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"Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ."
"The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done."
"Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name."
"If the gods do evil then they are not gods."
"Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him."
"The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had."
"The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed."
"For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
"But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?"
"[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion."
"The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary."
"A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts."
"The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular."
"Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel."
"It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties."
"Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis."
"Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart."
"If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing."
"The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever."
"The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance."
