#stand

The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word 'trinity.' The word 'trinity' appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin. If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural,Transcendence, Afterlife, Deity, Divinity, Theology, Monotheism, Missionary, Immaculate Conception, Christmas, Christianity, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Catholic, Pope, Cardinal, Catechism, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, Good Friday, Doubting Thomas, Advent, Sunday School, Dead Sea, Golden Rule, Moral, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Atheism, Apostasy, Conservative (Liberal is in), Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible. ↗

— Dan Barker

#religion #scripture #separation-of-church-and-state #education

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blinded #compassion #facts #false-interruptations #guessing

Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind. ↗

— Stephen King

#real-love #the-stand #love

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for. ↗

— Charles Evers

#i #i believe #i believe in #most #republicans

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#better-moments #burkett #career #determination #faith

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#bought #brown #buried #down #down the road

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#call #done #extremely #gross-out #i

History develops, art stands still. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#develops #history #stands #still

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#culture #hip-hop #part #rap #talk