"Young people themselves should focus less of their expectation on marriage as romance. It never was intended to be only the means by which two people, lost in each other, should find happiness. They should never have been encouraged, or allowed, to think it was this. Marriage may prove a gateway to heaven, or it may not. Certainly it will not be all heaven. Bringing children into the world and rearing them properly is an arduous undertaking, and a heavy responsibility. It calls for intelligence, knowledge, training, and many of the virtues: notably devotion, patience, capacity for faithful and hard labor through long years, and much self-forgetting. As such, people should approach it with consecration, like that of a knight, or one taking holy orders."
- William Gayley Simpson (via eugenicist)
"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
- PHILIP K DICK (via hypnogoria)
My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning: Religion = Child Abuse?
[T]hrough one full chapter of The God Delusion, [Dawkins] maintains that teaching religion to children is child abuse. This is not just an arresting figure of speech, an exaggeration to make a point; Dawkins soberly compares religious upbringing to sexual abuse, and finds religion…
