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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:09:29 GMT  <== Quote ==> 

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"It's like arguing that fairies are coming out of my toaster in the middle of the night. You can't prove to me that there aren't fairies in my toaster, but that doesn't mean you should take me seriously. What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you say "I believe there's an all-powerful force of love in the universe that connects us all, and I have no evidence of that but I believe it in my heart," then it's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that Sharon Tate deserves to die. It's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that you need to fly planes into buildings for Allah."

-- Penn Jillette

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Submitted by feralfae on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:34:40 GMT

Look, everyone knows that fairies do not come out of toasters. There are no toaster fairies. Forest fairies come out of trees, ocean fairies come out of water, etc.

Also, faith in anything is not the same as absolution for initiation of violence. One can have faith in any variety of stuff, but none of that gives anyone any leeway to initiate violence.

Faith in fairies in no way equates to initiation of violence.

Sheesh. Even desert fairies know that much. Let us not confuse faith with initiation of violence, after all.

feralfae

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