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"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."
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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 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."
"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."
"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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"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."
"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."
"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."
"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles."
"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."
"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."
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