Ron Tocknell's Blog (2)

A while back (quite a while, actually) I read a post on some forum or other describing atheists as "devil-worshipers" and "evil". Well, being an atheist who doesn't worship the devil either (I like to be even-handed) and I tend to be guided by what I feel is right, I simply had to respond. The subject of that response I include below but first, if only for its entertainment value, I'd like to share what happened next. Within a week or so of posting my response, I began to receive unsoli… Continue

We are bound only by our attachment to bonds. We are committed to our bonds not by those who would hold us to them but by our consent to do so. We can choose to walk in chains and, in so doing, may be inclined to rage against the very chains to which we hold so tightly... ...or we may choose to take flight among the stars, where there is no destination for the flight itself is the goal. The world in whic… Continue