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Full Idea
The Bible leaves reason absolutely free and has nothing in common with philosophy.
Gist of Idea
The Bible has nothing in common with reasoning and philosophy
Source
Baruch de Spinoza (Tractatus Theologico-Politicus [1670])
Book Ref
Cottingham,John: 'The Rationalists' [OUP 1988], p.21
A Reaction
Hm. The Bible may not contain reasoning, but it contains the fruits of reasoning, and it is obviously possible for reasoning to contradict its message.
4300 | The Bible has nothing in common with reasoning and philosophy [Spinoza] |
2918 | The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche] |
23904 | The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |