"One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics."
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"Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less."
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"Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."
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"All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain."
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"I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief."
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"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
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"The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand."
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"He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others."
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"Christianity is such a silly religion."
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"There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
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"One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it."
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"We all behave as though what we think is true, is true."
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"Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly."
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"People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream."
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"In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason."
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"I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other."
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"Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour."
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."
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