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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

  Reza Aslan

  Definitions, Interpretation, Reasonable

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.19, Random House

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• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Fear, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive

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• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium". Book published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

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• Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Obvious, Mystic, Persons

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Religious, Fall, Hands

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• Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

  Emile Zola

  Atheist, Fall, Civilization

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• I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Death, Home, Practice

  "1984: Spring". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Faith Religion, Daylight

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheism, Libertarian, Weapons

  Thomas Jefferson (1939). “Democracy”

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• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Ignorance

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.400

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• Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Mistake, Character

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Simple, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.349

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• Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

  George Washington

  Religious, Desert, Morality

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations”, p.227

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Principles, Resistance, Refinement

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

  William Penn

  Men, God Love

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Veils, Sacred

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

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• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

  Karl Kraus

  Atheism, Society, Culture

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• I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

  Billy Wilder

  Church, Nylon, Bags

  "Fictional character: Lorraine Minosa". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  World, Honest, Evidence

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.300

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