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"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
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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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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Courage
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
Life
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
Humor
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
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"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
Religion
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
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