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August 21, 2008
a god common to all mankind
When nations at war each declare that they have God on their side, the deity in question thus becoming the national god of paganism, whereas the God they imagine they are evoking is a God common to all mankind, the mere vision of Whom, could all men but attain it, would mean the immediate abolition of war.
Bergson - The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Posted by amin at August 21, 2008 2:14 AM