"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
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"How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!"
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"The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion."
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"Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant."
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"Men create the gods after their own images."
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"The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow."
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"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
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"When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense."
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"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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"What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else."
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"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
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"The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins."
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"Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."
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"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."
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"For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything."
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"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
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"Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless."
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"If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible."
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"The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false."
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"The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself."
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