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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     Absurdities -- Added : April 13, 2020

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