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To: Greg or e who wrote (61412)	10/27/2014 10:27:21 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

'Nothing softens the heart as much as the consciousness of one's guilt, and nothing hardens it as much as the belief in one's self righteousness.' ~ Tolstoy "If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember anything" ~ Mark Twain

To: Greg or e who wrote (61412)	10/28/2014 4:53:53 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Do you think God wrote that simplistic pablum? Did he write this: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! "?? Did he write this: "Look for me in every drop of rain. Feel me in every breath of wind. I am the mover of all. I carry the Righteous to the heavens, but the wicked I shall cast asunder." Then what is your point??

To: Greg or e who wrote (61412)	10/28/2014 5:41:42 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." Plato

To: Greg or e who wrote (61412)	10/28/2014 6:06:57 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men -- nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, quoted from the Address, Ingersoll the Magnificent, delivered by Joseph Lewis on August 11th 1954 dedicating, as a Public Memorial, the house in which Robert G Ingersoll was born, Dresden, Yates County, in the state of New York.

To: Greg or e who wrote (61412)	10/28/2014 6:10:29 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Recommended By 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. -- Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Gods" (1872) Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? -- Robert Green Ingersoll, " Some Mistakes of Moses"