Letters to Eugenia Or a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices
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If, then, we cannot yield them a real belief, what we call faith can be nothing more than a blind and irrational adherence to a system devised by priests, whose crafty self- ishness has made them careful from the earliest infancy to fill our tender minds with prepossessions in favor of doctrines which they judged favorable to then* own interests. Interested, however, as they are in the opinions which they endeavor to force upon us as truth, is it possible for these priests to believe them thems...elves? Unquestionably not the thing is out of nature. They are men like our- 14 158 LETTERS TO EUGENIA.
selves, furnished with the same faculties, and neither they nor we can be convinced of any thing which lies equally beyond the scope of us all. If they possessed an additional sense, we should perhaps allow that they might comprehend what is unin- telligible to us ; but as we clearly see that they have no intellectual privileges above the rest of the species, we are compelled to conclude, that their faith, like the faith of other Christians, is a blind acquiescence in opinions derived, without exami- nation, from their predecessors ; and that they must be hypocrites when they pretend to believe in doctrines of the truth of which they cannot be con- vinced, since these doctrines have been shown to be destitute of that degree of evidence which is necessary to impress the mind with a feeling of their probability, much less of their certainty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If, then, we cannot yield them a real belief, what we call faith can be nothing more than a blind and irrational adherence to a system devised by priests, whose crafty self- ishness has made them careful from the earliest infancy to fill our tender minds with prepossessions in favor of doctrines which they judged favorable to then* own interests. Interested, however, as they are in the opinions which they endeavor to force upon us as truth, is it possible for these priests to believe them thems...elves? Unquestionably not the thing is out of nature. They are men like our- 14 158 LETTERS TO EUGENIA.
selves, furnished with the same faculties, and neither they nor we can be convinced of any thing which lies equally beyond the scope of us all. If they possessed an additional sense, we should perhaps allow that they might comprehend what is unin- telligible to us ; but as we clearly see that they have no intellectual privileges above the rest of the species, we are compelled to conclude, that their faith, like the faith of other Christians, is a blind acquiescence in opinions derived, without exami- nation, from their predecessors ; and that they must be hypocrites when they pretend to believe in doctrines of the truth of which they cannot be con- vinced, since these doctrines have been shown to be destitute of that degree of evidence which is necessary to impress the mind with a feeling of their probability, much less of their certainty.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach to read onlineMoreLess
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