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...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

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Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are. ↗

— Tim Kreider

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I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say ↗

— Ronnie Shakes

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By linking something to race or religion, politicians distract Malaysians from the core issue while also garnering support from those whose identities depend heavily on their racial or religious identities - meaning most Malaysians. ↗

— Brian Yap

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But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

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No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

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Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ↗

— Randy Elrod

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Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one. ↗

— Randy Elrod

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L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle est d'un même mouvement un retour sur Soi et sur l'Autre considérés ensemble, mais l'habitude d'une relation à sens unique depuis cinq siècles n'autorise pas l'inversion de cette relation a produire les mêmes effets. ↗

— Jean Copans

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