"Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?"
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"How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?"
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"Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him."
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"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."
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"There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration."
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"Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it."
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"You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies."
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"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion."
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"God: a gaseous vertebrate."
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"I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology."
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"To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity"
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"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."
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"If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action."
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"God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine."
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"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
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"Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice."
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"The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind"
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"Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought."
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"Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion."
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"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
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