"Christianity
offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing
it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. The craving for
religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith
tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In
this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to
entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in
the best way.In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity."
-Bertrand Russell "Education and the Social Order" (1932) p. 107
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