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The Meaning of Atheism
by E. Haldeman-Julius
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One of the most amusing arguments, frequently offered in defense of belief in the
idea of a God, is that such a belief is a way of playing safe . . .
Doesn't the religious person who uses this argument realize that he is appealing to a particularly low form of intellectual cowardice? What men need is courage in their thinking . . . Instead religion harps on the emotion of fear and tells men that they should treat ideas merely as gambling chances and that it is safer (not intellectually the better, but the more craven part) to believe in a God . . . Such weak arguments exemplify the decline of religion and show its utter intellectual bankruptcy.
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