Stephen R. Prothero - Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince...

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.

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Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side. Stephen R. Prothero

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religions provide opportunities human beings convince righteousness speak god war god' behalf 'blasphemy certainty' rife secularists case science proletariat side

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