"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
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"Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason."
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"None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will."
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"One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
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"Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul."
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"There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't."
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"A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification."
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"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
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"Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand."
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"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
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"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
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"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
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"I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations."
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"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it."
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"For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men."
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"I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived."
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"Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority."
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"The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line."
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"I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian."
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