Absurdities

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You shall eat a certain root and wings will grow on your shoulders.

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For I should not have rightly discovered things celestial if I had not suspended the intellect...

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Phidippides: My good sir, what is the matter with you, O father? You are not in your senses, by Olympian Jupiter!

Strepsiades: See, see, "Olympian Jupiter!" What folly! To think of your believing in Jupiter, as old as you are!

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[Ancient, Babylonian, astronomical text] How much is one god beyond the other god?

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Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing...

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Absurdity and unintelligibility are the essence of a successful creed and that in these respects nothing could hope to compete with Catholicism.

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Religious principles are also a blemish in any polite composition, when they rise up to superstition, and intrude themselves into every sentiment, however remote from any connection with religion.

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Where is the evidence that the book of Ruth was written by an inspired man? Where is the evidence that God is the author of the Song of Solomon? Where is the evidence that any human being has been inspired? Where is the evidence that Christ was and is God? Where is the evidence that the places called heaven and hell exist? Where is the evidence that a miracle was ever wrought?

There is none.

Theology is entirely independent of evidence.

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...theologians, whose existence and possibility there always gives psychologists new and more subtle puzzles to solve.

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To know and acknowledge essences alone and nothing but essences, that is religion; its realm is a realm of essences, spooks, and ghosts.

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We seek not to despoil the clergy of what the liberality of their followers has given them; we wish them, since most of them secretly laugh at the untruths they teach, to join us in preaching the truth.

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April 13, 2020 : Absurdities -- Added.

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