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Atheism, music and civilisation.(Religion)

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| July 01, 2007 | Monk, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

... everywhere I saw how readily men construct fables in order to avoid looking reality in the face. The invention of an afterlife would not matter so much were it not purchased at so high a price: disregard of the real hence willful neglect of the only world there is. While religion is often at variance with immanence, with man's inherent nature, atheism is in harmony with the earth--life's other name.

--Michel Onfray, The Atheist Manifesto (2005)

Who are they who fill wells with earth? They are without doubt those who put an earthly and fleshly understanding on the Law and block up its spiritual and mystical meaning, so that they neither themselves ...

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