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Ian Hammond
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“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
“Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
“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.”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“What I find most mystifying in the arguments of the authors I have mentioned, and of others like them, is the strange presupposition that a truly secular society would of its nature be more tolerant and less prone to violence than any society shaped by any form of faith. Given that the modern age of secular governance has been the most savagely and sublimely violent period in human history, by a factor (or body count) of incalculable magnitude, it is hard to identify the grounds for their confidence.”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
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