This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A belief may be larger than a fact.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.
Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.