Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the Communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define “faith” as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of “faith”. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. Selections of sayings about christianity and the relationship of science and religion.
Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the Communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define “faith” as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of “faith”. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. Selections of sayings about christianity and the relationship of science and religion.
Lucretius on Religion
A disease born of fear and a source of untold misery to the human race.
Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the Communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define “faith” as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of “faith”. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence.
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Walking one day in town, the vicar, preoccupied with parish problems and an upcoming ecclesiastical visit, was addressed by a cheery, “Hi ya!” It was a girl whose face was familiar. Taking her to be church member, he stopped, shook hands, remarked on the weather, and the harvest, talking all the time, trying to recollect her name. Meanwhile she looked slightly askance at him through all of this chatter. At last, defeated in his attempt to remember, he decided to come clean. “My dear, I know your face but I can’t recall where I have seen you before.” “Father, I’m your daughter, Eleanor.”
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American schoolchildren don’t do enough schoolwork. There are 180 days in the standard school year in the United States, as compared with 220 in South Korea, about 230 in Germany, and 243 in Japan. Children in some of these countries go to school on Saturday. The average American high school student spends 3.5 hours a week on homework. The total time devoted to studies, in and out of the classroom, is about 20 hours a week. Japanese fifth-graders average 33 hours a week. Japan, with half the population of the United States, produces twice as many scientists and engineers with advanced degrees every year.
