"To love justice, to long for the right, to love mercy, to pity the suffering, to forget wrongs and remember benefits - to love the truth, to be sincere, to utter honest words, to love liberty, to wage relentless war against slavery in all its forms, to love wife and child and friend, to make a happy home, to love the beautiful; in art, in nature, to cultivate the mind, to be familiar with the mighty thoughts that genius has expressed, the noble deeds of al the world, to cultivate courage and cheerfulness, to make others happy, to fill life with the splendor of generous acts, the warmth of loving words, to discard error, to destroy prejudice, to recieve new truths with gladness, to cultivate hope, to see the calm beyond the storm, the dawn beyond the night, to do the best that can be done and then to be resigned - this is the religion of reason, the creed of science. This satisfies the brain and heart."
-From 19th cent. freethinker Robert Ingersoll's "On Science and Reason," in What's God Got to Do With It?
what happened to our faith that allowed science to claim credit for the above statement?
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I'm not sure, by my money's on some combination of the existance of a TBN satellite and hearing one too many Carman narratives.
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