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
“it is only that Christianity expressly forbids the various evils that have been done by Christians, whereas democracy, in principle, forbids nothing (except, of course, the
defeat of the majority's will). Moreover,”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
defeat of the majority's will). Moreover,”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity’s history had been nothing but an interminable pageant of violence, tyranny, and sexual neurosis. He may have hated many Christians for their hypocrisy, but he hated Christianity itself principally on account of its enfeebling solicitude for the weak, the outcast, the infirm, and the diseased; and, because he was conscious of the historical contingency of all cultural values, he never deluded himself that humanity could do away with Christian faith while simply retaining Christian morality in some diluted form, such as liberal social conscience or innate human sympathy.”
― 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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“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,”
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
― Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
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