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The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those p...more

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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infini...more

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Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains becaus...more

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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a tota...more

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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition wh...more

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It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you wou...more

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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His brea...more

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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her ce...more

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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always purit...more