"In regard to the terrors as well as the superstitions and immoralities of religion, it will not do to urge that they are due only to the imperfections of the men who professed the various religions. If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
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"The dark side of religion." in: Walter Kaufmann (ed). Religion from Tolstoy to Camus. (1964), p. 294
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Morris Raphael Cohen
Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 – January 28, 1947) was an American judicial philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. This union coalesced into the "objective relativism" fermenting at Columbia University before and during the early twentieth-century interwar period.
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