"Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!"
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"Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred."
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"In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste."
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"In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in."
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"I acknowledge myself a unitarian"
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"It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former."
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"If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion."
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"Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe."
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"Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance."
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"The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see."
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"If the gods do evil then they are not gods."
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"What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?"
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"Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him."
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"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."
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"Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous."
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"My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves."
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"If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?"
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"It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand."
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"[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion."
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"The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary."
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