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23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |
Full Idea: The essence of religion is a conviction that because some things are of infinite value most are profoundly unimportant. | |
From: Clive Bell (Art [1913], II.I) | |
A reaction: The aspect of religion which most worries atheists like Nietzsche. You can end up with a rather cool and detached view of genocide, if you really believe that worldly matters are unimportant. Do souls in heaven worry about the next life after that? |