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TRUTH BE KNOWN
(Investigator 138, 2011 May)
Religion is regarded by the simplest as true by the wisest as false and
by the Rulers as useful. [Seneca 4 b.c. – 65 a.d.]
When your neighbour makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, be cautious in dealing with him. When he makes his second pilgrimage, avoid him. When he makes the third one, move to another neighborhood. [Arab Proverb] I was an atheist until I realized I was GOD. [Eastbourne, U.K.] Religious belief can be regarded as a virus of the mind. [Richard Dawkins] Religious faith resembles in a terrible manner a continuous suicide of Reason. [Nietsche] I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusive human concept with no superhuman authority behind it. [Albert Einstein] Faith is belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [Ambroise Bierce] How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us. [Pope Leo X, 1513 – 1521 a.d.] God is dead—Nietsche Nietsche is dead—God God and Nietsche are dead. [History] What fools the Christian religion has made of mankind. [Jean de la Bruyere—1688] Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. [Amile Zola 1840–1902] The only remedy for superstition [Religion] is Knowledge, faith is not knowledge. Brian de Kretser — Darwin, Australia |