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It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.