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As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted read more
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect read more
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that read more
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
The fewer words the better prayer.
The fewer words the better prayer.
God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, read more
God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.
