"It is fear that first brought gods into the world."
-- Petronious --
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"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-- Chapman Cohen --
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers, as useful."
-- Seneca --
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"Why should I allow that same god to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown his own?"
-- Bertrand Russell --
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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?"
-- Epicurus --
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"Whatever we cannot easily understand, we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues....Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
-- Edward Abbey --
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"If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood, or persuaded of afterward, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it...the life of that man is one long sin against mankind."
-- William Kingdon Clifford --
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"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists, it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money."
-- H. L. Mencken --
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"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll --
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
-- H. L. Menken --
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