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Atheism is too theological.

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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

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Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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No one ever dies an atheist.

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

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It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

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In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.

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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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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

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

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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

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If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

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