"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."

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"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."

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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."

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"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."

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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."

Angelina Grimke, American Activist

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"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."

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"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

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"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."

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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."

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