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Ο διάνοια ξέρει την ιδέα μέσω της εικόνας
"The intellect knows the idea through the image," Aristotle, De Anima, III, 7

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

* On Fearing Religion ~ Dr. Anthony Campbell

Thomas Nagel and the Fear of Religion
Home page: www.acampbell.org.uk

A fear of religion?

It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

~ Thomas Nagel, "Evolutionary naturalism and the fear of religion", in The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Many secularists feel, not without reason, that the forces of irrationalism are always threatening to return, and this can lead them to embark on excessively vigorous counter-attacks."

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“God’s signs,” George W. Bush declared, “are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own...Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth can separate us from God’s love. May he bless the souls of the departed, may he comfort our own, and may he always guide our country.”
That was said on September 14, 2001, three days after the World Trade Center horror. Reverend Bush's sermon made me feel even worse.

I absolutely believe what Ellie [Contact] believes--that there is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see?

~ Jodie Foster

I don't believe in Heaven and Hell," he says. "I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life--the only thing I know to exist--to be wasted.

~ George Clooney

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