Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireMots clés injustice religion atheism skepticism absurdities atrocities barbarity
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
[Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822]
Mots clés reason gullibility absurdities trinity martyrs the-trinity athanasian athanasian-creed trinitarian
When sceptical about reality, man tends to believe the absurd.
Raheel FarooqMots clés reality knowledge skepticism absurdities
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