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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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emotion
truth
brainwashing
cheat
falsity
orthodox
religionists
bias
indoctrination
conformity
value
evidence
atheism
atheist
honor
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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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chomsky
anarchism
brainwashing
indoctrination
authority
propaganda
democracy
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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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berkman
stultifying
brainwashing
biography
atheism
atheist
deceit
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David Burns |