Steven Pinker - The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely...

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existencethe gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

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The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existencethe gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason Steven Pinker

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