The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception emb… - Baron D'Holbach
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception emb…
- Baron D'Holbach
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. - Baron D'Holbach
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or kno… - Baron D'Holbach
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or kno…
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. - Baron D'Holbach
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous,… - Baron D'Holbach
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous,…
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should rea… - Baron D'Holbach
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should rea…
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. - Baron D'Holbach
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is su… - Baron D'Holbach
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is su…
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. - Baron D'Holbach
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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