"Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious."
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"There are most certainly two distinguishable kinds of truths, “truths of reason” and “truths of fact” . By his resort to his daimon Socrates added the class of “truths of self,” personal truths."
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