"The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them."
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". . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible."
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"Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs."
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"I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged."
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"I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians."
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"The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
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"I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion"
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"To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal."
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"The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary."
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"I regard belief as a form of brain damage."
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"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
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"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit."
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"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."
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"My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little."
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"Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation."
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"The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us."
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"One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense."
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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."
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