Imagine There's No Heaven
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2014-02-25
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Retrieved
- Apr 21, 2014
- ISBN
- WN-dAgAAQB
2 memes from this reference
God Gets Smaller as Knowledge Grows
“The progress of religion is defined,” writes the early-twentieth-century philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “by the denunciation of gods.” Gods become fewer in number until there is only one—or a Father, Son and Holy Ghost adding up to one. And the qualities of the lonely God that is left are also denounced. He…
Science was Inconvenient for Religion
Science’s contributions to the spread of disbelief is the least controversial segment of the virtuous cycle for which I am arguing in seventeenth-century Europe. For science’s methods are clearly troublesome for religion. The devout, to begin with, are not wont to view their precepts merely as propositions to be…