"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
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"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
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"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."
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"When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators."
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"The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate."
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"If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian."
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"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."
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"The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith."
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"Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?"
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"If there is a supreme being, he's crazy."
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"Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . ."
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"I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart."
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"True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting."
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"They have hijacked my religion."
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"God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch."
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"When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork."
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"Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion."
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"Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world."
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