Thursday April 16, 2009
The empty name of God
A C Grayling
New Statesman
'The basic doctrines of the major religions have their roots in the superstitions and fancies of illiterate peasants living several thousand years ago'
What religious people mean by “god” means nothing to me beyond an incoherent cluster of concepts from which the aforesaid folk choose the subset most convenient to themselves.
But the word brings to mind the man-made phenomenon of religions, whose net effect on humanity now as throughout history has been, by a considerable margin, negative.
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