely perfects the fear, then
cynically declares itself the sole and indispensable liberator from
it.</p></blockquote>
<p>– <a href="http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/paula_kirby/2011/02/religion_the_ultimate_tyranny.html">Paula Kirby</a>, Washington Post "On Faith"</p>
+1http://blog.well-adjusted.de/posts/plusminus/2012-08-02T19:02:15Z2012-08-02T19:02:15Z
<p>Ich bin <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109630305220808497672/posts">schwach geworden</a>. Aber hey, über Facebook kann ich ja
weiter lästern!!1!</p>