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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. It is by…
- If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
- 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…
- People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
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