An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be main… - Joseph McCabe

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

Joseph McCabe

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Joseph Martin McCabe (12 November 1867 – 10 January 1955) was a well-known atheist and author of numerous books. He had been a Catholic priest.

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The absence of theistic belief...

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

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.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. - Joseph McCabe

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