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• Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
• Both allowed the very young a certain exemption from the adult rules of religious belief and behavior; spiritually speaking, for rationalist Unitarians and evangelicals, children were a different order of moral being than adults.
• While there is no question that his verbiage is infuriating at times, I think it's a mistake to see him as nothing but an anarchic, anti-rationalist nihilist.
• Instead, a rationalistic view of reality prevails over an affectivity which is weak and ultimately unpersuasive. High school anthology: "The Cold Equations"
• That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.
• Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist in the 20th century but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
• Such an irrationalist epidemic infecting religion would turn it from a worship of truth to a worship of emotion and a cultivation of certain emotional states... Knowledge Spillovers from Enterpreneurship - The Austrian Economists
• His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
• He was a strong opponent of the rationalistic tendencies which had infected some dialecticians of his times, and often warned his pupils against such as extol their dialectics above the teachings of the Church and the testimony of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• On a different plane, Gramsci himself had not been spared the influence of some irrationalist trends.