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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion read more
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites read more
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the read more
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is read more
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence
of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
