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“Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”
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“For the human brain,鈥 Edmond explained, 鈥渁ny answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 鈥榠nsufficient data,鈥 and so our brains invent the data鈥攐ffering us, at the very least, the illusion of order鈥攃reating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”
― Origin
― Origin
“Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.”
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“Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God鈥specially when their gods became threatened.”
― Origin
― Origin
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided by the evolution principle, then we would be living in a kind of ultra-Thatcherite, Reaganite society.鈥
鈥淪tudy your Darwinism for two reasons,鈥 he implored, 鈥渂ecause it explains why you鈥檙e here, and the second reason is, study your Darwinism in order to learn what to avoid in setting up society. What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don鈥檛 wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We 鈥 I, at least 鈥 do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
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鈥淪tudy your Darwinism for two reasons,鈥 he implored, 鈥渂ecause it explains why you鈥檙e here, and the second reason is, study your Darwinism in order to learn what to avoid in setting up society. What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don鈥檛 wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We 鈥 I, at least 鈥 do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
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