“. . . so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions. . . .”
-- Frances Wright, freethinker, "Lecture III," 1828 (Life, Letters and Lectures)
For more about Frances Wright, see Women Without Superstition: No Gods - No Masters
For more about Frances Wright, see Women Without Superstition: No Gods - No Masters
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RE: You have been tagged. :)
Five Things Feminism Has Done For Me
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2006/10/five-things-feminism-has-done-for-me.html
Beepbeep...will try to get to it soon as I can! I will have to do some thinking before writing.
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