No pope ever condemned slavery.
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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
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth -- Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
Joseph McCabe
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
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
Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.
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
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We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.
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