"There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true."
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"Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis."
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"[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion."
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"The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead."
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"The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature."
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"That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature."
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"Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?"
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"There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."
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"I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose."
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"Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61."
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"I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him."
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"God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of."
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"We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician."
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"To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat."
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"Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable."
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"Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God."
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"No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers."
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"Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life."
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"As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death."
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"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness."
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