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Ideas for Herodotus, Joseph Joubert and Michael J. Loux

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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

8102	We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert]
	Full Idea: We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love.
	From: Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1801)
	A reaction: This seems to be rather true at the present time, when a wave of anti-religious books is sweeping through our culture. Presumably this remark used to be true of ancient paganism, but it died away. Christianity, though, is very personal.

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

1513	The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]
	Full Idea: The Egyptians were the first to claim that the soul of a human being is immortal, and that each time the body dies the soul enters another creature just as it is being born.
	From: Herodotus (The Histories [c.435 BCE], 2.123.2)