"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." "Superstition, born of paganism and adopted by Judaism, invested the Christian Church from earliest times. All the fathers of the Church, without exception, believed in the power of magic. The Church always condemned magic, but she always believed in it: she did not excommunicate sorcerers as madmen who were mistaken, but as men who were really in communication with the devil." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "When he that speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither of them understand what is meant, that is metaphysics." "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." ~Voltaire _____________________ "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." ~Benjamin Franklin _____________________ "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution." "In no instance have the churches been the guardians of the liberties of the people." ~James Madison _____________________ "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." "All religions have been made by men." "As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is not proper to oppose them." ~Napoleon Bonaparte _____________________ "No man who has ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry." "The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception." ~Edgar Allen Poe
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