To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HypatiaStichwörter: hell
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
HypatiaStichwörter: dogma dogmatic-religion
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
HypatiaStichwörter: truth belief fight miracles teaching fables indoctrination myths misdirection fantasies intangible superstitions refutation
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