Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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Hitler is a rotten speaker raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.Joseph McCabe
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Joseph McCabe
No pope ever condemned slavery.
Joseph McCabe
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
Joseph McCabe
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way.
Joseph McCabe
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