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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Saudis of all sorts recent having to beg princes for favors to secure services that should be a public right ↗

— Karen Elliott House

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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature. ↗

— David Hume

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Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion. ↗

— Richard Stark

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We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. ↗

— John Piper

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What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong? ↗

— Chuck Austen

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If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

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Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that of cleanliness, respectability and prudence. Religion was for those who had the time for it, a middle-class indulgence. ↗

— P.D. James

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If we talk about the living oracles and want to pay respect to them, how shall we do this? Shall we do it by never reading their words-by paying not attention to that which they say? That is a very poor way of doing. We ought to listen to their words. When we cannot hear their words, we should read them; for they are the words of the authorized servants of God. I feel that there is a great neglect among us in this respect. --CR, 1897, 38, George Q. Cannon (CR is Reports of the General Conferences of the Church) ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

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