Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains
Robert Green Ingersoll
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish
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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in getting only two men, and not a single woman, decent enough to enter the promised land? (Num
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Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin
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Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote
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If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise
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My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam
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Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men
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The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself
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Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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