"Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness."
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"The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
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"For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
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"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
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"He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ."
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"Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?"
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"Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again."
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"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
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"Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place."
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"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences."
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"To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand."
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"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
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"Religion is just mind control."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
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"I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church."
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"This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion."
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