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Morality must have been part of the human condition a very long time before the world’s awful religions laid claim to it.
Francis Bacon: “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”
May 23rd, 2008 at 21:57
Morality must have been part of the human condition a very long time before the world’s awful religions laid claim to it.
Francis Bacon: “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.”