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• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

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  Practice, Atheism, Influence

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• It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

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  People, Doe, World

  E. Haldeman-Julius (1995). “The Militant Agnostic”

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• Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

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  Men, Atheism, Superstitions

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• Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

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  Mean, Church, Systematic

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• "¿Pagarías impuestos a Dios?" pregunta un defensor de la exención de impuestos a las iglesias. Bueno, si hubiera un Dios debería poder pagarse sus propios gastos y mantener su propio negocio. Si no, debería hacer como otros hombres de negocios y cerrar su negocio.

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  Men, Support, Church

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• A good title is a work of a genius!

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  Titles, Genius

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• A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' soberly and devoutly. A fanatic, with bloodshot mind, will interpret 'God's will' fanatically. Men of extreme, illogical views will interpret 'God's will' in eccentric fashion. Kindly, charitable, generous men will interpret 'God's will' according to their character.

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  Fashion, Character, Men

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• Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.

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  Home, Dwelling, Community

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• Las influencias que han elevado la raza a un nivel moral más alto son la educación, la libertad, el ocio, la tendencia humanizadora de una vida mejor provista y más interesante. En una palabra, la ciencia y el liberalismo... han logrado las mismas cosas por las que la religión reclama el crédito.

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  Race, Interesting, Credit

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

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  Believe, Church, Taxation

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• To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

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  Mankind, Being True, Interest

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• Los mártires han sido sinceros. Y también los tiranos. Los sabios han sido sinceros. Y también los necios.

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  Sabio, Miedo, Hombres

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• La Iglesia no ha aportado nada a la civilización. Ha progresado algo, y se ha vuelto un poco más decente, como reflejo de los movimientos de civilización que han tenido lugar fuera de la iglesia y normalmente frente a la fuerte oposición de la iglesia. Pero la Iglesia siempre se ha resistido al proceso de civilización. Ha luchado hasta la última zanja, por medios justos y sucios, para preservar tanto como ha podido los vestigios de la teología antigua y medieval, con todas las moralidades pueriles y costumbres duras y estilos medievales de creencia.

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  Strong, Taken, Mean

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• No te fíes de nuestra palabra. Lee la Biblia. Lea las declaraciones de los predicadores. Y comprenderás que Dios es el personaje más desesperado, el peor villano de toda la ficción.

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  Character, Our Words, Fiction

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• It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

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  Civilization, Cities, Firsts

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• To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

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  Believe, Atheism, Would Be

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• Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.

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  Attitude, Exercise, Men

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• As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.

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  Eye, Men, Atheism

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• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

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  Men, Atheism, Slave

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• Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

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  Atheist, Church, Answers

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