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Rationalism We're not trying to promote atheism here (God forbid!) but as always a little tolerance and free thinking and some tools to break out of a reality tunnel... "I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them." - Bertrand Russell. "For
my own part I would rather be descended from that heroic little
monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of
his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains,
carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished
dogs - as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers
up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats
his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest
superstitions." "I
am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom
is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they
can get." |
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| "Out
of all the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence:
the overwhelming majority just happens to choose the one that their
parents belong to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in favour,
the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the
best stained glass, the best music; when it comes to choosing from
the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues
seem to count for nothing, compared to the matter of heredity. This
is an unmistakable fact; nobody could seriously deny it. Yet people
with full knowledge of the arbitrary nature of this heredity, somehow
manage to go on believing in their religion, often with such fanaticism
that they are prepared to murder people who follow a different one."
"I
do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with
sense, reason and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use."
"The
world holds two classes or men - intelligent men without religion,
and religious men without intelligence." "With
or without religion you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion." "Those
who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
"Faith
is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by
faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own
merits." "There
is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant
opposition, persecution and war, and all evil in the state as religion.
Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon would
be destroyed. Those who made out constitution saw this, and used
the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a
catastrophe." "The
man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor
to himself and to his fellow-men." "The
biggest cause of the trouble in the world today is that the stupid
people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are full
of doubts." "Why
be born again, when you can just grow up." Links: Books / Resources: |
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The
God Delusion |
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The
Lucifer Principle |
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I'm Ok - You're Ok |
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The
Life of Brian amazon.co.uk |
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Thought
Contagion |
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The
Perennial Philosophy |
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The
Hero With A Thousand Faces |
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The
Golden Bough |
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Quantum
Psychology |
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The
Consolations of Philosophy |
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The
Book |
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A
Guide For The Perplexed |
