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" How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. "

          - Paul-Henri Thiry

" It's getting harder and harder to believe in people, let alone gods. "

          - Terry Pratchett

" If you have a sacred text that tells you how the world began, or what your relationship is between this 'Sky God' and you, it does curtail your curiosity, your sense of wanting to unwrap these mysteries. You simply say: well it's a mystery, or the mind of God, no one can read it. "

          - Ian McEwan

" When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place. "

          - Philip Roth

" What religions exist to do is to answer these two great questions: Where did we come from? and now that we are here, how should we live? And one thing we know about all religions, ...is that they are wrong. "

          - Salman Rushdie

" Faith schools are a disastrous development. They have been pretty disastrous in our past ....We've got to get over this faith school thing "

          - Howard Brenton

                  








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