sophistries

• of visionary peace planning

70:3.4The peace of Uran­tia will be pro­moted far more by in­ter­na­tional trade or­ga­ni­za­tions than by all the sen­ti­men­tal soph­istry of vi­sion­ary peace plan­ning. Trade re­la­tions have been fa­cil­i­tated by de­vel­op­ment of lan­guage and by im­proved meth­ods of com­mu­ni­ca­tion as well as by bet­ter trans­porta­tion.

• faith persists despite

101:3.117. Per­sists in the unswerv­ing be­lief in God de­spite all con­trary demon­stra­tions of logic and suc­cess­fully with­stands all other in­tel­lec­tual soph­ist­ries.

• of material philosophy

102:0.2But such is not man’s end and eter­nal des­tiny; such a vi­sion is but the cry of de­spair ut­tered by some wan­der­ing soul who has be­come lost in spir­i­tual dark­ness, and who bravely strug­gles on in the face of the mech­a­nis­tic soph­ist­ries of a ma­te­rial phi­los­o­phy, blinded by the con­fu­sion and dis­tor­tion of a com­plex learn­ing. And all this doom of dark­ness and all this des­tiny of de­spair are for­ever dis­pelled by one brave stretch of faith on the part of the most hum­ble and un­learned of God’s chil­dren on earth.