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Perry Rod made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 3) topic " "[about God]" is not in the quote. And the question was clearly about the God of Spinoza, you are correct. The misquote was probably due to a ...more "
Oct 22, 2013 12:32PM
Perry Rod liked a quote “...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.” Carl Sagan
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Perry Rod liked a quote “If we are to discuss the idea of God and be restricted to rational arguments, then it is probably useful to know what we are talking about when we say “God.” This turns out not to be easy. The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn’t a real god. They didn’t believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn’t believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.” Carl Sagan
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Perry Rod made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Misattributed Carl Sagan Quote topic " Regarding the quote linked below, this quote was by Emmett F. Fields, in "Atheism : An Affirmative View" (1980), not by Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan is in ...more "
Feb 17, 2013 01:23PM

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“If we are to discuss the idea of God and be restricted to rational arguments, then it is probably useful to know what we are talking about when we say “God.” This turns out not to be easy. The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn’t a real god. They didn’t believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn’t believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: god-atheism-linguistics

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“Now, it would be wholly foolish to deny the existence of laws of nature. And if that is what we are talking about when we say God, then no one can possibly be an atheist, or at least anyone who would profess atheism would have to give a coherent argument about why the laws of nature are inapplicable. I think he or she would be hard-pressed. So with this latter definition of God, we all believe in God.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

tags: god-atheism-pantheism-naturalism

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“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.”
― Carl Sagan, Conversations with Carl Sagan

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