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"Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live."
"He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
"At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one."
"Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message."
"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."
"I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won."
"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."
"Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren."
"The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
"I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth."
"Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another."
"I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did."
"They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think."
"My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith."
"There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores."
"Now, with God's help, I shall become myself."
"The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning."
"I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands."
"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."
"The lovers of God have no religion but God alone."
