(September 19, 2013 at 12:20 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I do feel sympathy for her as she may have been deeply indoctrinated. I don't believe I'm smarter than the religious. I'm just lucky that I escaped that kind of brain-washing from childhood that might have happened if I'd been born into another family or environment.
This puts an ironic twist on the phrase "there but for the grace of god go I."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
