Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing
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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.Robert Ingersoll
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise
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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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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb
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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,
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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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