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I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the mist...more

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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do ...more

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People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw.

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The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. ...more

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To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

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And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my f...more

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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

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They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and thei...more