I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't.. Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe.. Same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same.. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself..
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Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
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The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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