Friday 18 April 2014

Let's Think....Saturday 19 April 2014

"How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions."
- Baron d'Holbach, encyclopedist and passionate Enlightenment atheist in Good Sense, 1772

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