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Scott Adams

"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."

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"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."

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Donna Grant

"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

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Donna Grant

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

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"The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."

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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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