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Today we celebrate the birthday of Rene Descartes, born in 1596. Like all philosophers of his era, he was wrong about most everything, but unlike most other philosophers, his wrongness at least led to valuable contributions to human knowledge. Yesterday's Gospel reading was the usual one for the Sunday after Easter, the one about Doubting Thomas. The one in which it becomes glaringly obvious that religion and rational thought are utterly incompatible. Thomas, the rational thinker, said hey, show me the evidence and I'll believe. The religious view is you're supposed to believe without evidence, so there's no way you can know you're not believing total hogwash. The first Freedom mentioned in the First Amendment is freedom of religion. I think they musta forgot about freedom of rational thought. Maybe we oughta enact an amendment to the First Amendment. Oh well, today's gonna rain all day, so says the Wondrous Weather Website. That'll be fun to watch, even if you don't bother to think rationally about it. Happy Monday! OrneryPest |
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you've just gotta have a (gasp) banner (shudder) to link to me,
I suppose I'll let you download this one for the purpose, if you really insist.
