Joseph Martin McCabe was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a priest earlier in his life.
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“No pope ever condemned slavery”
Joseph McCabe
“Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms”
“The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress”
“Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not "personal magnetism" that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.”
“Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.”
“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”
“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”
“I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.”
“A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.”