This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves
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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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