 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
According to him (Dr. Tennant ) ..., “If we press the indispensableness of the religious element in the concept of sin, and if we adopt the psychical definition of religion, then it will follow that persons, if any there be, possessing no religion -- who would confess, that is to say, to entertaining no ideas of deity or of the supernatural, and to feeling no religious sentiment of any sort -- cannot be accounted sinners at all, in the sense in which we agree to use that term, however morally evil, even from their own point of view, may be their lives."
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 7：sin
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