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"For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright."
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
"All neurotics seek the religious"
"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science."
"At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion."
"Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one."
"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
""As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell.""
"Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself."
"The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see."
"Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it."
"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
"Church on time, makes me party."
"[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals."
"Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it."
"Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal."
"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
