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“the only ideological or political factions that have made any attempt at an ethics consistent with Darwinian science, to this point at least, have been the socialist eugenics movement of the early twentieth century and the Nazi movement that sprang from it. Obviously,”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

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“the modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

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“it seems obvious that both the religious and the irreligious are capable of varying degrees of tolerance or intolerance, benevolence or malice, depending on how they understand the moral implications of their beliefs.”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

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“Good artists borrow, great artists steal"
—attributed to Pablo Picasso, unverified.”
― Pablo Picasso?

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“Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.”
― David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

tags: galileo, kepler, newton, science-and-religion

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