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“It wasn’t just the fact that Christians were ignorant about philosophical theories that annoyed Celsus; it was that Christians actually reveled in their ignorance.”
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
“Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way, and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“Utter trash. —the Greek intellectual Celsus evaluates the Old Testament”
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
― The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
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