The Daily Scroll September 7, 2022
Some insights on how we are born without the idea of religion and quotes from Lenny Bruce and Dostoyevsky.
The Daily Text
Good Sense by Baron D’Holbach
Man is not born with any ideas of Religion
The principles of every religion are founded upon the idea of a God. Now, it is impossible to have true ideas of a being who acts upon none of our senses. All our ideas are representations of sensible objects. What then can represent to us the idea of God, which is evidently an idea without an object? Is not such an idea as impossible, as an effect without a cause? Can an idea without an archetype be anything but a chimera? There are, however, divines who assure us that the idea of God is innate; or that we have this idea in our mother's womb. Every principle is the result of reason; all reason is the effect of experience; experience is acquired only by the exercise of our senses: therefore, religious principles are not founded upon reason, and are not innate.
Quotes
As for me, I’ve long resolved not to think whether man created God or God man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You believe that there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that’s dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
Lenny Bruce