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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but thi...more

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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My own mind is my own church.

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But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of ado...more

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if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other’s religi...more

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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more t...more

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I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to anoth...more

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Tes...more

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What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauche...more

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I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have e...more

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral ju...more

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral ju...more

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Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her cou...more

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All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.