“It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

On the conceits of pious theists and rationalistic atheists.
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)

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American protestant theologian 1892–1971

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