delphipsmith: (starstuff)
delphipsmith ([personal profile] delphipsmith) wrote2019-04-03 10:21 pm

A little rational inspiration for your day

The Arizona Senate yesterday opted to open their session not with a prayer, but with an invocation from a member of a local secular humanist group. It's short -- only 2 minutes -- but it brought tears to my eyes. Compassion and reason have both been so scarce lately.

"...before dogmatism sequestered our minds to be automatons in a free world, we are human...Know that we are all part of the universality of existence. Our DNA consists of stardust, ten billion years old. Science discloses that we are the microcosm of the macrocosm..."

Watch or read in full here.

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