The Tendency To Claim God

The Scientific Observer Of The Realm Of Nature Is In A Sense Naturally And Inevitably Disinterested. At Least, Nothing In The Natural Scene Can Arouse His Bias. Furthermore, He Stands Completely Outside Of The Natural So That His Mind, Whatever His Limitations, Approximates Pure Mind. The Observer Of The Realm Of History Cannot Be Disinterested In The Same Way, For Two Reasons: First, He Must Look At History From Some Locus In History; Secondly, He Is To A Certain Degree Engaged In Its Ideological Conflicts.

We Don't Properly Discriminate. We Never Discriminate Properly When We're Dealing With Another Group And One Of The Big Problems About Religion Is That Religious People Don't Know That They Are Probably As Flagrant In These Misjudgments As Irreligious People.

Certainly, Anybody Who Says, "in The Eyes Of God," Is Pretentious.

Our Dreams Of A Pure Virtue Are Dissolved In A Situation In Which It Is Possible To Exercise The Virtue Of Responsibility Toward A Community Of Nations Only By Courting The Prospective Guilt Of The Atomic Bomb.

Ultimately Freedom Is Necessary For A Society, Because Every Despotic Society - For Instance, The Russian Society - Lives On The Basis Of A Rather Implausible Dogma - The Marxist Dogma Of World Redemption Through Communism.