RE: Believing in Deities is a Form of Psychosis
August 1, 2017 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2017 at 12:52 pm by Minimalist.)
Absolutely. I've used this quote before.
Our most ardent jesus freaks on this board would, had they been born in Damascus, be strapping dynamite vests on and shouting Allah Ahkbar before blowing themselves to bits. The religious delusion can serve any god any where at any time.
Quote:If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based.
--Brig. Gen Albert Pike, C.S.A.
Our most ardent jesus freaks on this board would, had they been born in Damascus, be strapping dynamite vests on and shouting Allah Ahkbar before blowing themselves to bits. The religious delusion can serve any god any where at any time.
