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Atheists & Agnostics

Promethean

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10. Its only that way by modern standards.

Reply to NeoGreen (Reply #8)

Mon Dec 7, 2015, 06:15 PM

Dec 2015

The point he was trying to make is solid its just stuck with an old cultural construct that is currently being torn down. The culture of Tesla's time had religion as assumed to be a positive thing. Unfortunately for Tesla's quote part of the objective now is to fight that automatic assumption of benevolence associated with religion. So I can applaud his being one of the early intellectuals declaring religion to have no factual basis but I cannot support the assumption of benevolence.

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