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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.…
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
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If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,…
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What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back…
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,…
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..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely…
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The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with…
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