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For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that...more

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It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe...more

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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of ve...more

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that...more

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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly ...more

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In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.

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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, ...more

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A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth...more

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You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so l...more

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It is true that the modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is thanks to the generations of freethinkers, who from...more

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Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, b...more

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and t...more

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Со своей стороны, я предпочитаю онтологическое доказательство [существования Бога], космологическое доказательство и остальной старый запас аргументов...more