It is an honor to be here today to represent the Central Florida Freethought Community and your atheist, agnostic, humanist, and other non-religious constituents. Nevertheless, I hope my comments will resonate with every resident.
As you are well aware, Orange County’s population is very...
Every man,wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which will move with him like flies on a summers day.
Bertrand Russell
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
― Karl Marx
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
Bertrand Russell
It's an interesting cultural and political phenomena.
One of the precepts that supports the British class system is a view that as long as one is 'nice' to people then one can carry doing whatever one wants within the law, mostly.
Of course this tends to stifle meaningful debate and supports the...