Pertinent (and impertinent) Bertrand Russell Quotes

[Major Nikon]

20. Do you agree with Einstein?

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me.

I find it utterly hilarious how you make a half-fast charge of intolerance against Russell while simultaneously holding up Einstein as a shining example of tolerance despite taking the exact same rhetoric even farther.

I wonder if you wish you could take back your latest train wreck of a thread. I'm going to favorite that one for times when I can use a good belly laugh.