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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the...more

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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

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Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, i...more

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That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have...more