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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted read more
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and
true religion.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that read more
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm
A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on read more
A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]
It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches read more
It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.