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Steven Pinker

"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."

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"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero."

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"Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God."

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"One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine."

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"Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the doctrine of grace means as messed up their false worldview should make them."

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"Doctrines, no matter which path of human endeavor they come from, must serve the humans, not the humans serving the doctrines. "Love thy neighbor - is a great doctrine, but more importantly, it is an unparalleled piece of magnificent human teaching " as such, whoever practices it, becomes a better human, a real human. On the other hand, there is another doctrine that says "God may purify the believers and destroy the disbelievers " now would you, as a real conscientious human being, consider this one as a great beneficial doctrine or teaching for humanity? Far from being great, doctrines like this are the ones that compel the human society to forget its innate humanism."

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"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false."

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"Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future."

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"A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so."

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