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“There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.”

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How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

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You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

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The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

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These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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God speaks through me.

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