Episode 164: Choosing to Believe
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The New Atheist - The Clifford Quote That James Is Saying
"It is wrong always everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence," he says. "If a belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, even though the belief be true as Clifford on the same page explains, the pleasure is a stolen one." He adds that we should guard ourselves from such beliefs as from a pestilence which may shortly master our own body and then spread to the rest of the town.
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