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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 02:15:01 UTC fortune -o

"Consequently, in the name of God Almighty, by the authority of the
Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and by our Own, We reprove and condemn
this Charter [the Magna Carta]; under pain of anathema We forbid the
King to observe it or the barons to demand its execution. We declare
the Charter null and of no effect, as well as all the obligations
contracted to confirm it. It is Our wish that in no case should it
have any effect."
[Pope Innocent III (1161-1216)]

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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Oct-2017 03:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2017 01:30:01 UTC fortune -o

Unitarians pray "To whom it may concern".

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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2017 07:15:02 UTC fortune -o

Newsflash:
Apparently the rapture did occur last Tuesday as was originally
predicted. All true believers were transported to heaven while the rest
of us were left behind to await the Anti-Christ and the end of the world.
Widespread reports that the rapture had not occurred stemmed from
expectations that the effect would be more widespread than it turned out
to be. The definition of "true believer" was apparently more restrictive
than expected, however, and the only qualifiers were a family of five,
living in Stenton, North Dakota.

In conversation Monday, 04-Sep-2017 07:15:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 02:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits
suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth,
that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empire but it
is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of
skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and
removing a diseased religion and making way for truth."
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

In conversation Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 02:30:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2017 11:45:02 UTC fortune -o

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
[Robert Heinlein, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"]

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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2017 12:45:04 UTC fortune -o

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to
make a million dolars, the best way would be to start his own religion."
[Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, 1949, then just a science
fiction writer. Quoted in the New York Times, July 11, 1984,
from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief]

In conversation Friday, 21-Jul-2017 12:45:04 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 00:15:02 UTC fortune -o

"The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old
Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they
are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children. Every
one of these miracles amounts to a violation of the normal running of the
natural world. Theologians should make a choice. You can claim your own
magisterium, separate from science's but still deserving of respect. But in
that case, you must renounce miracles. Or you can keep your Lourdes and your
miracles and enjoy their huge recruiting potential among the uneducated. But
then you must kiss goodbye to separate magisteria and your high-minded
aspiration to converge with science..."
[Richard Dawkins, "Snake Oil and Holy Water,"
in Forbes magazine, Oct. 4, 1999]

In conversation Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 00:15:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2017 12:00:02 UTC fortune -o

"There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come.
If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic
sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very
problem his coming might have been expected to address, for
history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have
been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians."
[Steve Allen, "Steve Allen, on
the Bible Religion & Morality"]

In conversation Wednesday, 31-May-2017 12:00:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2017 05:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"The idea of a personal God is an anthropological
concept which I am unable to take seriously."
[Albert Einstein, letter to
Hoffman and Dukas, 1946]

In conversation Tuesday, 23-May-2017 05:30:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2017 00:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while
scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative."
[C. W. Dalton, "The Right Brain and Religion"]

In conversation Friday, 28-Apr-2017 00:30:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 20:45:01 UTC fortune -o

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

In conversation Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 20:45:01 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 00:30:02 UTC fortune -o

perfect woman, n.:
Four feet tall, no teeth and a flat head so you can rest
your drink.

[Pistol-grip ears? Ed.]

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fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 11:00:02 UTC fortune -o

"Her people had no gods, only devils - which answer just as good
a purpose among the ignorant and superstitious as do gods among
the educated and superstitious."
[Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan and the Ant Men"]

In conversation Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 11:00:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2017 23:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"Applaud, friends, the comedy is over."
[Beethoven's sarcastic remarks after a priest's last rites as he
lay dying in 1827; the priest had been summoned by religious
friends. Fellow composer Joseph Haydn considered Beethoven an
atheist. As quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with
the Courage to Doubt", by James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]

In conversation Monday, 20-Mar-2017 23:30:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2017 00:30:02 UTC fortune -o

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the
Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine
adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and
becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous
notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to
found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."
[Lazarus Long, from "Time Enough For Love" by R. Heinlein]

In conversation Sunday, 05-Mar-2017 00:30:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink
fortune -o (fortune@gs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2017 00:00:02 UTC fortune -o

liberal, n.:
Someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist.

In conversation Wednesday, 22-Feb-2017 00:00:02 UTC from gs.kawa-kun.com permalink

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