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Sherman Alexie

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

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"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."

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"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

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"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."

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Amber Hurdle

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."

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"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs."

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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."

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