"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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