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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
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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 sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy, it is the negation of Christianity."
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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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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed."
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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
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"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
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