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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. my own view on religion is that of lucretius. i regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
-Bertrand Russell
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Religion Is Based ... Mainly Upon Fear

Bertrand Russell
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. my own view on religion is that of lucretius. i regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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My own view on religion is that of lucretius. i regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. i cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. it helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. these two services i am prepared to acknowledge, but i do not know of any others.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. it is because fear is at the basis of those two things. in this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.
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... even if lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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