thought of the day.430

“To live sustainably, we must live efficiently--not misdirecting or squandering the earth's precious resources. To live efficiently, we must live peacefully for military expenditures represent an enormous diversion of resources from meeting basic human needs. To live peacefully, we must live with a reasonable degree of equity or fairness for it is unrealistic to think that, in a communications-rich world, a billion or more persons will accept living in absolute poverty while another billion live in conspicuous excess. Only with greater fairness in the consumption of the world's resources can we live peacefully, and thereby live sustainably, as a human family. Without a revolution in fairness, the world will find itself in chronic conflict with wars over dwindling resources and this, in turn, will make it impossible to achieve the level of cooperation necessary to solve problems such as pollution and population.”

~ Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity

thought of the day.429

We’re all born atheists so to be “born again” is to come full circle.

thought of the day.428

Rather than responding to theistic terminology, it seems better that atheists consider themselves naturalists and theists, a-naturalists.

thought of the day.427

An atheist may want to believe God exists but doesn’t based on the lack of evidence whereas a Christian may doubt the existence of God but believes anyway—just in case.