SerSparksalot
@sersparksalot.bsky.social
Atheist, secular humanist Progressive takes, separation of church & state, freethought.
#atheism #humanism
#atheism #humanism
April 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh they showed up alright.
April 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Oh they showed up alright.
It is beginning. Packed house.
April 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It is beginning. Packed house.
Inside the Adams center. Waiting for @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social.
April 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Inside the Adams center. Waiting for @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social.
Pretty good crowd for the @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social event in Missoula.
Northwest Montana showing up to resist Prince Trumperdink.
Northwest Montana showing up to resist Prince Trumperdink.
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Pretty good crowd for the @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social event in Missoula.
Northwest Montana showing up to resist Prince Trumperdink.
Northwest Montana showing up to resist Prince Trumperdink.
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
“In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
April 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
But even if that right (of voting) were inherent in property, which I deny, the right of suffrage would still belong to all equally, because, as I have said, all individuals have legitimate birthrights in a certain species of property.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
April 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
But even if that right (of voting) were inherent in property, which I deny, the right of suffrage would still belong to all equally, because, as I have said, all individuals have legitimate birthrights in a certain species of property.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
4/ And yet we are told that we must believe such a doctrine or we are to be eternally damned! It will not do.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll,
― Robert G. Ingersoll,
April 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
4/ And yet we are told that we must believe such a doctrine or we are to be eternally damned! It will not do.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll,
― Robert G. Ingersoll,
🧵 They taught the doctrine that God had a right to damn us because he made us. That is just the reason that he has not a right to damn us. There is some dust. Unconscious dust!
April 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
🧵 They taught the doctrine that God had a right to damn us because he made us. That is just the reason that he has not a right to damn us. There is some dust. Unconscious dust!
And yet there are some judges dishonest and cowardly enough to solemnly decide that this is a Christian country, and that our free institutions are based upon the infamous laws of Jehovah.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
And yet there are some judges dishonest and cowardly enough to solemnly decide that this is a Christian country, and that our free institutions are based upon the infamous laws of Jehovah.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations... but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.”
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
April 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations... but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.”
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
all the results of investigation, observation, experience and free thought; all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.” 🔚
― Robert G Ingersoll
― Robert G Ingersoll
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
all the results of investigation, observation, experience and free thought; all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.” 🔚
― Robert G Ingersoll
― Robert G Ingersoll
Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.
Nothing could be more absurd. 🧵
Nothing could be more absurd. 🧵
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.
Nothing could be more absurd. 🧵
Nothing could be more absurd. 🧵
Our hands off signs are ready. Time to protest
April 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our hands off signs are ready. Time to protest
7/ The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
April 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
7/ The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
🧵 The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
April 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🧵 The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
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― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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― Robert G. Ingersoll
― Robert G. Ingersoll
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus?
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus?
This is real religion. This is real worship”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
― Robert Green Ingersoll
April 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is real religion. This is real worship”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile.
April 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile.
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
April 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
― Thomas Paine
― Thomas Paine