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"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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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."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science
"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
Education
"The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great."
Gratitude
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Death
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
Books
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
Technology
"Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean."
Mystery
"Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers."
Fantasy
"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion."
Literature
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