The Daily Scroll September 9, 2022
Continuing with the text of Good Sense and quotes from Bertrand Russell and Robert Jay Lifton.
The Daily Text
Good Sense by Baron D’Holbach
Every system of religion can be founded only upon the nature of God and man; and upon the relations which subsist between them. But to judge the reality of those relations, we must have some idea of the divine nature. Now, the world exclaims, the divine nature is incomprehensible to man; yet ceases not to assign attributes to this incomprehensible God and to assure us that it is our indispensable duty to find out that God, whom it is impossible to comprehend.
The most important concern of man is what he can least comprehend. If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem reasonable never to think of him; but religion maintains man cannot with impunity cease a moment to think (or rather dream) of his God.
Quotes
If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the main fundamental threat to it is living the truth.
Robert Jay Lifton
Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience • and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce • nothing better than the Ku-Klux-Klan or the Fascists?
Bertrand Russell