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“God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.”

Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

This book delves into the concept of pseudo-events, examining how they are created and utilized to shape public opinion and media narratives in the United States. more

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin was an influential American historian known for his research on historical writing and public knowledge. His work emphasized the connection between history and contemporary life, as well as the role of historians in shaping public consciousness. more

“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.”

Men Mind Real Reason Evil Causes Interest Darkness Ignorance Duty Morality Filled Clouds Remedy Phantoms Agnosticism Dispelling

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.”

Believe Belief Memories Atheism Incredibles Endeavor Woe Erase Agnosticism Engraved

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella

“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.”

Kind Arms Ego Miserable Refuge Helpless Superiority Sanctuary Agnosticism Incompetent Soothing

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.”

Knows Men Firsts Reason Agnosticism

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Certain Willing Program Spending Entitlement Public Life Entitlement Programs

Author:Chris Christie

“You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.”