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Joseph McCabe

Defining the word "atheism", in A Rationalist Encyclopedia (1950).

“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”

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The Human Origin of Morals http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mccabe02.htm (1926), p. 59.

“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.”

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The Existence of God (1913).

“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens — great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently — but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

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The Story of Religious Controversy http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_mccabe/religious_controversy/ (1929), p. 86.

“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.”

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The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels (1914).

“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”

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The Existence of God (1913), p. 84.

“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.”

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The Psychology of Religion (1927), p. 47.

“Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.”

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What Gods Cost Man (1933).

“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”

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Joseph McCabe

The Psychology of Religion (1927), p. 48.

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