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Category: Book Club

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NJHN Book Club books chosen for May-August 2023

Our Book Club has chosen the 4 books we’ll read and discuss on the 4th Thursdays at 7:30 PM on Zoom in May, June, July and August. Visit our Book …

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Protected: Choose NJHN Book Club selections for May-August 2023

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Protected: Choose NJHN Book Club selections for January-April 2023

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Freethought Quotes

  • “God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that's the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts. Those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts. And so, they're lies. Those are the atheists.”
    by Joseph Campbell
    Joseph Campbell: A Hero's Journey (2002 documentary)
  • “It’s dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true.”
    by Sasha Sagan
    For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
  • “How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.”
    by Charles Darwin
    The Descent of Man
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