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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their…
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree…
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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical…
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force…
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We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into…
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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to…
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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating…
— William Robertson Smith
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The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
— Bertrand Russell
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing…
— Frans de Waal
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It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God)…
— Richard Swinburne
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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