Rebirth of Reason

Warren Chase Anspaugh

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(Quotes) Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
(News) French Lady Begs for Euthanasia
(Quotes) The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.
(Quotes) If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.
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Quotes - Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is n... - 3
   Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 4:41pm -- The way I understood the quote, is that Bill Gates doesn't go to church (and is ...
News Discussions - French Lady Begs for Euthanasia - 3
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News Discussions - French Lady Begs for Euthanasia - 0
   Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 5:12pm -- It's staggering how utterly evil it is for a woman in such a condition to even h...
General Forum - Dr Hurd: The Reality of Values - 0
   Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 1:17am -- Q: Dr. Hurd, how can you say that values are objective and not relative? Isn't t...
Dissent - Can Objectivists Really Be Sure There is No Afterlife? - 28
   Sunday, January 6, 2008 - 12:57am -- Wouldn't believing in some colorful, fantastical, heavenly afterlife with Unicor...
General Forum - Ethics - 0
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Videos - John Galt Speaking, Part Nine - 12
   Friday, December 7, 2007 - 9:57pm -- Ken, perhaps you've seen it, but I recently posted a thread in the banter forum ...
Objectivism Q&A - Defining Economics Objectively - 39
   Saturday, August 4, 2007 - 5:37pm -- Eddie, upon further retrospect, "scarcity" indeed carries misleading connotation...
Objectivism Q&A - Defining Economics Objectively - 34
   Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 11:06pm -- If it is proper to define by essentials, then I would personally define Economic...
Objectivism Q&A - Genetics, Identical Twins, and Free Will - 11
   Monday, June 18, 2007 - 1:12pm -- Another thought occurs to me - how many people actually exercise free will vs. h...