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• One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

  George Orwell

  Atheist, Catholic, Atheism

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Fear, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive

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• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium". Book published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

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• Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Obvious, Mystic, Persons

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Religious, Fall, Hands

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.400

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• [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Faith Religion, Daylight

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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• A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.56

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Principles, Resistance, Refinement

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  Emile Zola

  Atheist, Fall, Civilization

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• We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

  Austin O'Malley

  Car, Use, Way

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• The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Soul, Relation, Humans

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.30

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• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Firsts, Elements

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.240, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Death, Home, Practice

  "1984: Spring". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• No man's religion ever survives his morals.

  Robert South

  Men, Moral

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.422

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• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

  Billy Wilder

  Church, Nylon, Bags

  "Fictional character: Lorraine Minosa". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Shapes

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
  If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
  And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dumb, Soul, Speak

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

  Karl Kraus

  Atheism, Society, Culture

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• The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

  R. K. Milholland

  Christian, Busy, Only Time

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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