"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"We are punished by our sins, not for them."
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"The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals."
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"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
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"Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument."
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"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense."
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"Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east."
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"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
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"Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion."
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"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."
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"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit."
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"Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race"
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"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
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"The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart."
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"Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society."
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"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."
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"True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete."
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