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“Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.”

Men Interest Atheism Modern Progressive Sanity Superstitions Dogma Medieval Glorify

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.”

People Thinking Needs Too Much Modern Exercise Superstitions

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.”

Stills Reason Moving Magic Sea Modern Civilization Moved Ancient Superstitions Passed Away Sorcery

Book:Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization

Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization

“I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.”

Way Wanted Sides Religious Modern Figures Rational Superstitions Suspicious Antiques Modern Politics Nehru

Author:Pankaj Mishra