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Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

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A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

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But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be f...more

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It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; i...more

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What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By what route do other...more

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One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. …[This] conv...more

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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That...more

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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have...more