You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott
"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals, and 362 to heterosexuals. This doesn't mean God doesn't love heterosexuals, it's just that they need more supervision."-Lynn Lavner
and while I love me some theory, at the end of the day, the way women live their lives and negotiate feminism with their lived realities matters a whole lot more than theory ever will.
"Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned [socially conditioned and indoctrinated] people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating."
-Leo Tolstoy
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
-Joseph Wood Krutch
Listen to the mustn'ts, child.Listen to the don'ts.Listen to the shouldn'ts,The impossibles, the won'ts.Listen to the never haves,Then listen close to me ...Anything can happen, child.Anything can be.~ Shel Silverstein
"Make sure your answer uses Scripture, not logic."
-cdevidal, CARM [Comments (29)] [2007-Apr-01]
FundiesSaytheDarndestThings
Beautiful!