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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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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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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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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
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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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