Top 16 Joseph McCabe Quotes
#1. The absence of theistic belief...
{Defining the word 'atheism'}
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#3. I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
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#4. A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.
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#5. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...
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#6. Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century.
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#7. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
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#8. The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.
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#9. Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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#11. The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
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#12. The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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#13. An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
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#14. If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
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#15. The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
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#16. Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.
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