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Society

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the coloured races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organised churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organised in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Bertrand Russell
November 24, 2018

Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn’t argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we’re doing is, we’re presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.

A. C. Grayling
November 8, 2018

If your self-serving campaign against ‘political correctness’ involves giggling and laughing at the senseless killing of a horse, then you're actually providing clear proof that what you refer to as ‘political correctness’ is actually decency, sensitivity and empathy.

Milly Majich
November 6, 2018

People who are out of work have done nothing wrong and deserve support, not poverty and scorn from a government full of wealthy and entitled people.

Michele O'Neil
November 3, 2018

The blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favours among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

Norman Mailer
November 2, 2018