Saturday, February 26, 2022

b russell religon.....


 Example of Bertrand Russell's huomur (The Pious)

"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious-for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity as a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes.
This view strikes me as curious."
Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943)

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