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H. L. Mencken

"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly."

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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."

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"For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary."

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"But who is Aslan? Do you know him?""Well-he knows me," said Edmund. "He is the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, who saved me and saved Narnia."

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"Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death is unendurably as before it."

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"Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature."

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"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

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"Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only."

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"Religion is the product of organizations called churches."

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"A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave."

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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

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