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"Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains."
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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."

"People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it."

"Blind faith is not real religion my friend."

"The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false, the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless."

"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."

"I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves."

"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."

"Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith."

"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."

"I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories."
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"The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it."


"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."


"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."


"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."


"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."


"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
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