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“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”

Should Matter Moral Virtue Atheism Effects Policy Habit Intellectual Concern Concerned Positive Atheism Inevitable Discouraging Public Policy Instill

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Seems Atheism Habit Ordinary Positive Atheism Surface Creeds Anarchism Bullied Renunciation Pacifism Habits Of Mind Dirtiness

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”

Knows Persons Christian Desire Father House Christ Church Rooms Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Convinced Mourning Departure Splendor Mansions Ardent

Book:The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

Source: The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

“Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.”

Ifs Years Long Helping Seems Government Liberty Atheism Information Habit Positive Atheism Desperate Steady Rope Bark Clergy Subordination Tow

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.”

Christian Prayer Morning Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Worldly Old Habits Morning Prayer

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.”

Believe Soul Lasts I Believe Memories Atheism Habit Activity Positive Atheism Hopeless Plus Organisms Mosquitoes Sims

Author:Jack London

“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Care Christian Form Law Belief Taken Atheism Childhood Habit Our Children Slave Positive Atheism Paris Customs Bent False Gods

Author:Voltaire

“The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.”

Way Religion Easy Atheism Habit Cynical Easy Way

Author:Peter Ustinov