Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
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The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidelsRobert Ingersoll
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action.
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Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand injustice everywhere hypocrisy at the altar venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
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We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
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Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak
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