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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... 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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atheism
atheist
bias
brainwashing
cheat
conformity
emotion
evidence
falsity
honor
indoctrination
orthodox
religionists
truth
value
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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"Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits in the classic formulation.
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anarchism
authority
brainwashing
chomsky
democracy
indoctrination
propaganda
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Noam Chomsky |
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was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
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atheism
atheist
berkman
biography
brainwashing
deceit
stultifying
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David Burns |