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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer, where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the thunderstorm, the oceans and the underworld, fire and time and love and war; where every tree and meadow had its dryad and maenad. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion. ↗

— Alice Cooper

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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

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God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. ↗

— Sarah Palin

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An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert. ↗

— Clayton M. Christensen

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A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

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Du kennst doch bestimmt den Spruch, dass Gott die Menschen nach seinem Ebenbild erschaffen hat. Guck dich mal um! Wenn man davon ausgeht, dass Gott ein Arschloch ist, ergibt das plötzlich mächtig viel Sinn. ↗

— Marc-Uwe Kling

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That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking. ↗

— Peter Rollins

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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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