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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, ...more

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If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of ...more

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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unr...more

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I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philo...more

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A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to...more

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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and tha...more

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Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of...more

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the cent...more