“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.” ThinkingWorldWayEarthBeliefSinFineEvolutionBlindCosmosNew WaysInvitedWay Of ThinkingAdmirableEccentricBlind FaithUnchangingSpunSpecksRationaleCausationCobwebsNew Ways Of Thinking Author:Adrian Desmond
“If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWayBeliefChristReligiousSinMoralGraceNiceMoralityConceptsImportanceFollowingBrilliantRighteousnessFraudPeculiarBeing NiceRailTithingHarming OthersFollowing RulesMoral Beliefs Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.” PeopleHumansDoeTogetherIndividualBeliefGivenSinCreativeEnvironmentGroupsConditionsHuman NatureOvercomingErrorsOptimisticInevitableWorking TogetherMutualImperfectHuman ConditionRegulationMultitudesRestraintBe CreativeConstructiveMutual RespectTrusting People Author:Peter Senge
“We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.” BeliefSinSuperstitionsUnfair Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.” PeopleIfsWorldWayBelieveMeanDoeDifferentAsksBeliefChurchPrayerSinAnswersWonderfulOrdinarySickMiracleForgivingHealDifferent ThingsScience And ReligionWonderful ThingsOrdinary PeopleMosquesGod ForgivesGod Answers PrayersGod Heals Author:Richard Dawkins
“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.” ShouldStillsStatesActionPoliticalEvilBeliefFearWealthSinEmotionDangerousDangerSourceEnvyMonstersUrgesEnginesStableConsensusPolitical ActionDeadly Sins Author:Paul Johnson
“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature” WellsReasonDoneBeliefSinChristianityDoubtLandElementsMiracleCastsCirclesSupposed To BeImpulseSwimSwimmingGlancesAmbiguousPurpose And Meaning Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality