AFA Vice-president Michael Boyd spoke with the Reverend Bill Crews on 2GB about churches paying taxes, as raised in our recent Religious Charity! What Is It Good For? Media Release.
The audio can be found at this link.
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Hast thou reason? I have.
Why then dost not thou use it?
For if this does its own work,
what else dost thou wish?
Marcus Aurelius
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
Gene Roddenberry
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
My mother was Southern Irish, and I was brought up as a devout Catholic. In fact, at one point I thought I'd become a priest, but I'd have made an appalling priest anyway... At 16, I asked all these monks some serious questions and they didn't come up with the answers, and I just decided I didn't believe in God.
Joe Simpson
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”