You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode 110 of atheistically speaking with your

host Thomas Smith. Okay so we are going to finish the Spinoza or at least there might be more Spinoza but this this

particular reading of Spinoza from the portable atheist that we had on Monday.

Now there's not much left there's's a bit left, but not as much as on Monday.

So we're left with plenty of time for some commentary, which you may already see coming,

or you might not, either way there is plenty of room for commentary

so there will be no shortage of that but let's pretend none of that happened and we're just going to finish our portable

atheists are delightful reading. It's a very fun segment to do. I really like it but

like it. But like I said it takes a lot of prep and stuff so it's it's I do not take it

lightly. okay we are about halfway through

this reading I guess I don't need to tell you where we are because I'm reading it

who cares so when we left off Spinozer, Spinozer had just said, oh we had quoted Curtis who was, and it's not spelled like

Curtis, it's spelled like Curtisous so that should solve that should clean that up for you clear that up

the mob has no ruler more potent than superstition if someone wants to make that into a meme for me, I'd be happy to, you know,

retweet it and post it and it'll probably get some traffic. That's C-U-R-T-I-U-S, courteous.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Make that bad boy and I'll share it and you can put, I'll give you credit or something.

Come on. Anyway. you can put I'll give you credit or something come on anyway and he had said that and now he

says oh there's a great quote but it's a bit it's a bit meandering so I'll just summarize it. He essentially says how else but with

this dogma and you know mystery and all that that we've kind of described a minute ago

and meaning in last and Monday's episode.

How else but with this dogma and mystery could you get people to fight for slavery as well as they fight to be free, which is what they do.

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