"There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more."
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"A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China."
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"Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning."
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"It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it."
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"Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist."
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"Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people."
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"Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds."
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"The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence."
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"Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist."
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"The world is continuous flux and is impermanent."
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"One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural."
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"To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege."
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"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
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"Fear first created the gods."
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"Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth."
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"Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity."
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"The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong."
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"To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master."
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"Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing."
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