"Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems."
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"Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism."
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"What can I hope when all is right?"
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"What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence."
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"Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!"
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"All Chaos was once yer kingdom; verily, held ye dominion over the entire Pentaverse, but today ye was sore afraid in dark coners, nooks, and sink holes."
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"Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute."
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"... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism."
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"God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist."
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"I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science."
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"God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it."
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"It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour."
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"A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!"
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"For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing."
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"Atheism is too theological."
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"The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world."
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"In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there was no resistance to it. When they tried the same thing in the 60s it instantly collapsed because people simply laughed at it so they couldn't do it. Even a dictatorship can't do everything it wants. It's got to have some degree of popular support."
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"The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort."
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"I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct."
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"One does not kill by anger but by laughter."
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