Arthur Schopenhauer consoles Daniel Dennett.
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Schopenhauer: I liked what you wrote about God.
Dennett: Many people don’t like what I wrote. About him.
Schopenhauer: I tell you this. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Dennett: But it can be asynchronous. It is true that I am ridiculed in many places by people with faulty logic claiming if we throw away religion we throw away decent behavior. I am so violently opposed in the Bible belt I sometimes think a Christian fatwa has been issued against me. But many people come up to me saying I agree, God is a delusion.
Schopenhauer: Religion has been around for 2000 years. Thousands of heretics have been sacrificed. But the time will come and people will begin questioning why people constructed this God belief. Just as they once made graven images. Unfortunately, it just may be after you have been burned at the stake.
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