Friday, September 21, 2012

* When Giants Strode Our World: Lord Bertrand Russell 1872-1970





 

 

Link to Original Yale Daily News article

 

 

 

 

RexMottram08 5 hours, 42 minutes ago



This is an excellent lesson for Yale students. Too many students are pulled into the leverage-fed investment banks and the mediocre non-profits. Yale needs more builders, creators, innovators, inventors, entrepreneurs, business owners...
The greatest gifts to mankind are Christianity, markets, the British Empire and penicillin. Yale does a disservice to students by ignoring the first three.
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BlindlyAgreesWithAboveComment 5 hours, 13 minutes ago



Hurrah for Christianity!
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theantiyale 4 hours, 48 minutes ago



Christianity?

Did you overlook the violence to millions of folks, committed in its name (Crusade anyone?), the utter arrogance and country-club elitism of declaring no one can come to the father (Ultimate Reality) except through the son (a "Christ" cooked up forty years after the death of the Palestinian Carpenter named Joshua ben Joseph by his fanatic followers, including the misogynistic Saint, Paul,and then "Trinitized" deacdes later in a political treaty called the 
Council of Nicea)?

Did you overlook this?

As Bertrand Russell said in "Why I am Not a Christian":
Any religion which introduced into the world the notion of "eternal damnation" is ipso facto, evil.
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dawz 1 hour, 49 minutes ago



Wow, a wealthy white Western man's opinion about the state of the world. I had never heard that before.
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theantiyale
 46 minutes ago


A wealthy white man whose Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead) is considered the most important contribution to mathematics since Eucid.
A wealthy white man who at 88 fathered the world-wide Anti-Nuclear movement.
A wealthy white man who convened the first World Court as its Chief Justice and tried the United States for War crimes (Guilty!).
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