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One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. ↗

— James Madison

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The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid. ↗

— William Faulkner

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It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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