If people should laugh at religion because most religions declare that men must believe in mythologies taught by such and such a prophet, they ought to laugh more at these moderns.
In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt. "Huxley has said it", that is enough for many.
We are free from superstitions indeed!
That was a religious superstition, and this is a scientific superstition;
only, in and through that superstition came life-giving ideas of spirituality; in and through this modern superstition come lust and greed.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Jnana-Yoga, London
In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt. "Huxley has said it", that is enough for many.
We are free from superstitions indeed!
That was a religious superstition, and this is a scientific superstition;
only, in and through that superstition came life-giving ideas of spirituality; in and through this modern superstition come lust and greed.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Jnana-Yoga, London
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