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"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
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"As soon as you ascend to heaven in spirit, by being more spiritual and honest with yourself, you will notice that hell comes to you at the exact same time, and earth will literally feel like hell. Everyone that can't see it went on the opposite direction, from crazy to crazier. They see butterflies instead of worms and juice instead of blood, and can't smell their own rotting flesh. They went from surviving to becoming zombies. That's why I despite the vast majority of those that consider themselves spiritual. They are in fact lunatics disguised as saints."

"Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did."

"He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic."

"Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase "salvation through Christ, the Son of God."

"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
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"For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God."

"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."

"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."

"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."

"I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay."

"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."

"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
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