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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?’ Psalms 27 The Bible

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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

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The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.

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The mentality of fundamentalism is by no means an exclusive property of orthodoxy. Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one’s own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self-security but not self-criticism. The mentality of fundamentalism comes into being whenever a believer is unwilling to trace the effects of original sin in his own life. And where is the believer who is wholly delivered from this habit?

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The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

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The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.- Benjamin Franklin

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.- Richard Francis Burton

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The neer to the church, the further from God.

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The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.

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The only objection against the Bible is a bad life.

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The only time anyone’s admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they’re better than me.

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The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.’ Eric Hoffer

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The pope is dead tired and should be left in peace. Anyone who tries to approach him, even to wish him well, is committing a sin.

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The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

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The priest is Christ


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