The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. - Joseph McCabe

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We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Joseph McCabe

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

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Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.

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