"I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life."
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"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them."
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"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
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"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?"
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"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
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"To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is."
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"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
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"In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable."
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"The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket."
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"I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven"
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"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
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"Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast."
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"It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."""
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"I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world."
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"Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side."
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"The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them."
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"By night an atheist half-believes in God."
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"Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they're not necessarily going to anybody's church. It's not like the world is becoming hardcore, Richard Dawkins-atheist, but people are looking to sort of synthesize science - people love science, especially the millennials."
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"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."
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