It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge
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The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels
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Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.
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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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Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
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There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
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