“ God is the producer of immortality; and whoever has doubts of immortality is written down as an atheist without farther trial. ”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). copy citation
Author | William James |
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Source | The Varieties of Religious Experience |
Topic | immortality writing |
Date | 1902 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/621/621-h/621-h.html |
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“which most of us would assign as the first difference which the existence of a God ought to make would, I imagine, be personal immortality. Religion, in fact, for the great majority of our own race means immortality, and nothing else. God is the producer of immortality; and whoever has doubts of immortality is written down as an atheist without farther trial. I have said nothing in my lectures about immortality or the belief therein, for to me it seems a secondary point. If our ideals are only cared for in “eternity,” I do not see why we might not be willing to resign their care to other hands than ours.”
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