Jeffrey Burton Russell Quotes

• Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Believe, Form, Tyranny

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• Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Gratitude

  Jeffrey Burton Russell (2007). “Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It”, p.132, Oxford University Press

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Civilization, Earth, Firsts

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