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Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

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I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity? ↗

— Mark Twain

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If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude. ↗

— Stifyn Emrys

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. ↗

— John Green

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I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent. ↗

— Robert M. Price

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Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом. (Мисс Моди Эткинсон - Глазастику Финч) ↗

— Harper Lee

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As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings. ↗

— Teju Cole

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That was rather interesting,' Mercer said as he filled his coffee mug and passed the thermal carafe to John. 'What do you say for dinner? "Blessed be the serial killers, or else the devil would have no one to torment. ↗

— Lynn Viehl

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