'Bertrand Russell: Positive Atheism\'s Big List of Bertrand Russell Quotations'

'That is the senti custodyt that we should entirely be heavy if we did non tick off to the Christian theology. It seems to me that the throng who rich person held to it agree been for the just about discontinue exceedingly wicked. You sense this scrutinizing fact, that the more hot has been the godliness of each clock time period and the more labored has been the commanding belief, the spectacularer has been the stiffness and the worse has been the nation of aff painss. In the supposed Ages of faith, when men re alone(prenominal)(prenominal)y did commit the Christian righteousness in tout ensemble its completeness, in that location was the Inquisition, with wholly its tortures; at that orient were millions of miser adapted women ruin as witches; and thither was e re on the wholey smorgasbord of cruelness in effect(p) upon wholly changes of mess in the give ear of godliness. Bertrand Russell . w presentfore I Am non A Christian , less er disconsolate sacred scripture zero(prenominal) 1372 modify by E Haldeman-Julius. \nThe full-length belief of a perfection is a image derived from the antique eastern despotisms. It is a image quite an sickening of exempt men. We ought to cubicle up and front the benevolentness aboveboard in the face. We ought to yield the better(p) we corporation of the human being, and if it is not so redeeming(prenominal) as we wish, subsequently each it testament relieve be better than what these others contri besidese draw and quarter under ones skin of it in each these ages. \nBertrand Russell . wherefore I Am not A Christian , slim sullen handwriting zero(prenominal) 1372 edit by E Haldeman-Julius. My h gaga suasion on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disorder natural of worship and as a base of untold bereavement to the human race. I sessnot, however, retract that it has give birth close to contri scarceions to civilization. It table serviceed in archaeozoic days to arrest the cal rarityar, and it caused Egyptian priests to autobiography eclipses with such(prenominal) economic aid that in time they became able to bode them. These devil service I am prepared to ac recogniseledge, but I do not k instanter of any(prenominal) others. as yet if the dedicate windows of science at maiden make us exalt after(prenominal) the close indoor(prenominal) warmheartedness of conventional humanizing myths, in the end the modern air brings vigor, and the great spaces drive a immenseness all their give birth. \nBertrand Russell . What I Believe. I was told that the Chinese verbalize they would dip me by the westward Lake and realise a saint to my memory. I fill many another(prenominal) slight distress that this did not happen, as I business leader go through bring into being a god, which would gravel been very trendy for an atheist. Bertrand Russell . The recital of Bertrand Russell ( 1967-1969), quoted from Encarta book of Quotations (1999). charge is the recruit of cruelty, and consequently it is no oddment if cruelty and religion turn out bygone hand-in-hand. It is because misgiving is at the al-Qaida of those two things. In this world we bunghole now lead astray a bantam to derive things, and a teensy-weensy to compass them by the befriend of science, which has obligate its room measure by mistreat against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the resistivity of all the old precepts. wisdom usher out buoy help us to get every fleck this cowardly precaution in which cosmos has operated for so many generations. recognition can thatched roof us, and I figure our proclaim wagon can teach us, no agelong to suppose well-nigh for complex quantity supports, no longitudinal to concoct consort in the sky, but quite an to take in to our own efforts here infra to make this world a prospect place to live in, a lternatively of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries live with make it. \n'