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                "Do human standards reflect an underlying nature of man,
                or is everything a matter of custom and covention?
                During the Persian Wars, King Darius asked some Greeks
                how much money they would take to eat the bodies of their
                fathers when they had died. The Greeks were outraged at
                the idea.
                Then Darius asked certain men of India, who eat the bodies
                of their fathers when they die, how much money they would
                take to burn the bodies of their fathers, as the Greeks do.
                The Indians were outraged at the idea.
                Darius concluded that 'Custom was the king.'"
                (The Ideas of Greek Culture, 3 Vol: W. Jaeger. 1945)

       

      "Without the infinite goodness and power of God
      the human personality is empty. The skies would
      be like a cave and the world without hope or
      compassion."
      (Honest to God, John A T Robison)


                                 
                                "If I call God's conduct 'good' no matter what he does,
                                  no one would believe that I am saying more than that
                                  God's conduct is God's conduct. The word 'good' will
                                  not be informative and therefore, when joined with the
                                  word 'conduct,' will tell us no more than the word
                                  'conduct' by itself.
                                  The obvious conclusion is that if the meaning of 'good'
                                  is determined by God's wishes, then the word 'good'
                                  is determined by God's wishes, then the word 'good'
                                  when applied to God is meaningless(i.e., provides no
                                  information about God whatsoever.) And this is the
                                  equivalent of saying that God is not good. Therefore,
                                  either there are moral standards independent of God's
                                  will or else God is not good."
                                  (The Atheist Debater's Handbook, H C Johnson)


        "The common world, which is unharmed by individidual death but depends
    on the survival of the species, has now been placed in jeopardy by nuclear arms.
    Death is only death; extinction is the death of death. The common world is
    what seperates humans from other animals; to speak and listen to one another,
    to write and read, to know about the past and the future, to recieve achievements
    of past generations, and pass them on and out last the individual life and by
    threatening all of this nuclear weapons threaten a part of our humanity."
    (The Fate of the Earth, Johnathan Schell)




    "What is it that make us attribute to pre-modern Semites
    a universal wisdom, and makes us assume that their written
    words are free of ignorance, superstition or prejudice?
    Leviticus gave Aron instructions as to who was to be
    disqualified from approaching God or acting as priest for
    the people. For us today it is a strange list:
    the blind, lame, having multilated face, hunchback or
    dwarf or having scabs or crushed testicles(Lev. 21:18-20).
    None of these prohibitions are excepted today. They are a
    clear example of premodern ignorance. Not even the most
    vigorous fundamentalist would cite these texts to justify
    the exclusion of such persons from any position today."
    (Living in Sin,Bishop John Shelby Sprong)


       
                            "The proud spirit which has poisoned the minds of men
                            is undoubtedly Rationalism. Rationalism developed
                            into Liberalism and finally led to Marxism.
                            The French Revolution, may be reguarded as the universal
                            revolution of ideas called 'Enlightenment' which is still
                            continuing in our times. Indeed the 1789 revolution was
                            a preamble for the 'American Revolution'. The principles
                            of Enlightenment-of Masonic insurection, mingled with a
                            Protestant brand of Christianity was remarkably accommodating
                            with the lower demoninators. George Washington himself
                            once expressed the fear that the Republic might deteriorate to
                            mob rule."
                            (The Coming Chastisement, Yves Dupont 1970 Tan Books)



      "one or two generations of vice...
      monstrous, disgusting vice which turns Man
      into abject, cowardly, cruel and selfish wretch.
      That's what we want.
      And on top of it, a little 'fresh blood'
      to make them get used to it."
      (The Devils, Dostoevsky)


            "If the unconscious is anything at all, it must consist of earlier evolutionary
      stages of our conscious psyche. The assumption that a man in his whole glory
      was created on the sixth day of creation, without any preliminary stages, is
      after all somewhat too simple and archaic to satisfy us nowadays. There is
      a general agreement in regard to the psyche. However, the archaic conception
      holds on tenaciously: the psyche has no antecedents, is a tabula rasa, arises
      anew at birth, and is only what it imagines itself to be."
      (Memories Dreams Reflections, C G Jung)



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