"Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies."
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"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
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"It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God."
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"She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist."
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"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
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"Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."
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"Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"All religions have been made by men."
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"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
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"...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind."
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"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe."
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"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."
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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
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"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins."
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"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."
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"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."
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"Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love."
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