Wednesday, November 21, 2012

New! Russell's China Teapot Lapel Pin

In response to customer requests, Ring of Fire Enterprises has created a teapot pin to symbolize Bertram Russell's thoughts on atheism:

“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.” - Bertrand Russell


"Russell's Teapot" lapel pin is a full 3d shape in bright silver. 1" wide. It is $9.95 and is available here.