"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein
Mull it over. Do these inspiring quotes mean anything to you? They do to me. Are these things implemented into your life or are they simply words you read? Are your ethics based on what your heart tells you, or are they based on an outside source like religion? Religion is not a bad thing, but it can become a dangerous thing if people believe that religion makes a person ethical or moral. Fear or punishment and the hope for a reward is something we are taught as kids by our parents when they want us to clean our rooms, "Tommy, go clean your room or else you are grounded. If you do a good job and keep it clean, I will buy you that new video game you wanted!" Come on folks, I think it is time we grow up.
The second quote I have to give a little thanks to Leilani Munter for her work in The Cove. She posted this quote on one of her videos regarding the slaughter. Evil things are going on across the world right now. People are starving, being beaten, wrongfully accused, mislabeled, stripped of civil rights, murdering, and so on, yet some of us simply sit in front of the television and watch it all unfold. Do something. You do not have to go and personally stop a murder, but show you care, get educated, spread the word, start a blog, do something. I have recently been persecuted for "having an issue with protesting for gay (civil) rights." Nothing will stop me from being me. No one will make me lie down and take all the in justices in the world. Silence shows that you have either given up, or that you do not care. I care.
Here's one of my favorite quotes ever from Robert Ingersoll:
ReplyDelete“All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention of barbarian invention is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the coiled form of superstition then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.”