"Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy." — Bertrand Russell

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• To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can… — David Attenborough
• Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of… — Annie Besant
• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and… — Christopher Hitchens
• There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because… — Christopher Hitchens
• The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have… — Thomas Jefferson
• Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is… — Mark Twain
• Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a… — Martin Luther
• I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide… — Arthur C. Clarke

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