A quotation from Walter Raleigh
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with those two narrow words, Hic jacet!Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English statesman, soldier, writer, explorer
The Historie of the World, in Five Bookes, Book 5, ch. 6, sec. 12 (1614)
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the…
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, now tailed by a coordinated 'escort', baffles astronomers. Patterned EM pulses and a 38-day 'arrival' timeline fuel speculation of intelligent origin.
Trump is no strongman when it comes to #Russia or #Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits
It is too easy to blame Donald #Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any #US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated
Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global #monarch and grand arbiter of #war and #peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, #omnipotence and divine right ...
A quotation from Margaret Atwood
Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)
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Here's a piece in my Substack discussing St. Anselm's reasonings about what an omnipotent God can't do and why that would be the case
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/anselm-of-canterbury-on-divine-power
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#RobinLePoidevin - Alternative Concepts of #God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6edahUXYuxc
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