"God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!"
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""God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?"
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"Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?"
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"I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed."
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"Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine."
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"The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!"
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"It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience."
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"Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness"."
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"To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!"
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"Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too."
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"Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect."
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"Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions."
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"Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so."
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"What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension."
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"I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway."
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"Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!"
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"the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart."
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"Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves."
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"You get religion as your hair turns grey."
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"Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson."
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