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“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion”
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“Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking”
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“Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love”
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“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth”
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“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”
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“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness”
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“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking”
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
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“It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
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“The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
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“No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion”
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