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“Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.”

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American novelist and philosopher, known for her novels and philosophical ideas. Her works emphasize individualism, free markets, and rationalism, and have had a profound impact on politics and philosophy in the late 20th century. more

“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.”

Knows Persons Said Ideas Matter States Would Be Religion Belief Accepting Virtue Birth Adults Islam Can Not Coercion

Author:Salman Rushdie

“To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.”

Ifs Form Religion Police Agree Dissent Thought Police Dissing

Book:Step Across This Line

Source: Step Across This Line

“You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.”

Believe Seems Religion Majors Don't Believe Theme Organized Quests Organized Religion

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”

Knows Men World Wells May Reason Religion Belief Fashion Followers Deliberate Find Me Zeus

Book:Childhood’s End

Source: Childhood’s End

“There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.”

Stories Religion Divine Capacity Mercy Doctrine Officials Almighty Theologian Infant Reconcile Damnation Divine Mercy

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.”

May Might Religion Sound Theology Being True Splits

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.”

Religion Function Priests

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.”

Writing Terrible Fingers Disability Rulers Nun Handwriting Learning Disability

Author:Andrew Greeley

“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.”

Religion Nice Prove Authority Nice Things Citing

Book:Revolt in 2100

Source: Revolt in 2100

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