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"Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

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

"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."

"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."

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

"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."

"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
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"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."

"So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste."

"He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others."

"Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not, the whole point of conversations was flow."

"O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!"

"Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character."

"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase."
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