5/31/2023 0 Comments Religion poisons everything book![]() ![]() It will never die out, or at least not until we get over our fear of death, and of the dark, and of the unknown, and of each other. Religious faith is, precisely because we are still-evolving creatures, ineradicable. ![]() It is also the beginningbut by no means the endof all disputes about the good life and the just city. The argument with faith is the foundation and origin of all arguments, because it is the beginningbut not the endof all arguments about philosophy, science, history, and human nature. ![]() I chose this because of its haunting and elusive character, which will be with me at the last hour, and for its essentially secular injunction, and because it shone out from the wasteland of rant and complaint and nonsense and bullying which surrounds it. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. ![]()
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