Thursday, June 10, 2010

Voltaire, on the perfect religion:
"Would it not be that which taught morality and very little dogma? That which tended to make men just without making them absurd? That which did not order one to believe in things that are impossible, contradictory, injurious to divinity and pernicious to anyone possesing common sense? Would it not be that which did not uphold its belief with executioners, and did not inundate the earth with blood on account of unintelligible sophism?... Which taught only the worship of one god, justice, tolerance, and humanity?"
from A History of God by Karen Armstrong