[God is] not outside reason and logic, just outside of the laws of physics and those sorts of things accepted as always true in the universe. I compare confining god to physics and ideas such as having a beginning, to be the same as confining a painter to be 2-dimensional and made out of paint.
― captmonkey (Reddit)
Scientists explore the world with a fundamental tenet of faith that the world is sane, follows certain rules, and is ordered a certain way. This presumption, is God.
― ShakaUVM (Reddit)
Here’s a friendly reminder:

caffeinatedfeminist:

-You cannot be sexist toward men. Sexism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against men but you CANNOT be sexist toward them.

-You cannot be racist towards white people. Racism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against white people but you CANNOT be racist toward them.

This is not difficult.

“Sexism/racism is based on a system of oppression”
You can’t just change the definition of words to suit your world view.

It’s like If I said “bicycles MUST have aluminum frames, and if they don’t? Well they aren’t bicycles!” It’s stupid and you’re giving your cause a bad name. Stop it.

This is not difficult.

For the record:

sex·ism   /ˈsekˌsizəm/

Noun:

         Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

rac·ism   /ˈrāˌsizəm/

Noun:

  1. The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as…
  2. Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief
Sounds like you need a cigarette

Want? fucking yes!
Need? fucking no!

Three days smoke free!

A faith, like a species, must evolve or go extinct when the environment changes. It is not a gentle process in either case. … It’s nice to have grizzly bears and wolves living in the wild. They are no longer a menace; we can peacefully co-exist, with a little wisdom. The same policy can be discerned in our political tolerance, in religious freedom. You are free to preserve or create any religious creed you wish, so long as it does not become a public menace. We’re all on the Earth together, and we have to learn some accommodation. … The message is clear: those who will not accommodate, who will not temper, who insist on keeping only the purest and wildest strain of their heritage alive, we will be obliged, reluctantly, to cage or disarm, and we will do our best to disable the memes they fight for. Slavery is beyond the pale. Child abuse is beyond the pale. Discrimination is beyond the pale. The pronouncing of death sentences on those who blaspheme against a religion (complete with bounties or reward for those who carry them out) is beyond the pale. It is not civilized, and it is owed no more respect in the name of religious freedom than any other incitement to cold-blooded murder. … That is - or, rather, ought to be, the message of multiculturalism, not the patronizing and subtly racist hypertolerance that “respects” vicious and ignorant doctrines when they are propounded by officials of non-European states and religions.
― Daniel Dennett (via unejeunedemoiselle)


(Source: listot)