What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
All religions have been made by men.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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