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In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

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Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavouring to develop them.

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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

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There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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Watches may disagree, but let us not.

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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

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To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

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I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

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The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

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