Chapman Cohen quotes

Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise. (Chapman Cohen)
Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech. View quote
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All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong. View quote
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Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. View quote
Chapman Cohen
Granting that an illusion may have its uses, it can only be of service so long as we do not know it to be an illusion. View quote
Chapman Cohen
Facts are more insistent than theories, and in the last resort it is the nature of things which determine the course of our actions. View quote
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Of the four terms ... Praise, Blame, Punishment, and Responsibility, the cardinal and governing one is the last. View quote
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The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions. View quote
Chapman Cohen