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"Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve." --
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socialism
equality
inquisition
stalin
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
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inquisition
heresy
revolution
power
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Umberto Eco |
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5e3c09b
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Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
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religion
inquisition
middle-ages
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Michela Wrong |
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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
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freedom
reason
education
philosophy
good-sense
freedom-of-religion
inquisition
doctrine
schooling
rationality
freedom-of-thought
independent-thought
persecution
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Iain Pears |
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We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite directions. But this effort at special identity is loudly false. It is not religion but the church and science that were hostile to each other. And it was rivalry, not contravention. Both were religious. They were two giants fuming at each other over the same ground. Both proclaimed to be the only way to divine revelation.
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church-politics
the-auguries-of-science
inquisition
science-vs-religion
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Julian Jaynes |