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" Religion occupies a most ambiguous position; ...discredited as irrational, yet dominant over the collective mind; almost totally uncomprehended even by its purveyors, yet forced upon each succeeding generation of children as the very bread of life; holding its place by the sheer force of custom. "

          - Alvin Boyd Kuhn

" It is theism, theology, that has wrenched man out of his relationship with the world, isolated him, made him into an arrogant self-centered being who exalts himself above nature "

          - Ludwig Feuerbach

" Religion is the general theory of this world, ...and its universal basis of consolation and justification. "

          - Karl Marx

" The celibacy, the nuns, the monks, the priesthood: This is not natural and normal. For me to be called 'a pervert', by these extraordinary sexual dysfunctional people. I don't think Human History has ever had more. "

          - Stephen Fry

" I think there is no reason whatsoever to think that demonizing homosexuals, stoning adulterers, soliciting the murder of novelist and cartoonist, or worshiping suicide-bombers; constitutes a valid strategy for maximizing human wellbeing. "

          - Sam Harris

" The absurdity is that man created god, and then became his invention's slave. "

          - Jose Saramago

                  









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