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Richard Whately on Religion

1787–1863 England

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The religion of the heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no belief, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth—the very demand of faith—were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.

Bacon's Essays with Annotations by Richard Whately (1857)

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