"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

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"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."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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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."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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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."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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

"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."

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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."

"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."

"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."

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"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

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