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There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

John Dewey

Destiny, Atheism, Unseen

John Dewey (1960). “A Common Faith”, p.7, Yale University Press

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

John Dewey

Atheism, Slavery, Burden

John Dewey (2012). “Human Nature and Conduct”, p.331, Courier Corporation

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

John Dewey

Commitment, Criticism, Atheism

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.245, University of Illinois Press

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

John Dewey

Religious, Atheism, Belief

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.

John Dewey

Differences, People, Atheism

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.403, Indiana University Press