"Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system."
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"Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself."
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"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God."
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"I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest."
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"[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd."
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"Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis."
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"It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis."
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"One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics."
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"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."
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"That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence."
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"Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."
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"They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit."
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"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
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"Facts are true whether or not you believe them."
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"Religion is the pious worship of God."
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"Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]"
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"The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand."
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"Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony."
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"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is."
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"Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience."
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