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speculative hypothesis

People frequently asked him in his later years what he would say if he discovered after death that God really existed. He answered that he would simply state, "God, you never gave me enough evidence."  “As a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.”  philosopher  Sidney Hook , The Partisan Review (March 1950) His books include  The Metaphysics of Pragmatism  (1927),  Toward the Understanding of Karl Marx  (1933),  Marx and the Marxists: The Ambiguous Legacy  (1955),  Common Sense and the Fifth   Amendment  (1957),  The Quest for Being, and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism  (1961),  The Place of Religion in a Free Society  (1968),  Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life  (1974),  Marxism and Beyond  (1983) and his autobiography  Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century  (1987).  Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

superstition that hardens hearts

At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering